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The 16th Robot Survival Game at Mokei-juku, Tokyo (Mar 10, 2013)

2013-03-13T08:26:00.000+09:00

The 16th Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on Mar. 10, 2013.  Mokei-juku, for Figure Making Lesson Room was used for the 16th Robot Survival Game Field as the 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th one.

Six robots, Arnold Stallone (Noborizaka), Denryu (Gons), CR-Cannon (Yoshida), Yabusame (Mota), Combat Creatures (Mota) and XeroTANK (Ninagawa), joined the 16th Survival Game.   All robots were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle).

Robot Survival Games such as Combat Shooting, Duel Fight (10 games) and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in the 16th. Tobby-san and Noborizaka-san uploaded videos of all games in his YouTube channel. Noborizasa-san also uploaded videos through the camera attached his robot, Arnold Stallone. Details were also described in Sanzai-san's Blog (1) (2) (3) (in Japanese).

Combat Shooting :
Combat shooting is a practice game for training of shoot skill.  Robot moves to the shooting place from the starting point and shoots the target. Robot has to go to the shooting place for easy shooting. The target was a small can covered with aluminum foil in the 16th. Shooting of the center place of the target got bonus point.

Dual Fight :
Just 2 robots fight in the field.

Extermination Battle (Destroy the enemy completely): Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes.

Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) :
All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes was winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system.

Robot Survival Game was planned by Tanaka-san and Bishii-san. Mobile, not only multi-legged robot or biped robot but also mobile with wheel or caterpillar, which equipped with toy gun, hit sensor and camera system, can join to play survival game. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place at Akihabara, Tokyo on July 19, 2010 and the game takes place every 2 months. Tanaka-san also planned several kind of survival game, such as Extermination Battle, Flag Battle and Fortress Battle.

Trials of the Robot Survival Game were held twice on April 10th and June 13th (1) (2), 2010. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place on July 19th, the 2nd one on Sep 11th, the 3rd one on Nov 20-21st, the 4th one on Dec 11 in 2010, the 5th one on Feb 20, the 6th one on April 17, the 7th one on June 26, the 8th one on Sep 3-4, the 9th one on Nov 26 in 2011, the 10th on Feb 26, the 11th on Apr 29, the 12th on June 24, the 13th on Aug 26, the 14th on Oct 28th in 2012, the 15th on Dec 16th in 2012 and the details were described in this blog.

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

The 7th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race (Dec 22, 2012)

2013-02-21T12:51:00.000+09:00

The 7th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race took place at ROBOSPOT in Akihabara, Tokyo on Dec 22, 2012.

Eight multi-legged robots joined the race. Robot joined were Garutan (Kumama), Metallic Vaio 2012 (Morinaga), Milfy (Matsuo), BLACK TIGER L44 (IKETOMU), WaniWani (KENTA), Hakurou (HERO@Musen-ken), Echo (Yuya) and Dark Liger (Moriken).

A new additional attraction was added in the 7th KONDO LAND because 3 robots cleared 6 attractions in the 6th KONDO LAND. The 7th attraction is stairs with gate on the last stair. The gate opens for 15 seconds by pushing the botton in the goal floor as following the picture.

Robot has to go up staris within 15 seconds.Metallic Bio 2012 tried to going up the stars, however it was very hard to go up the stairs.

The 7th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race Results

Each robot had twice real time record race. In the 7th KONDO LAND Obstacle Race, no robots clear the course within 3 minutes and no robots charenged the 7th attractions.

The 1st place was Garutan, the 2nd place was WaniWani. The MVP was also Garutan custom-built by Kumama-san and Kupapa-san. Garutan was attached a camera system and was controlled through camera in the motan-house.

Details of the 7th KONDO LAND were described Sanzai-san`s blog (in Japanese). The result was described here. The best race video of each robot was as follows;

Garutan, 4-legged robot with camera system by Kumama-san. The 2nd place.

WaniWani, 4-legged robot custom-built with mobile head and tail by KENTA-san. The 2nd Place.

Metallic Vaio 2012; Two long arm or legged robot custom-built by Morinaga-san who is famous for biped robot, Metallic Fighter and called father of ROBO-ONE.

Milfy, 4-legged robot custom-built by Matsuo-san.

BLACK TIGER L44, 4-legged robot custom-built by IKETOMU.

Hakurou, 2+1?-legged robot custom-built by HERO@Musen-ken.

Regulations of the Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race were as follows.

1. Robot body regulation
1) KONDO servos have to be used.
2) There is no limitation of number of axes.
3) Weight of Robot is 3 kg or under.
4) Robot body sizes (arms are folding) are height 30 cm, width 30 cm and depth 30 cm or under.
5) Moving by wheels is prohibited.
6) Control board is free.
7) Robot has to be controlled by wireless or autonomous. Wired control is prohibited.

2. Course regulation
1) Obstacles are set in the KONDO CUP KHR Class Soccer Field.
2) The most narrow width of the course is 400 mm and the lowest height of the course is 400 mm.
3) Material of the floor depends on each obstacle.

3. Competition regulation
1) Just one robot walks the course.
2) Time from the start point to goal is recorded. The shortest time robot is winner.
3) Each robot can challenge the course twice.
4) Robot has to reach the goal within 3 minutes and the time over robot is retired.
5) Robot gone out of the course gets penalty time 10 seconds and one penalty point. Penalty time adds to the record of 3 mins. Robot can restart from the entrance of un-cleared obstacle. There are no limitations of restart times. Every restart adds 10 secs penalty time and one penalty point.
6) At the 2nd attraction, Magic Wall, robot push out the moving wall has a penalty time 10 secs and one penalty point. The magic wall push out is not returned to the obstacle course.
7) Robot can get points by pushing the button in each point getting place, where a point button set. Getting points are depended on the button set place.

KONDO LAND Attraction Guide

Various kinds of 6 obstacles set in the race course are as follows;

The 1st attraction : `Gattan` Seesaw
A big seesaw, which size are 500 mm in width and 700 mm in length with an inclination of 15 degrees. A point getting push button for one point is set. The steep slope is not easy for every robot. It is important for robot not to slip feet.
Degree of Difficulty：★☆☆☆☆

The 2nd attraction: Magic Wall
A road, which size are 600 mm width and 1,000 mm in length with 2 pushing robots. Magic Walll is hard for light weight robots. Robot needs weight and power for push out the Wall. Push button for stopping pushing robot was set on the each pushing robot. Player robot can stop the pushing robot by pushing the button switch.
Degree of Difficulty：★★☆☆☆

The 3rd Attraction: Mootan House
A big tunnel, which size are 1,200 mm width and 1,200 mm length with a pitfall (400 x 400 mm). Two push buttons for one point are set in the House. Ten point button is set out of the House. One push gets one point and ten times push get 10 points, however 11 times push makes point zero. Robots fallen into the trap, cannot return the race course. Controller cannot see his robot in the Mootan House from controlling space. Controller can move by the advice of his assistant. Robot can be attached wireless camera and be controlled through image on PC.
Degree of Difficulty：★★★☆☆

Robot fallen down under the Mootan House, has to open the gate by pushing button switch set behind the floor in front of Swirling Straits.

