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10 posts from December 2009
December 31, 2009
December 26, 2009
Giant Rhinoceros Beetle Robot - KABUTOM RX-03
Hitoshi Takahashi spent 11 years building this giant beetle robot just by himself as a hobby. Rhinoceros beetle in Japanese is "Kabutomushi" -thus the robot's name. It's 11 meters long and weighs 15 tons (estimate). It walks and can take up as many as 5 to 7 people. See photos of it being transported here.
Appeared on TV below.
December 24, 2009
5.6 feet walking tower robot - Tsutenkaku Robo
A group of companies in Osaka are joining force to build a 5.6 feet (170 cm) bipedal robot that looks like its well-known landmark - the Tsutenkaku tower. The Tsutenkaku Robo, which will come to life sometime in 2010, is aimed to promote Osaka city and it's businesses.
It won't be as tall as the 210 cm Hajime Robot but still should have a towering effect. The 30kg (66 lb) Tsutenkaku Robo will be constructed by Robot Force which in the past has built FIVE and many other robots.
Via NODE.
December 23, 2009
Christmas Medley by Toyota Partner Robot
Happy Holidays to Everyone! And yes, this robot is REALLY playing the trumpet.
December 15, 2009
Cooky makes you miso soup
Did you know that the proper way to make miso soup is to boil the water then put miso in, but NOT to return to a boil after you put in the miso? Well, you can program Cooky to do just that, or anyway you want to do it. How neat!
A project by the Robotic Life Project at the Keio University Graduate School of Media Design. The main person behind it is Yuta Sugiura (who by the way is also the son of Tomio Sugiura, well-known for developing Dynamizer and other humanoid robots).
To copy the objective of developing Cooky:
"We propose a cooking system that operates in an open environment. The system cooks a meal by pouring various ingredients into a boiling pot on an induction heating cooker and adjusts the heating strength according to the user's instructions. We then describe how it successfully functions in a shared space with the user. First, we use small mobile robots instead of built-in arms to save space, improve flexibility and increase safety. Second, we use detachable visual markers to allow the user to easily configure the real-world environment. Third, we provide a graphical user interface to display detailed cooking instructions to the user. We hope insights obtained in this experiment will be useful for the design of other household systems in the future. "
