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Tomy releases Air Guitar playing i-Sobot Robot Details
Jul 20 2007, 1:30pm CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Japanese toy maker Tomy announces details about their world's smallest humanoid robot i-Sobot. Even the Guinness book of records recognizes i-Sobot as the world's smallest humanoid robot in mass production.
Tomy announced the tiny i-Sobot toy robot in January. Today the company revealed pricing and shipping dates.
Tomy will start shipping i-Sobot in Japan on October 25th for 29,800 Yen (~$245).
The i-SOBOT can be controlled via a remote. The remote features an LCD display to select special actions like hula dancing (a robot trick pioneered by Asimo in 2004) or air guitar playing. The Omnibot17u i-Sobot supports over 200 action patterns.
Tomy partnered with Sanyo to equip the i-Sobot with the environmental friendly rechargeable Eneloop batteries.
i-Sobot measures 100×165×67mm and weighs 350g.
If and when Tomy releases i-Sobot outside of Japan is not known yet. Japanese Gadget exporters like AudioCubes will have us covered anyway.
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Luigi Lugmayr
Luigi is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years
experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting
world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into
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