The 4th attraction: Wobbly Bridge
A Board Bridge, which size are 400 mm width and 700 mm length, revolves on an axis. If robots walk the edge of bridge, robots fall down from the bridge. Robots have to walk slowly in the center of board. Robot needs to have a low gravity. Ten points button is also set beyond the bridge and one point button is set in the slope to the Reverse Street.
Degree of Difficulty：★★★★☆

The 5th attraction: Swirling Straits
Robot fallen down from the pitfall of Mootan House, has to pass through the most difficult Swirling Straits. Space of 900 mm width and 1,000 mm length, filled with sponge balls is too hard to walk. Robots need to have long legs.
Degree of Difficulty：★★★★★

The 6th attraction: Reverse Street
Belt conveyor street of 500 mm width and 700 mm is moving reverse direction. Robot has to walk with high speed. The conveyor is too narrow to walk for big robots.
Degree of Difficulty：★★★★★

KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race is the competition for multi-legged robots and the 1st one was carried out at ROBOSPOT on
Dec 23, 2010.

Promotion of the 1st KONDO LAND competition , the 1st KONDO LAND competition, the 2nd one , the 3rd one , the 4th one , the 5th one and the 6th one were described in this blog.

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DeAGOSTINI Has Issued `Weekly Robi` with Biped Robot Parts of Robi (Feb 19, 2013)

2013-02-21T12:49:00.000+09:00

DeAGOSTINI has issued weekly magazine, `Weekly Robi` with biped robot parts of Robi on Feb 19th, 2013. The issue was announced in TV commercial on the day. Robi parts are attached every weekly magazine. Robot will complete with 70 volumes of magazine. The first issue price is 790 yen including tax. Price of the 2nd issue will be 1990 yen. The issue attached control board will be 4,990 yen.

Gingmag also introduced the issue of `Weekly Robi` in English.

Tomotaka Takahashi who is well known as robot creator such as CHROINO, FT, ROPID, EVOLTA etc., designed Robi.

Control board of Vstone Co., Ltd is used for the robot. Servo motors of Futaba Corporation are used with 20 axes. Voice-recognizing board and Human-detect-sensor are also attached. The weight is 1 kg including battery and the height is 340 mm.

DeAGOSTINI issued weekly magazine, `Weekly Robi` with biped robot parts of Robi on Oct 30th, 2012. DeAGOSTINI also issued weekly magazine, `Weekly ROBO XERO` with robot parts of ROBO XERO on Feb 8th, 2011. Robot has completed with 70 volumes of magazine on June, 2012 and the details were described in this blog.

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The 15th Robot Survival Game at Mokei-juku, Tokyo (Dec 16, 2012)

2012-12-23T16:00:00.001+09:00

The 15th Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2012.  Mokei-juku, for Figure Making Lesson Room was used for the 15th Robot Survival Game Field as the 10th, 12th, 13th and 14th one.

Four robots, Denryu (Gons), CR-Cannon (Yoshida), XeroTANK (Ninagawa) and Hyakkin-no-Manaita (Tokyo University of Science), joined the 15th Survival Game.   All robot were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle).

Robot Survival Games such as Combat Shooting, Duel Fight and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in. Tobby-san uploaded videos in his YouTube channel. Details were also described in Sanzai-san's Blog (in Japanese).

Combat Shooting 1: Denryu
Combat shooting is a practice game for training of shoot skill.  Robot moves to the shooting place from the starting point and shoots the target. Robot has to go to the shooting place for easy shooting. The target was a small can covered with aluminum foil in the 15th. Shooting of the center place of the target got bonus point.

Denryu attached with a new aiming system which moves with camera. Therefore Denryu could shoot the target from the starting point. The time was 8 seconds, the 1st place.

Combat Shooting 2: Xero TANK
Xero Tank was retired by gun trouble.

Combat Shooting 3: CR-Cannon
The time was 53 seconds.

Combat Shooting 4: Hyakkin-no-Manaita
The time was 18 seconds.

Dual Fight 1: CR-Cannon vs Xero Tank
Just 2 robots fight in the field. The winner was CR-Cannon.

Dual Fight 2: Denryu vs CR-Cannon
The winner was Denryu.

Dual Fight 3: Denryu and Xero Tank
The winner was Denryu.

Dual Fight 4: CR-Cannon vs Xero Tank
The winner was CR-Cannon.

The camera lens of CR-Cannon was shot by Xero-TANK.

Dual Fight 5: Xero Tank vs Denryu
Denryu had a machine trouble. The winner was Xero TANK.

Dual Fight 6: Hyakkin-no-Manaita vs Xero Tank
The winner was Hyakkin-no-Manaita .

XERO-TANK was shot perfectly by Hyakkin-no-Manaita.

Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) :
All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes was winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system. Four robots, Denryu, CR-Cannon, Xero TANK and Hyakkin-no-Manita, joined and the survived robots was Denryu.

Robot Survival Game was planned by Tanaka-san and Bishii-san. Mobile, not only multi-legged robot or biped robot but also mobile with wheel or caterpillar, which equipped with toy gun, hit sensor and camera system, can join to play survival game. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place at Akihabara, Tokyo on July 19, 2010 and the game takes place every 2 months. Tanaka-san also planned several kind of survival game, such as Extermination Battle, Flag Battle and Fortress Battle.

Trials of the Robot Survival Game were held twice on April 10th and June 13th (1) (2), 2010. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place on July 19th, the 2nd one on Sep 11th, the 3rd one on Nov 20-21st, the 4th one on Dec 11 in 2010, the 5th one on Feb 20, the 6th one on April 17, the 7th one on June 26, the 8th one on Sep 3-4, the 9th one on Nov 26 in 2011, the 10th on Feb 26, the 11th on Apr 29, the 12th on June 24, the 13th on Aug 26 , the 14th on Oct 28th in 2012 and the details were described in this blog.

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ISAMARO Mark Ⅱ, Entry Set was put on the market (Nov 15, 2012)

2012-11-25T09:49:00.000+09:00

Robotama.com put ISAMARO Mark Ⅱ Entry Set on the market on Nov 15, 2012. Entry Set was using low price servo, KRS-4031HV which toque was 13 kg/cm. Details of KRS-4031HV were reported in this blog.

