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.

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 is one of more than two dozen robots Takahashi designed. He said he used the one-foot-tall, two-pound humanoids for his project (which he named "100 Robi") ...

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.