Following the article to the youtube video and then following the link there leads you to this site: http://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2009/01/23/1567.

Following the article to the youtube video and then following the link there leads you to this site: http://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2009/01/23/1567.html http://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2009/01/23/1567.ht... Translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Frobot.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fcda%2Fnews%2F2009%2F01%2F23%2F1567.html&sl=ja&tl=en http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&... The opening paragraph includes the following, "announced it had jointly developed a remote-controlled robot that can be secured in the new phone" Seems to be entirely remote controlled.