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.

He said he used the one-foot-tall, two-pound humanoids for his project (which he named "100 Robi") to demonstrate that robots could be produced in large numbers at relatively low cost.

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 ...

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.