A weekly magazine in Japan comes with robot parts to let subscribers build their own Robi robot. ... where readers assembled a ROBO-XERO hobby robot kit (also sold separately).

Designed by Japanese engineer and University of Tokyo professor Tomotaka Takahashi, the 35-cm tall, 1kg toy shown here is Robi the robot. He has a vocabulary of 270 Japanese words and can ...

Robi, a humanoid robot that can chat and control your TV, will be available in Hong Kong later this month, its fifth market after Japan, Italy, Taiwan and the U.K.

This robot walks, talks and listens to you. Judging from the number of people that gathered around our desk when we started Robi the robot up, everyone seems to have a fascination with automatons ...

Based on the existing Robi robot kit, Kibo has been enhanced with Japanese language recognition technology courtesy of Toyota, which will allow Wakata to communicate with it and send replies back ...

The Kibo Robot Project’s “robot astronaut” Kirobo will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) on August 4. In what may not be the most historic event in space exploration, ...