The specification of ISAMARO Mark Ⅱ Entry Set were as follows:
Height: approx. 350 mm
Weight: approx. 1.9 kg
Degrees of freedom: 19
Actuator: KRS-4031HV (× 19)
Optional: wireless device
Battery: Lithium-polymer
Control board: RCB-4HV
Price: 168,000 yen (including tax)

Robotama.com put ISAMARO as a new robot kit, on the market on April 26, 2010. The first ISAMARO was using also low price servo, KRS-4024HVS, which torque was 10.5 kg/cm. Details of the original ISAMARO were reported in this Blog.

Then Robotama.com put ISAMARO Mark Ⅱusing high torque servo, KRS-4032HV on the market in this August. Two type of kit, RCB-4HV type and RCB-3HV type were prepared.

The specification of ISAMARO Mark Ⅱ were as follows:
Height: approx. 350 mm
Weight: approx. 1.9 kg
Degrees of freedom: 19
Actuator: KRS-4032HV (× 19)
Optional: wireless device
Battery: Lithium-polymer
Control board: RCB-4HV or RCB-3HV
Price: 333,900 yen (including tax)

ISAMARO and ISAMARO Mark Ⅱ are officially recognized robot kit by ROBO-ONE Committee. ISAMARO Mark Ⅱgot the 1st prize and 3rd prize in the ROBO-ONE Light 5th taken place on Sep 1st, 2012. Details of the ROBO-ONE Light 5th were reported in this blog.

ROBO-ONE Light 5th Final Match: Uchiman Z Gold (ISAMARO) vs Baboo-Custom (KHR-3HV Custom). ROBO-ONE Light 5th champion was Uchiman Z Gold by Team Mogu-Mogu. The champion got the right to join the 21th ROBO-ONE Tournament.

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The 14th Robot Survival Game at Mokei-juku, Tokyo (Oct. 28, 2012)

2012-11-21T07:47:00.000+09:00

The 14th Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2012.  Mokei-juku, for Figure Making Lesson Room was used for the 14th Robot Survival Game Field as the 10th, 12th and 13th one.

Robot Survival Game was planned by Tanaka-san and Bishii-san. Mobile, not only multi-legged robot or biped robot but also mobile with wheel or caterpillar, which equipped with toy gun, hit sensor and camera system, can join to play survival game. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place at Akihabara, Tokyo on July 19, 2010 and the game takes place every 2 months. Tanaka-san also planned several kind of survival game, such as Extermination Battle, Flag Battle and Fortress Battle.

Seven robots joined the 14th Survival Game were divided into two teams. Gons-san team members were Denryu (Gons), Milfy (Tokyo University of Science), Kikuchi-1gou (Tokyo University of Science).   Noborizaka-san team were Stallone (Noborizaka), Yabusame (Mota), CR-Cannon(Yoshida) and Zerotank (Ninagawa).   All robot were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle).

Robot Survival Games such as Extermination Battle, Flag Battle and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in the 14th Robot Survival Game. Noborizaka-san uploaded videos in his YouTube channel. Details were also described in Sanzai-san's Blog (in Japanese).

Extermination Battle: 1 (Destroy the enemy completely):
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Gons Team (Denryu, Milfy, Kikuchi-1gou) vs Noborizaka team (Stallone, Yabusame, CR-Cannon, Zerotank) . The winner was Gons team.

Extermination Battle: 2 (Destroy the enemy completely):
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Gons Team (Denryu, Milfy, Kikuchi-1gou) vs Noborizaka team (Stallone, Yabusame, CR-Cannon, Zerotank) . The winner was Noborizaka team.

Flag Battle: 1
Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Gons Team (Denryu, Milfy, Kikuchi-1gou) vs Noborizaka team (Stallone, Yabusame, CR-Cannon, Zerotank). The game ended in a draw.

Flag Battle 2:
Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Gons Team (Denryu, Milfy, Kikuchi-1gou) vs Noborizaka team (Stallone, Yabusame, Zerotank). The winner was Gons team.

Flag Battle 3:
Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes.Gons Team (Denryu, Milfy, Kikuchi-1gou) vs Noborizaka team (Stallone, Yabusame, Zerotank). The winner was Gons team.

Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) :
All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes is winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system.   Seven robots joined and survived robots were Stallone, Milfy and CR-Cannon.

Trials of the Robot Survival Game were held twice on April 10th and June 13th (1) (2), 2010. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place on July 19th, the 2nd one on Sep 11th, the 3rd one on Nov 20-21st, the 4th one on Dec 11 in 2010, the 5th one on Feb 20, the 6th one on April 17, the 7th one on June 26, the 8th one on Sep 3-4, the 9th one on Nov 26 in 2011, the 10th on Feb 26, the 11th on Apr 29, the 12th on June 24, the 13th on Aug 26 in 2012 and the details were described in this blog.

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`Dekinnoka!11` Robot Pro-Wrestling Match took place in Soka City (Nov 3, 2012)

2012-11-06T08:39:00.001+09:00

Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!11`, sponsored by Omata-san took place in Soka City on Nov 3, 2012 during Soka Fusasara Festival 2012. Open 1st rehearsal 10:15 am to 11:45 am, the 2nd rehearsal 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm and the real stage was carried out 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm (JST). The matches were shown on `Ustream Dekinnoka Channel` and videos are keeping in the channel.

Dekinnoka!11 video as Robot Pro-Wrestling was also uploaded by NHKonline.

Dekinnoka!11 was held as Tenkaneji Budokai 3rd (Best Martial Arts Screw Tournament On Earth 2nd). My custom-built robot `BLACK TIGER NEO` also joined as `Nagare-BLACKTIGER`.

`Dekinnoka!` in Japanese, means `Can you do it?`. As Omata-san has been loving real professional wrestling, the 1st Robot Professional Wrestling in Soka on Nov. 3rd, 2008 was planned and held by him. He explained the 'Robot Professional Wrestling' was not 'Wrestling' but 'Fighting Arts'. The purpose of `Dekinnoka!` was not only robot fight but also to inform pleasure of robot.

President Mister Tamao of Robot Pro-Wrestling, who is Omata-san planned not only wrestling match but also the back story of each wrestler character such as a real pro-wrestling match. Promotion of Deknnoka!11 have been uploaded.

Opening:
Dekinnoka!11 was opened by Japanese Dancing of Tokotoko-maru and Line Dancing of Meters, mini Metallic Fighters was also carried out. Opening match, Metallic Fighter vs Haruo, flying robot was carried out. The flying robot was custom-built by Amino-san.

