Video footage of i-SOBOT, the world’s smallest mass produced humanoid robot, in a no holds barred battle up against Godzilla:

While many celebrate the triumphant arrival of Takara/Tomy’s tiny humanoid robot upon American shores, a disturbing development comes with it. All across the USA, i-SOBOT fight clubs have been forming. These clubs have only one dark purpose; to pit hapless i-SOBOT robots against wild, primitive and aggressive creatures in caged death matches where the audience wagers on who will live and who will die! RobotsRule managed to get live video of one of those matches and several tragic photos too.

Check out i-SOBOT Fight Club: The Shocking Truth! for more pics and info.

Thanks to Robert Oschler at Robots Rule!

The Roboco robot pet from Tomy is now available at AudioCubes for $17.

This little square robot dog (or cat, whichever you prefer) is the new Tamagotchi. Roboco acts just like your pet. It eats, sleeps, needs attention (a little patting on the head will do) poops and gets sick too. When it’s happy (just pat it twice on the head), Roboco will sing you a little tune. Don’t ignore it or it’ll get angry at you. Reacts to sound… Collect all 6 and see them behave with their own unique character.

Here’s a short commercial for the tiny robot pet:

Roboco is available in blue, dark blue, green, pink, white or yellow.
Here’s TakaraTomy’s Japanese demo website for the Roboco robot.

This official Tomy/Takara i-SOBOT video shows the tiny talented humanoid robot doing flips, talking, and gives a brief overview of several of its features:

In other i-SOBOT news the official i-SOBOT web site now has some of the Japanese web pages up; still waiting on the English language pages. Also, Amazon has changed their quoted expected delivery date for preorders from October 22 to October 10 to 24. This may be a sign that the robot will ship earlier than previously expected.

Thanks to Robert Oschler, Pleo Dinosaur and Robots Dreams.