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
The amazingly realistic female android, named Actroid DER 2, was demonstrated at the AKIBA Robot Festival here in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. 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
