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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HPR (Hyannis Port Research), provider of advanced capital markets infrastructure (CMI) technologies, announced the launch of Omnibot, a first-of-its-kind networking device that integrates market ...