Tomy Verbot breakdow, refurbish, and retrobrite 

I used to gaze wishfully at the Omnibot in the Toys R Us display cabinet, but I wasn't upset when my parents bought me home a Verbot for my birthday instead. Looks insane to dismantle, but watching this brought back many happy childhood memories of this toy. Mine was just as disobedient! Another excellent restoration, thank you for the video.

Where were you all my life!!! All my bots now work as I understand how they work thru your videos!! Many thanks!!!

Ahh memories of arguing with that robot. "Oh come on I said stop!"

@RandiRain - a massive thank you for putting this video together. I’ve only just started collecting those charming little Tomy Robots and purchased my VerBot non working. After watch king your video I could see that it had power but wasn’t making the noise. I watched your video to help with dismantling and putting back together I was successful is getting my VerBot back together again. I don’t think I would have been able to get it all back together without your video guidance. Love the others you’ve done and trying to catch up on the other repairs!!

Just bought a pile of parts that is supposed to be a complete Verbot. Trying to figure it out. And this video has already been a huge help figuring out where various parts go. I'll be tinkering with it tonight after work. Let's hope I can make it work. If not it'll still look cool on my shelf with my other robots.

I love this video. I had this toy when I was in first or second grade. Just found it again after all these years. Still have the book.

I just found your channel recently and I love it !

OMGWTFBBQ. I am *SO GLAD* I never took mine apart to see how it works! I did eventually connect the remote to my Apple II and wrote a simple "programming language" to control Verbot. Worked a lot better than a human voice!

Really cool to see Verbot's interior wiring and to see such skill fixing it. Verbot has a cool design, though the voice functions were a challenge, along with the fast battery drain.

I had one of these as a kid, and had great fun with it. Never knew it was so complicated though! I bought a broken one on eBay which I'll be having some fun with :) Thanks for the video, it helped in showing me what to expect as I disassembled it!

I got one for Christmas in the 80s. I was young and I couldn't get it to work much. I tried like crazy to get it to do commands.

Wow! Great job. So fun to see how this “high tech” of my childhood worked underneath.

Yeah, Tomy... Whoa! Crazy stuff!

I am SO GLAD I found your channel

I have two used verbots and neither will start. The sensor pad works, but the motor doesn't start. Im so nervous opening these things! I really love watching your videos, thank you!!

Sounds like you're in a really good mood in this video! Love the complexity of the gears I wonder what their system was for designing things like this back in the day.

Just received mine today that I need to refurb and up pops this video. Is your bulb in the head not working, or is it just the video? I thought the eyes and mouth were supposed to light up. As for the 9V battery, it was likely there to provide a backup for the RAM which would allow it to remember commands. It has a 1Kx4bit (2114) SRAM chip on board. That SRAM is pretty power hungry, though, so the 9V battery probably didn't last very long and they decided it wasn't worth it. Before I put it all back together, I will explore re-enabling that function.

- Robot STOP ! - You are talking to Me ? ... WOW ! Vocal remote command (in 1984 ? ! ) AND in other side, one DC motor and lot of smart mecanical sets of gears O.o :D

Love love love this video!

Love it!

@RandiRain - Have you ever found a solution for the hands all the way down sensor? It's the one located behind the control panel on the left when looking at the bot. Normally it's closed when the hands are up, but open when at the lowest position. Many people stored it for years with hands down and the copper leaf is stuck open (so telling it to lower it hands doesn't work as the CPU thinks is already at the bottom) Trying to bend the copper leafs back is iffy at best. :(

I just bought a non working Verbot from E-bay. This Verbot take a 9 volt battery in bottom of it's base. I took it apart and it has a bright metal module on the back of it. I didn't see this model in your Verbot refurbish video. I have no idea what the it does. I'm going to try to get this bot working using your video as a guide. Love your videos, Thanks

I am interested in buying and refurbishing one of these from eBay. Was the disassembly only so you could bleach the plastic parts or was it necessary to access the motor to get it running? And did you not need to change any components on the circuit board? Thanks so much for this.

Awesome Channel I have the same robot but no remote would you know where I can get one or would it work without the remote

Mine had never been used, used it one time and now the arms are stuck in the center touching each other and won't move. Is this battery drain or did it already malfunction? Lol

You have impressed me more then any other you tuber has... So I just acquired my own verbot... He looks pristine from a quick glance ..But he doesn't work :(. Your 40 volume hack to lighten the aging of the plastic was relatable for me only because I use it to dye my hair blond! I don't think I have near the coordination or memory to bring my verbot back to life... Do you do mail order robot surgery?

Awesome...

So you do take pictures I wondered About that

So what is the gear shaft that goes up into the head for? Is there a second motor in the head that that selects each function? You’re awesome by the way. Just subbed.

I wonder if the 9v battery was for memory?

Great show! I recently got a tomy chatbot but the battery terminals are rusted or oxidized. Any idea how I should fix that?

That gear box is complicated 👍🏻

There's a easier way to program this robot that works better than voice commands. When I was a kid I used a electric keyboard. I would play a different note for each command and write what each note did. It was a lot of fun.

Hi I just got a verbot with the same problem. I just opened up the case and saw a gear connected to the motor i turned it and wala fixed

Like talking to your Cat

Randi if you like looking at Patents for vintage robot toys I put a lot of them on the Alphadrome robot web site. here is a link for the Verbot. alphadrome.net/forums/topic/10822-1983-patent-for-verbot/ Here is a link for the patents incase you just want to look them over. alphadrome.net/forums/forum/34-robot-patents/

It works just as good as it did when i was a kid. It kind of did what ever it wanted.

It was always so funny that this robot was also called Verbot here in Germany. It means Ban on sth in German. :D Ban on TOMY. ;)

Can connect this old robot to IoT 😆