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Seconds later cries of 'Strike' filled the bowling alley.

That'll certainly be a help around the home

It was Murata Boy's first time without stabilisers

"Look Murata Dad - no stabilizers!"

Another day, another dollar... cast member rides home after a day filming new Smash ad.

Easy Androider

The UK version jumps red lights and rides on pavements.

Sorry Pendragon - your stabilisers at no.3 wasn't shown when I did no.4!!
Great minds and all!

Brain the size of a planet and all they get me to do is ride a bicycle.

Just get on the back. This bike can carry at least two.

Japan unveils its latest robot - Robo-ris Johnson

Murata Dad was cross when his boy wanted to do a wheelie, but then he realised, Murato Boy had never been taught 'Learn to walk before you run'....

But I wanted something to help me with the cleaning, Darling

Are you sure this isn't a rerun of Tomorrow's World from the 1960's?

He's good, but he''ll never pass his cycling proficiency test

In answer to the world population boom, Japan launches its new 'population shrinking' programme and plans to have 'shrunk' most of its country by 2015

The hardest part in creating the first robotic cycle courier was teaching him to cyle through red lights and on the pavement.

We call her Daisy ... and she sings too

The hardest part in creating the first robotic cycle courier was teaching him to cycle through red lights and on the pavement.

*spelling amendment*

We'd enter him in the Tour de France, but we're worried the pavé might damage his circuits

It looks good, but where are we going to fit the pizzas?

Robot looter nicks compact fridge.

The stigs son found alive and well

Fly! Fly my pretty......

Japan had already entered him in the Tour de France as C3PO Armstrong

Only Japan could develop a robot that suffers from punctures

And, if C3PO will bend over, we can use him as a bicycle rack

And this model has a quad bike core processor

It may be slower, but it has more intelligence than Mark Cavendish

The JOB AD's
Tiny policemen required for miniature version of robo-cop in toytown II

? the future remake of E.T.

Murata is apparently Japanese for 'useless'

Launching the new byte-cycle

Robot wars goes retro

small, yet beautifully formed

"The Knees.... The terrible knees!!!!"

Woody didn't much like his new space-cowboy suit

Engineers say he's almost there but comes a cropper if he tries to bounce down shopping precinct steps on his back wheel.

...it was a dream 3P0 never thought could ever come true, yet here he was (with his own legs!) riding a bike and feeling the wind in his face

Not only is he designed to be a chess grandmaster, but he can make his own way to the venue too

It's also available with a dual core processor ... but you'd need a tandem for that

As monster movies went, the script was ok: but the special effects were pants.....

Paperboys were safe for a little while longer as murata boy still couldn't manage the Sunday Supplements.

starship daytripper

BT are looking at this as a backup to solve their broadband network problems.

Apple unveil the Veloc-iPede

But even as this model was being demonstrated, rumours were rife of a model twice as powerful being developed by Tandem Computers.

the boffins are still working on a tandem version so that Murata girl can ride out with her man...

Mark Cavendish : beneath the legend

The designers Christened their creation Bot Model Ten, but everybody shortened this to BMX

124 mega-bikes of pro-cycling speed

he was in trouble, he was late... as he had promised Murata mummy and daddy that he would be home by 5 o'clock!

Conrad Murray brings out his next witness...

That's funny, it looked bigger on eBaY

The SMASH robots needed no second asking when approached by Halfords.

Easy Rider, the Tron years.

And we've programmed him not to ride in the street at his mummy's request

Finally, the answer to Lance Armstrong

Velo-drone.

new use found for old compact discs

In the face of budget cuts, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ welcomes new tea boy

Unfortunately, Murata Boy was find for cycling whilst Smash'd

Japan launches new recycling campaign

The biggest problem to date is finding playing cards small enough for him to put in the wheels

It was 9.27, and the Millennium Falcon was due to take-off in only three minutes!

Hasbro were keen to get their 'Mark Cavendish' Transformer in the shops for Christmas.

Must..peddle...faster...

Spinal Tap curse strikes again:
" = inches
' = feet

He was guaranteed to win the Tour de France with that jet pack on his back!

Life Sized Robot launched by Giant Man

Murata Boy was ecstatic. He rode it around the living room for hours and never even bothered unwrapping his other presents.

I bet it still cycles through red lights!

Unfortunately. he later failed a drugs test when testing positive for WD40.

So that's what M.U Ratboy, Gary Neville, looks like without the bumfluff

It'll go really fast if you put your metal to the pedal

Tiny cyber super hero, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Appliance Boy takes to his spin-cycle.

all I did was ask for a slight cost of living increase - I thought On Your Bike mate was a little harsh!

Daisy wheel, Daisy wheel, give me your answer do....

In the next phase, we set him loose in the city bicycle lanes to train him on evasive manoeuvers.

Of course, when it's finished, it will look like he's carrying a box of Bran Flakes

"Pick on someone your own size"

I know I said our funding for a bicycle courier was being cut, but just how big a package can he carry?!

A puncture kit will be included in the next release.

In protest over energy consumption at the show, some delegates chose to cycle home

Poor Murata Boy had been hoping for a Maserati

Contestant reduces size at BM-X-Factor-y

Kryten a bike

Initial experiments using a penny-farthing had been a disaster

Richard Hammond insists his new bike is tested first before he rides it.

The work to develop a cycling robot had all been in vain, as the contestants in the Triathlon all shorted out in the swimming event

It was Gulliver's dream to persuade the Lilliputians to abandon their cars for more carbon friendly transport.

Theresa may say that he can't be deported because of his pet robot, but Ken Clark couldn't possibly agree.

Unfortunately, by the time the miniaturised paper boy had been perfected most people had taken to reading the news online.

Lord Tebbit steals the show in Manchester with the relaunch of his new, improved, Onyorbikeabot

The new iPed

Transformers 4: Rise of the Congestion Charge

And he can be programmed to seek out fat bottomed girls...

Objects in the rear view camera may be closer than they appear

Sadly, Murata Boy was always late, as he could never see the clock on his stomach

Steve Hoi