Kenta Maru wins Robo-Cup Japan Open

 Hello Houston! Remember the MARU Family?

 Well, they continue to work with enthusiasm on their robots and this year 14 year old Kenta Maru has made a major win at RoboCup Japan Open 2010. He and his teammate Yuma Kutsumizu were second place in the RoboCupJunior Soccer Challenge and No. 1 in the primary division for ages 14 and under. And they will be heading to Singapore next month for the international RoboCup 2010 as representatives of Japan.

 Congratulations Kenta!!!!!  We wish you the best at the big competition next month!!!

 Here are some photos that father Naoki Maru kindly sent to GetRobo.

  Kenta Maru in the middle with team mate Yuma Kutsumizu and father Naoki Maru.

 Since the Marus' humanoid robots are mainly remote controlled, it was the first time for Kenta to challenge himself building autonomous wheeled robots.

 The Soccer Challenge is a competition for youths to design, program and strategize autonomous soccer-playing robots.

  

Comments

[Nancy Campbell]

This is an excellent post. Very interesting indeed. keep posting such stuff!