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There are one million industrial robots around the world (as of Dec 2008), and Japan has the highest density with 295 robots for every 10,000 manufacturing workers.
Singapore and Korea are second and third respectively on the chart, but significantly behind Japan in numbers. Illustration by Mike Vella, more on IEEE.
Takara Tomy and Sanyo Electric held a press conference on July 20 to introduce Tomy’s bipedal humanoid robot, the i-SOBOT, which has already been certified as “the smallest humanoid robot in production” by Guinness World Records…
The 165mm-high robot is capable of recognising voice commands, and can ‘speak’ & respond to hundreds of words and phrases. It can also perform pre programmed actions, has over 90 types of sound effect and able to play five songs.
i-SOBOT’s retail price is about ¥31,290 (~USD260) apiece. It’s expected to go on sale in the US and Japan this October, and in Europe in early 2008.
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