Creative Hardware
A 1984 Robot Butler Finally Gets the Brain It Was Promised
Omnibot Reborn pairs a restored 1984 Tomy Omnibot with Ring-O, a companion module built with Placitech carrying a Raspberry Pi 5, a Sony IMX500 AI camera and an OLED eye. The original robot still drives itself using its own 1980s audio-tone control system, now triggered wirelessly over Bluetooth instead of cassette tape.