Tenkaneji Budokai 3rd
(Best Martial Arts Screw Tournament On Earth 3rd)

Eight robots joined the tournament were Nagare-Yellow, Yukikaze, Newtrino, Wandahoo, Zerfar, Nagare-BLACKTIGER, Thunderbolt and Nagare-Gold. Each robot had one Dragon Screw and the winner of each match could get all screws. Fighting rule was as follows; the winner was the robot which dropped out of the ring or knocked down his opponent. The winner of the tournament, robot gotten 8 screws could call Nejiron, God of Screw. Nejiron would answer the winner's request. These storys were similar to those of `Dragon Ball`.

The 1st Match：Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage

Yukikaze vs Nagare-Yellow

The 2nd Match: Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage

Newtrino vs Wandahoo

The 3rd Match: Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage

Nagare-BLACKTIGER vs Zerfar

The 4th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage

Thunderbolt vs Nagare-Gold

The 5th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai Semifinal
Winner of the 1st Match vs Winner of the 2nd Match

Yukikaze vs Newtrino

The 6th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai Semifinal

Winner of the 3rd Match vs Winner of the 4th Match

Zerfar vs Nagare-Gold

The 7th Match: Robot Pro-Wrestling Handicap Match

Kyonkyonkamen vs Ryuketsu 48

The 7th Match: Special Single Match

Waroo vs Wanbi

The 8th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai Final

Winner of the 5th Match vs Winner of the 6th Match

Newtrino vs Nagare-Gold

The winner was Nagare-Gold and got all eight screws.

Announcement of the wish by Nagare-Gold, the winner of Tenkaneji Budokai
The winner Nagare-Gold asked Nejiron that he could have a match with Saaga, which is in Puerto Rico for his pro-wrestling training. Nejiron answered that his wish would be fulfilled at once.

Final Match:

Saaga vs Nagare-Gold

Omata-san carried out 9 times `Dekinnoka! as 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8` during 3 years. `Deknnoka!` has been also supported by the members of Kanto-Training-Group.

Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6' , Dekinnoka!7' , `Dekinnoka!8` , `Dekinnoka!9` , `Dekinnoka!10` and `Dekinnoka!10.5 have been uploaded in this blog. Videos were also uploaded to the 'Dekinnoka Official Site` by Omata-san. You can watch the details of the Robot Professional Wrestling videos by clicking each 10 poster of `Deinnoka! 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9` and 10.

Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6' , Dekinnoka!7' , `Dekinnoka!8` , `Dekinnoka!9` , `Dekinnoka!10` and `Dekinnoka!10.5 have been uploaded in this blog. Videos were also uploaded to the 'Dekinnoka Official Site` by Omata-san. You can watch the details of the Robot Professional Wrestling videos by clicking each 10 poster of `Deinnoka! 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9` and 10.

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

DeAGOSTINI Has Issued `Weekly Robi` with Biped Robot Parts of Robi (Oct 30, 2012)

2012-10-31T20:32:00.000+09:00

DeAGOSTINI issued weekly magazine, `Weekly Robi` with biped robot parts of Robi on Oct 30th, 2012. Robi parts are attached every weekly magazine. Robot will complete with 70 volumes of magazine. The first issue price is 790 yen including tax. Price of the 2nd issue will be 1990 yen. The issue attached control board will be 4,990 yen.

Gingmag also introduced the issue of `Weekly Robi` in English.

Tomotaka Takahashi who is well known as robot creator such as CHROINO, FT, ROPID, EVOLTA etc., designed Robi.

Control board of Vstone Co., Ltd is used for the robot. Servo motors of Futaba Corporation are used with 20 axes. Voice-recognizing board and Human-detect-sensor are also attached. The weight is 1 kg including battery and the height is 340 mm.

DeAGOSTINI also issued weekly magazine, `Weekly ROBO XERO` with robot parts of ROBO XERO on Feb 8th, 2011. Robot has completed with 70 volumes of magazine on June, 2012 and the details were described in this blog.

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Promotion of Robot Pro-Wrestling Match: `Dekinnoka!11` will take place in Soka City on Nov 3, 2012

2012-10-27T15:57:00.001+09:00

Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!11`, sponsored by Omata-san will take place in Soka City on Nov 3rd, 2012 during Soka Fusasara Festival 2012. The 1st stage (open rehearsal) takes place 10:15 am to 11:45, the 2nd stage (open rehearsal) 12:15 pm to 13:45 pm and the 3rd stage (the performance) 14:15 pm to 15:45 (JST). The matches will be shown on `Ustream Dekinnoka Channel`. My custum-built robot `BLACK TIGER NEO` also will join as `Nagare BLACKTIGER`.

In the case of bad weather, `Dekinnoka!11` will be held at Robotoma, a robot shop in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo on the day. The matches also will be shown on the Robotoma Ustream Channel.

Dekinnoka!11 PV -『Tenkaneji Budokai 3rd』
(Best Martial Arts Screw Tournament On Earth)

Eight robots join the tournament. Each robot has one Dragon Screw and the winner of each match can get all screws. Fighting rule is as follows; the winner is the robot which drops out of the ring or knocks down his opponent. The winner of the tournament, robot gotten 8 screws can call Nejiron, God of Screw. Nejiron will answer the winner's request. These story is similar to that of `Dragon Ball`.

President Mister Tamao of Robot Pro-Wrestling, who is Omata-san planned not only wrestling match but also the back story of each wrestler character such as a real pro-wrestling match.

Wrestling Matches of each stage scheduled are as follows;
Openning Match :Dark Match
Metallic-Fighter vs Haruo
Tenkaneji Budokai (Best Martial Arts Screw Tournament On Earth)
The 1st Match:Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage
Yukikaze vs Nagare-Yellow
The 2nd Match: Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage
Newtrino vs Wanda Hoo
The 3rd Match: Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage
Nagare-BLACKTIGER vs Zerfar
The 4th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage
Thunderbolt vs Nagare-Gold
The 5th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai Semifinal
Winner of the 1st Match vs Winner of the 2nd Match
The 6th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai Semifinal
Winner of the 3rd Match vs Winner of the 4th Match
The 7th Match: Dekinnoka! Special Match (1:4 Handicup Match)
Kyonkyon-kamen vs Ryuketsu-48
The 8th Match: Dekinnoka! Special Match
Waroo vs Wanbi
The 9th Match: Tenaneji Budokai Final
Winner of the 5th Match vs Winner of the 6th Match
Announcement of the wish by the winner of Tenkaneji Budokai to `Nejiron`
The 10th Match: Final
Champion Great Saaga vs the winner of Tenkaneji Budokai

`Dekinnoka!` in Japanese, means `Can you do it?`. As Omata-san has been loving real professional wrestling, the 1st Robot Professional Wrestling in Soka on Nov. 3rd, 2008 was planned and held by him. He explained the 'Robot Professional Wrestling' was not 'Wrestling' but 'Fighting Arts'. The purpose of `Dekinnoka!` was not only robot fight but also to inform pleasure of robot.

