ROBO-ONE Gran Prix 2007 - Retro vs. King Kizer. Play close attention right around the 46 second mark for some really surprising robot wrestling action. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
In the other video clips we focused on autonomous and then RC sumo robot entries. This video clip contains both types, and is primarily our list of "favorites" from the competition. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The AKIBA Robot Festival 2006 was held November 3-5 in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. Sunday's main event was the KondoCup Robot Soccer matches. This video clip features the 'Open Class' robots which are original humanoid ROBO-ONE type designs using Kondo servos. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
Murata Manufacturing, a major producer of semiconductor and sensor products, created a bicycling robot as a demonstration of their technology. The robot was a huge hit at the CEATEC 2006 held in Makuhari, Chiba this October. For more information, visit ROBOTS DREAMS at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
During the initial demonstration phase of the ROBO-ONE 11 robot competition held in Tokyo on March 24, 2007, OmniZero.4 totally blew away the competition and wowwed the audience. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
JR Robotics introduced the new RB-2000 series of humanoid robots at the 2006 All Japan Plastic Model/Radio Control show in Chiba, Japan this week. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The KondoCup Robot Soccer competition was held November 5, 2006 in Akihabara. This video features the 'Kondo' classification including KHR-1 and KHR-2HV robots. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The 10th ROBO-ONE robot competition took place September 16/17th in Nagai, Japan. The final match to determine the championship was between Ivre and King Kizer. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
Shinichi Kome designed and competed with a special micromouse that included a vacuum fan to improve traction at high speed. His strategy worked surprisingly well and resulted in a final maze time of 7.104 seconds. Unfortunately we were only able to capture two of the mouse's earlier runs in this video. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
The i-SOBOT's voice recognition and speech capabilities are extremely advanced in this price range. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
Speecys is developing humanoid robots capable of body language and expressing human emotions. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The Robots Dreams "Super" selections feature some of what we think are the coolest robot moves made during competitions like ROBO-ONE here in Japan. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
CrabFu creates some really amazing steam robots and won 2 gold metals at the RoboGames 2006 event in San Francisco. Videography by Matt Bauer (http://www.bauerind ependents.com). For the latest robot news, information, reviews, photos and videos, with special on-site coverage from Japan, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The AIST HRP-2 Humanoid Robot project at Tsukuba, Japan. Video clip courtesy Y. Nakagawa with RT Corporation. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
The Kanto regional finals for the All Japan Robot Sumo 2006 competition were held at Makuhari, Japan on October 7, 2006. This video includes selected bouts in the RC controlled robot classification. For more information, visit ROBOTS-DREAMS at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The AKIBA Robot Festival 2006 took place last weekend and featured everything from life-like androids, to dancing AIBO robot dogs, to humanoid robot soccer matches, to window washing robots, and almost anything else robotic you could possibly imagine. For more information, photos, and videos, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
The Robo-One Battle Robot Grand Prix was held in Tokyo this December, and the winner was The Great Majingaa. This video clip shows its three matches, and how it dominated the event. For more robot news, information, hacks, photos, and videos, see http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
One of the most oustanding demonstrations at the Kyosho Athlete Humanoid Cup competition was staged by Dr. GIY of ROBO-ONE fame, and featured twin MANOI AT01 robots doing a music video. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams
Futaba unveiled their new humanoid robot simultaneous in Japan and the US at major hobby shows last week. The robot has 20 degrees of freedom and is expected to have a US street price of around $1,200. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The ROBO-ONE Grand Prix 2007 series kicked off in Chiba this month starting with some really amazing demonstrations by the top championship level robots. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
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