Dingbot is a fast travelling robot who bumps into walls and obstacles. He chatters. He turns his head. He speeds off in another direction! He carries his own floor plan in his poseable arms. He's a funny robot who's slowly learning the meaning of walls.
Dingbot is said to have been inspired by the alien from the movie E.T.
Dingbot can be seen in the movie Aliens, repainted and mounted upside-down on the ceiling, disquised as a smoke detector.
A small robot inspired by Dingbot with missiles instead of arms can be seen in the video-game Alien: Isolation.
Despite the Japanese version OMS-B being renamed to Dingbot for the global market, the robot's sticker still says "MY ROBOT OMS-B".
This Dingbot was the first robot I restored in 2021 through 3D-printing by CAD modelling replacement tires that were 3D-printed from flexible gray rubber filament.
The 3D-models of these replacement tires can be downloaded from the Procyon Robotics Thingiverse account.
The full restoration of Dingbot can be seen in my Robot Restoration YouTube channel.