Omata-san carried out 13 times `Dekinnoka! as 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 10.5. `Deknnoka!` has been also supported by the members of Kanto-Training-Group.

Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6' , Dekinnoka!7' , `Dekinnoka!8` , `Dekinnoka!9` , `Dekinnoka!10` and `Dekinnoka!10.5 have been uploaded in this blog. Videos were also uploaded to the 'Dekinnoka Official Site` by Omata-san. You can watch the details of the Robot Professional Wrestling videos by clicking each 10 poster of `Deinnoka! 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9` and 10.

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The 13th Robot Survival Game at Mokei-juku, Tokyo (Aug. 26, 2012)

2012-09-13T08:56:00.000+09:00

The 13th Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2012.  Mokei-juku, for Figure Making Lesson Room was used for the 13th Robot Survival Game Field as the 10th and 12th one.

Robot Survival Game was planned by Tanaka-san and Bishii-san. Mobile, not only multi-legged robot or biped robot but also mobile with wheel or caterpillar, which equipped with toy gun, hit sensor and camera system, can join to play survival game. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place at Akihabara, Tokyo on July 19, 2010 and the game takes place every 2 months. Tanaka-san also planned several kind of survival game, such as Extermination Battle, Flag Battle and Fortress Battle.

Six robots joined the 13th Survival Game were divided into two teams. Gons-san team members were Denryu (Gons), Pakkan (Kamiya) and Aigis (Tanaka). Noborizaka-san team were Stallone (Noborizaka), Yabusame (Mota) and Milfy (Matsuo).   All robot were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle).

Robot Survival Games such as Combat Shooting, Extermination Battle, Flag Battle, Hamburger Hill and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in the 13th Robot Survival Game. Details were also described in Sanzai-san's Blog (in Japanese).

Before the 13th Games, Shooting test of biodegradable luminescence airsoft BBs was carried out by Stallone. The trajectory were beautifull.

Combat Shooting 1: Stallone
Combat Shooting is practice game for training of shoot skill. Player moves to push down the pole by the robot body and then shoot the target. The target is a cut 1 L milk paper pack. Winner is the shortest time player for shooting down the paper pack target.

Combat Shooting 2: Denryu

Combat Shooting 3: Yabusame

Extermination Battle: 1 (Destroy the enemy completely):
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Gons Team (Denryu, Pakkan, Aigis) vs Noborizasa team (Stallone, Yabusame, Milfy) . The winner was Gons team.

Extermination Battle: 2 (Destroy the enemy completely):
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Gons Team (Denryu, Pakkan, Aigis) vs Noborizasa team (Stallone, Yabusame, Milfy) . The winner was Gons team.

Flag Battle: 1
Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Gons team (Denryu, Pakkan) vs Noborizasa team (Stallone, Aigis, Milfy). The winner was Gons team.

Flag Battle 2:
Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Gons team (Denryu, Pakkan, Aigis) vs Noborizasa team (Stallone, Yabusame, Milfy). The winner was Noborizaka team.

Hamburger Hill
A new game, Hamburger Hill which was named after the movie, was a battle between attack team and defense team. Attack team cannot shoot gun but move to gole line. Defense team cannot move but shoot gun. If attack team can reach the gole line, the winner is attack team.  Defense team (Denryu, Pakkan) vs Attack team (Aigis, Stallone, Yabusame, Milfy). Attack team, Stallone could reach the gole line.  The winner was Attack team.

Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) :
All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes is winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system.   Joined robots were Denryu, Pakkan, Stallone, Yabusame, Milfy. The winner was Denryu.

Trials of the Robot Survival Game were held twice on April 10th and June 13th (1) (2), 2010. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place on July 19th, the 2nd one on Sep 11th, the 3rd one on Nov 20-21st, the 4th one on Dec 11 in 2010, the 5th one on Feb 20, the 6th one on April 17, the 7th one on June 26, the 8th one on Sep 3-4, the 9th one on Nov 26 in 2011, the 10th on Feb 26, the 11th on Apr 29, the 12th on June 24 in 2012 and the details were described in this blog.

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ROBO-ONE 21st Biped Robot Fight in Tokyo (Part 3) ROBO-ONE 21st Tournamnt (Sep 2, 2012)

2012-09-06T19:59:00.002+09:00

ROBO-ONE 21th sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo on Sep 1st and 2nd, 2012. ROBO-ONE Light 5th took place on Sep 1st, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Sep 1st and the main event ROBO-ONE 21st Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Sep 2nd.

ROBO-ONE 21st Tournament (Light Class, 3 kg or Under)

Regulations of ROBO-ONE 21st
The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg. Details of the body regulation were same as those of the 20th.

ROBO-ONE 21st was held as the tournament with 48 robots which were one winner of the local robot competitions, champion of ROBO-ONE Light 5th and upper place 46 robots in the preliminary competition, 4.5 m Footrace taken place on Sep. 1st.

The tournament winner was Garoo by Kumama-san, who also got a prize of 5 hundred thousand yen. Garoo won the championship for three consecutive ROBO-ONE Tournament. The 2nd place was Cortejyu-miharus by SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. The 3rd place was Reguhorn by Nakayan-san and 4th Place was NagareGold by Kenta-san. Result of the tournament was here.

The 21st ROBO-ONE was the 10th anniversary. A memorial exhibition match was carried out before the 3rd place and final match. The exhibition match was hold by two new type ROBO-ONE robots as Haruo 68, flying robot and King Kizer, jumping robot by compressed air. It seems to be necessary for ROBO-ONE robot to innovate.

Videos of 1st, 2nd, 3rd stage, quarterfinal, semifinal, for 3rd place and final matches were uploaded in IKETOMU Channel. Interesting videos were as follows;

The 1st Stage Matches
The 1st Stage: Ryuketsu-kamen vs Neutrino-NERO
Ryuketsu-kamen is well known to Robot Pro-wrestler. The winner was Neutrino-NERO

The 1st Stage: Uchiman Z Gold vs Kurenai
Uchiman Z Gold was the champion of the ROBO-ONE Light 5th on Sep 1st. The winner was Kurenai.

The 2nd Stage Match
The 2nd Stage: Tokotoko-maru vs Jastia
Tokotoko-maru moved to attack using fun system. The winner was jastia.

The 3rd Stage Match
The 3rd Stage: Gergoil-mini vs Reguhorn
The winner was Reguhorn.

The 3rd Stage: Jastia vs Garoo
The winner was Garoo.

Quaterfinal Matches
Quarterfinal-1: Chromkid vs Reguhorn
The winner was Reguhorn.

