[Ramin assadollahi] has been busy rebuilding and improving an Omnibot 5402, and the last piece of hardware he wanted to upgrade was some LED matrix eyes and a high quality Raspberry Pi camera for ...

Whirring and whining its way onto store shelves this July, the ¥31,290 Omnibot 2007 will be, the makers say, the smallest bipedal robot in the world. At only 16.5 cm high (about half an inch) and ...

Last week, I wrote an essay about chatbots growing up to become ominbots, conversational entities that represent brands everywhere. Omnibots are the future of branding. But they have to be crafted ...

Japanese toy maker Takara Tomy is showing off a ¥31,500 (about $400), 4 x 6-inch robot dog called Omnibot I-SODOG. Japanese toy maker Takara Tomy is showing off a ¥31,500 (about $400), 4 x 6-inch ...

A remote control Omnibot 2000 robot offers children a cup of soda at FAO Schwarz in New York on Nov. 30, 1985. The Omnibot 2000, built by Japanese toy company TOMY, was a hot gift item, though a steep ...

There were many toy robots back in the 80s that were — frankly — underwhelming by today’s standards. Back then, any old thing that rolled around with some blinking lights would impress, but the bar is ...

When I was a young whippersnapper, in-between cleaning chimneys and begging for scraps of festering meat and stale bread on street corners (there was food at home, I just enjoyed the human interaction ...

A bearded man stands before you. He is dressed entirely in black, sporting a polo neck, tight blazer, and a silver chain. He is not, you realize, a Blackpool hypnotist but, in fact, head of innovation ...