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The morning of the final day for the 9th Robo-One robot competition we joined the competitors upstairs as they went through their final preparations before the day’s battles began. . .
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The Sugiura family is really amazing when it comes to robots. Just before the Torino Olympics the Sugiura Brothers surprised and delighted all of us with their skiing robot. Yesterday, the Sugiura Sisters put on a great show with their Kappa robot. And today, at the 9th Robo-One competition here in Tokyo, the Sugiura’s surprised everyone even more with a robot that can actually jump - on one foot!
It's interesting to speculate who would win a match between a Robo-One robot like the Robonova and a Robosapien. Matt Bauer, who has both robots, thinks he knows how it would turn out.
Robots, like children, are sometimes hard to manage. They tend to do unexpected things, at just the wrong moment - like when you're trying to show them off to an admiring audience. Our Robopet robot has a real tendency to get into surprising situations . . .
We are always surprised and amazed at how fast some of the robots here in Japan can move. We captured some of the entries in the November, 2005 competition on video so that you can see for yourself.
"Hobbyists started the PC era, hobbyists with dial-up modems created BBS systems and started the internet era, and now robot hobbyists are creating the robotics era."
-Sinclair Donald
Senior Robotics Engineer
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