Quarterfinal-2: Cortejyu-miharusu vs Ekuserion
The winner was Cortejyu-miharusu.

Quarterfinal-3: NagareGold vs Neutrino-BLU
The winner was NagareGold.

Quarterfinal-4: Aerobattler vs Garoo
The winner was Garoo.

Semifinal Matches
Semifinal-1: Reguhorn vs Cortejyu-miharusu
The winner was Corutejyu-miharusu.

Semifinal-2: Garoo vs Nagaregold
The winner was Garoo.

For 3rd Place Match: Reguhorn vs NagareGold
The 3rd place was Reguhorn.

Final Match: Garoo vs Cortejyu-mikarusu
The winner was Garoo. Garoo could keep ROBO-ONE Championship.

ROBO-ONE Light Class (3 kg or Under) of 15th on May 4, 2009 , 17th on March 21, 2011, 19th on Oct 9, 2011 and 20th on March 25, 2012 were also described in this blog.

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ROBO-ONE 21st Biped Robot Fight in Tokyo (Part 2) 4.5 m Footrace (Sep 1, 2012)

2012-09-05T08:34:00.003+09:00

ROBO-ONE 21st sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo on Sep 1st and 2nd, 2012. ROBO-ONE Light 5th took place on Sep 1st, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Sep 1st and the main event ROBO-ONE 21st Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Sep 2nd.

Regulations of ROBO-ONE 21st
The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg. Details of the body regulation were same as those of the 20th.

ROBO-ONE 21st was held as the tournament with 48 robots which were winners of the local robot competitions, the 5th light and upper 46 place robots in the preliminary competition, 4.5 m Footrace.

4.5 m Footrace

In the last ROBO-ONE 20th, 9 m Footrace was carried out. It was clear that robot were divided into two groups, one was robots could walk the 9 m course within 1 minute and the other was fell down from the course. All robots walked the course within 1 minute passed the preliminary competition.

Four meters and 50 cm Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 46 robots and to decide the tournament order. Upper 46 robots could attend the tournament. One hundred-four robots joined the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace.

Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 30 seconds. Each robot time record taken 4.5 m walk, or the distance from start point if robot could not walk within 30 seconds, or robot fell down from the course was recorded.

Each robot tried just one time Footrace. The 4.5 m course seemed to be not flat in some parts and the center of the course was pasted sponsor advertise label. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 4.5 m course for most of robots. A lot of robots ran out of the course including Frosty, which seemed to be the fastest robot. The result is here.

The 1st place was automo 05(Go-Wan) 7.78 seconds by holypong-san, the 2nd place was Garoo 11.21 by Kumama-san, the 3rd place was Chromkid 11.35 by Kupapa-san, the 4th place was Tokotoko-maru 11.46 by Amino-san, the 5th place was Gergoil-mini 11.59 by Yoshida-san, the 6th place was Metallic Fighter 11.96 by Morinaga-san, the 7th place was Frog Food 13.06 by Shibata-san the 8th place was Aerobattler 13.93, the 9th was Corteju-Miharusu 15.71 and BLACK TIGER NEO, my robot was the 10th place, 15.72 seconds.

Just 40 robots could reach the goal within 30 seconds. Upper 10 robots were 15 seconds, the 11th to 16th robots were 20 seconds, 17th to 40th were 30 seconds.

Sanzai-san also reported details of 4.5 m Footrace (in Japanese).

4.5 m Footrace Videos of All Robots Joined ROBO-ONE 21st

At the beginning of 4.5 m Footrace, ROBO-ONE Committee announced Yoshimura-san entered to the ROBO-ONE Hall of Fame. Yoshimura-san is well known to God of ROBO-ONE and designer of KONDO KHR series robots. The first run was New R-Blue, LinkBlueMarkII custom-built by Yoshimura-san. The New R-Blue video is as follows;

Entry No.1~20
No1:R-blue, No2:Afuro, No3:Metalic Fighter, No5:BJ ASURA, No6:Takarobo, No7:Nagare-Gold, No8:Leguhorne, No9:Tokotoko-Maru, No10:Ganbatter, No11:Ryuketsu-kamen, No12:Ryuki ⅡO, No13:Zakyou-Hai, No14:Pi-co, No15:Hosenka, No16:Garoo, No17:Akakaze, No18:Ginkaji, No19:August, No20:Arutemis

Entry No.21~No.40
No21:Gattender, No22:BLACK TIGER NEO, No24:IGNIS.FTX, No26:OfunjabyZ, No27:KingKizer, No28:LINX, No29:Q-chan, No31:Aerobattler, No33:automo 05(Go-Wan), No34:MK-10, No35:Kurou-2gou, No36:Neutrino-NEO, No37:Neutrino-ROSSO, No38:Neurino-BLU, No39:Cyclops_X, No40:Osumi

Entry No.41~No.60
No42:TKU-04, No43:President, No44:Defighant No45:rayo No46:SaiverMKII, No48:Edion, No49:Rafale No50:ADVERSA-Dis, No51:Katacraft, No52:Balt, No54:Frosty, No55:Gknight, No56:Goten, No57:TreyterG, No58:Darkthunder, No59:Later, No60:Laziness

Entry No.61~No.80
No61:MAXIMUM JOKER, No62:SaikoroGreatTabo, No63:Simplefighter, No64:Haduki, No65: CU-1, No66:CAP OZAWAN, No67:Willtos, No68:Cirtejyu-miharus, No69:Bkaji, No70:YOGOROZA, No71:nagel, No72:Cancer, No73:Jastia, No74:Dicide, No77:Pirani No79:Gigas Tyrant, No80:Chromkid

Entry No.81~No.104, 47, 76, 53
No81:Marica, No82:Uchiman Z Red, No83:Sisaku-1gou, No84:QB-1, No85:Goldthunder, No86:Mujy, No87:Hayabusa, No88:Saru1, No89:Kurogane1, No91:Jank-shin, No92:Moss, No93:Gekkou, No94:Kurenai, No95:ant lion, No96:Tanegashimamachine3, No97:JOKER, No98:Regulus, No99:Gergoil-mini, No102:DeKarle, No104:Frogfoot, No47:Kagerou, No76:Wegweiser IV, No53:Heehoohat

The 1st 9 m Footrace was held in Humanoid Helper Project 3rd on Dec. 26, 2010. Footraces were also carried out in ROBO-ONE 19th (9m) and 20th (9m) as the preliminary competition for the tournament and details were reported in this blog.

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

ROBO-ONE 21st Biped Robot Fight in Tokyo (Part 1) ROBO-ONE Light 5th (Sep 1, 2012)

2012-09-03T20:32:00.000+09:00

ROBO-ONE 21st sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo on Sep 1st and 2nd, 2012.   ROBO-ONE Light 5th took place on Sep 1st, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Sep 1st and the main event ROBO-ONE 21st Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Sep 2nd.

ROBO-ONE Light 5th

ROBO-ONE Light is robot fight tournament for robots on the market, which are officially recognized by ROBO-ONE Committee. Beginner, who gets robot from the market and want to attend the ROBO-ONE Tournament, also can attend the competition with his robot which is made from just robot kit. Custom-built robot, just the weight 1 kg or under also can attend the tournament. The winner of Light Class gets the right to attend the 21st ROBO-ONE Tournament on the next day.

The regulations are as follows;
1) Officially recognized robot regulation
Robots on the market, officially recognized by ROBO-ONE Committee, can attend the competition whether the robot adapt ROBO-ONE 21st regulation nor not. Remodeling is prohibited. Head parts can be remodeled and also covering robot body with plastic or paper is permitted.
2) Robot weight except for the officially recognized robot is 1 kg or under and the robot has to adapt ROBO-ONE 21st regulation.

In the tournament, custom-built robots handicapped by about 500 g compared with officially recognized kits such as KHR-3HV. It was interesting that how builder of custom robot 1 kg or under overcame the weight handicap and which robot kit was able to win the tournament. However, it is necessary for getting championship of robot fight tournament to carry 3 important factors such as good body, good motion and good control.

Thirty-six robots joined the tournament. They were KHR-3HVs including ROBO-ONE Custom, ISAMARO and custom-built robots 1kg or under. RONO-ONE Light 5th tournament was carried out divided four blocks.

The most attractive robot was Haruo 86, a flying robot custom-built by Team Hachiroku (Amino-san). Haruo 86 got downs from White Fox by flying kick. However, Haruo 86 lost the game on a foul because Haruo 86 did not walk on the ground.   The 1st Stage, Haruo 86 vs White Fox is as follows.

All blocks winners were officially recognized robots. Custom-built UK1 robots could overcome the weight handicap 500g. The Champion was Uchiman Z Gold (ISAMARO), the 2nd place was Banboo Custom (KHR-3HV Custom) and the 3rd place was Uchiman Z Red (ISAMARO). The results are here.

Sanzai-san also reported the details of  ROBO-ONE Light 5th in his blog (1) (2) .

Final Match: Uchiman Z Gold (ISAMARO) vs Baboo-Custom (KHR-3HV Custom). ROBO-ONE Light 5th champion was Uchiman Z Gold by Team Mogu-Mogu. The champion got the right to join the 21th ROBO-ONE Tournament.

ROBO-ONE Light 1st took place at the same place on Mar 20th, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 2nd on May 22nd, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 3rd on Oct 8th, 2011 and ROBO-ONE Light 4th on Mar 24th, 2012.

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Metallic Vaio 2012, a Unique New Type Custom-Built Robot (July 21, 2012)

2012-07-22T14:51:00.000+09:00

Metallic Vaio 2012, a unique new type robot with two long arms or legs custom-built by Morinaga-san, who is famous for his biped robot, Metallic Fighter and is called Father of ROBO-ONE joined the 6th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race on July 21, 2012.

Metallic Vaio 2012 cleared the course with 2 minutes and 17 seconds, the 2nd place. Metallic Vaio 2012 also got the MVP prize.

Metallic Vaio 2012 has 18 axes. Two long arms or legs work as caterpillar. Demonstration video in the 6th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race is as follows;

The 2nd trial video of Metallic Vaio 2012 in the 6th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race is as follows. Metallic Vaio cleared the course with 2 minutes and 17 seconds which record was the 2nd place.

Sanzai-san also reported details of Metallic Vaio in his blog with pictures and videos (in Japanese).

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The 6th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race (July 21, 2012)

2012-07-22T11:13:00.003+09:00

The 6th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race took place at ROBOSPOT in Akihabara, Tokyo on July 21, 2012.

KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race is the competition for multi-legged robots and the 1st one was carried out at ROBOSPOT on
Dec 23, 2010.

Ten multi-legged robots, such as 4-legged and 6-legged robot joined the race. Robot joined were Metallic Vaio 2012 (Team Morinaga), WaniWani (KENTA), Garutan (Kumama), Tama-Kagi-Machine (Tma-Kagakugijutsu High School Robot Club), Dark Liger (Moriken), TicTac6.5 (Amino), Milfy (Matsuo), Soen type.L01 (HERO@Musen-ken), Miwakuno-Takyaku-kun (Takahashi) and BLACK TIGER L44 (IKETOMU).

The 6th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race Results

Each robot had twice real time record race. In the 6th KONDO LAND Obstacle Race, Metallic Vaio 2012, Dark Liger and BLACK TIGER L44 could clear the course within 3 minutes. The 1st place was BLACK TIGER L44 which cleared 2 minutes and 15 seconds. The 2nd place was Metallic Vaio 2012 cleared 2 minutes and 17 seconds and the 3rd place was Dark Liger cleared 2 minutes and 37 seconds.

The MVP was Metallic Vaio 2012 custom-built by Morinaga-san for unique 18 axes robot with 2 long arms or legs.

The result was described here . The best race video of each robot was as follows;

Metallic Vaio 2012; Two long arm or legged robot custom-built by Morinaga-san who is famous for biped robot, Metallic Fighter and called father of ROBO-ONE. The 2nd run, it took 2 minutes and 17 second for clearing the course. Metallic Vaio 2012 was the 2nd place and also got the MVP of the 6th KONDO LAND.

WaniWani, 4-legged robot custom-built with mobile head and tail by KENTA-san.

Garutan, 4-legged robot with camera system by Kumama-san.

Tama-Kagi-Machine, 4-legged robot custom-built by Tama-Kagakugijyutsu High School Robot Club.

Dark Liger, 4-legged robot custom-built by Moriken-san. The 2nd run, it took 2 minutes and 37 second for clearing the course. Dark Liger was the 3rd place.

TicTac6.5, 6-legged robot using just 3 servos and link system by Amino-san.

Milfy, 4-legged robot custom-built by Matsuo-san.

Soen type.L01, 4-legged robot with long legs, custom built by HERO@Musen-ken

Miwaku-no-Takyaku-kun, 4-legged robot custom-built by Takahashi-san. The robot tried to push the button on the Magic Wall using its long head and stopped Magic Wall.

BLACK TIGER L44, 4-legged robot custom-built by IKETOMU. The 1st run, it took 2 minutes and 15 second for clearing the course perfectly. BLACK TIGER L44 was the 1st place.

Regulations of the Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race were as follows.

1. Robot body regulation
1) KONDO servos have to be used.
2) There is no limitation of number of axes.
3) Weight of Robot is 3 kg or under.
4) Robot body sizes (arms are folding) are height 30 cm, width 30 cm and depth 30 cm or under.
5) Moving by wheels is prohibited.
6) Control board is free.
7) Robot has to be controlled by wireless or autonomous. Wired control is prohibited.

2. Course regulation
1) Obstacles are set in the KONDO CUP KHR Class Soccer Field.
2) The most narrow width of the course is 400 mm and the lowest height of the course is 400 mm.
3) Material of the floor depends on each obstacle.

3. Competition regulation
1) Just one robot walks the course.
2) Time from the start point to goal is recorded. The shortest time robot is winner.
3) Each robot can challenge the course twice.
4) Robot has to reach the goal within 3 minutes and the time over robot is retired.
5) Robot gone out of the course gets penalty time 10 seconds and one penalty point. Penalty time adds to the record of 3 mins. Robot can restart from the entrance of un-cleared obstacle. There are no limitations of restart times. Every restart adds 10 secs penalty time and one penalty point.
6) At the 2nd attraction, Magic Wall, robot push out the moving wall has a penalty time 10 secs and one penalty point. The magic wall push out is not returned to the obstacle course.
7) Robot can get points by pushing the button in each point getting place, where a point button set. Getting points are depended on the button set place.

KONDO LAND Attraction Guide

Robot fallen down under the Mootan House, has to open the gate by pushing button switch set behind the floor in front of Swirling Straits.

Details of the 6th KONDO LAND were described Sanzai-san`s blog (1) , (2) (in Japanese). Promotion of the 1st KONDO LAND competition , the 1st KONDO LAND competition, the 2nd one , the 3rd one , the 4th one and the 5th one were described in this blog.

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The 9th Wandahoo Robot Carnival will take place and be shown on USTREAM, July 15th, 2012 (July 11, 2012)

2012-07-11T07:54:00.000+09:00

The 9th Wandahoo Robot Carnival will be held at Takaonomori Wakuwaku Village in Hachioji City, Tokyo on July 15th, 2012.

The competition will be shown on `Ustream Wandahoo Robot Carnival` from 12:30 to 18:30 (JST).

The 9th Wandahoo Robot Carnival videos are keeping in the Ustrean Wandahoo Robot Carnival Channel.

Program is as follows;
12:30 Opening Ceremony
Introduction of Participating Robots
Dash 2000
Bottle Traction
Dice Shot
Cubs
Rumble Fight
Robot Fight, Final Tournament
18:30 Closing Ceremony

Wandahoo Robot Carnival is sponsored by Ishikawa-san and supported by the members of Kanto ROBOT Practice（Kanto-gumi　Robot Training Meeting）. Ishikawa-san and his stuffs are busy preparing USTREAM Live system of the Carnival now. Entry of the Carnival has finished on July 1st, and 23 robots have entried.

The Carnival is robot competition consisted with various four type games such as Dash 2000 (competition of 2 robots, 2 m U-turn course foot race; each robot gets points depended on the order of record time), Bottle Traction (pushing or pulling a basket with 500 or 1000 ml bottles for 2 m within 1 minute; points are multiplication of number of bottles and distance carried), Dice Shot (dice soccer of 2 robots; each robot gets points depended on the spots of dice shot for 2 minutes) and Cubs (team game of 3 robots each, carrying cubs to own territory for 2 minutes; winner team members get points) and Robot Fight with the best 4 robots. Therefore, this Carnival is called `Robot Olympic`.

Each robot gets points from each game. In the case of team game, winner team member robots gets points. Four robots gotten many points can join the final tournament of Robot Fight. The rest robots have Ramble Fights. Those games were planned by Ishikawa-san.
It is necessary for winner that the robot has a high activity with performance and also good luck.

The 1st Carnival took place on July 16, 2006 and then the Carnival held twice in January and July every year. From 2010, the Carnival takes place in July once a year. Animader-san painted each event poster. As for the poster gallery, click here. The theme song of Carnival also can be downloaded here.

The series of Wandahoo Robot Carnival Result; Reports are as follows;

The 1st Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Bunkyo Civic Center on July 16, 2006
The 2nd Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Bunkyo Civic Center on Jan 17, 2007
The 3rd Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Bunkyo Civic Center on July 15, 2007
The 4th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Bunkyo Civic Center on Jan 13, 2008
The 5th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Bunkyo Civic Center on July 20, 2008
The 6th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Institute of Industry Promotion Kawasaki on Jan 11, 2009 :Report
The 7th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Telecom Center on July 19, 2009 :Report
The 8th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Electric Power Historycal Museum on July 11, 2010 :Promotion

Additional petch carnival also took place twice as follows:
"Wandahoo Robot Carnival Petit" in Soka Fusasara Festival on Nov 2, 2008 :Report
"Wandahoo Robot Carnival Petit 2" in the 6th MONO CREATOR FESTIVAL 2009 Spring on Apr 29, 2009 :Report
Wandahoo Robot Carnival For JSRC on Feb 11, 2011 :Promotion

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ROBO XERO has been Completed on June, 2012

2012-07-05T08:23:00.001+09:00

DeAGOSTINI issued weekly magazine,`Weekly ROBO XERO` with robot parts of ROBO XERO on Feb 8th, 2011. ROBO XERO parts was attached every weekly magazine. I reported the details of the ROBO XERO in this blog on Dec 21, 2010. Robot has completed with 70 volumes of magazineon on June, 2012.

ROBO XERO is based `JO-ZERO` of Himeji Softworks. Servo moters `RS306MD` of Futaba Corporation are used for the robot with 24 axes. The weight is 900 g and height is 300 mm. The robot is suitable for the U1K ( Under 1 kg ) robot fight competition.

Dr. GIY, famous ROBO-ONE robot builder also cmpleted the ROBO XERO and uploaded cool videos as follows;

Details of JO-ZERO and JO-ZERO Type-2, a New Model of JO-ZERO were described in this blog. The remarkable difference between JO-ZERO and ROBO-XERO is structure of hand. New robot can grip.

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The 12th Robot Survival Game at Mokei-juku, Tokyo (June.24, 2012)

2012-07-02T08:39:00.001+09:00

The 12th Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on June. 24, 2012. Eight robots joined the 12th Survival Game were KIKUCHI-1gou (left), Aigis (back left), Denryu (back center), CR-Cannon (CR-Cannon), Stallone (front left), Yabusame (front center left), BLACK TIGER L45 (front center right) and Zerotank (front right)
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Mokei-juku, for Figure Making Lesson Room was used for the 12th Robot Survival Game Field as the 10th one. The floor seemed to be good for survival game because it was enough large to battle and not flat.

Robot Survival Game was planned by Tanaka-san and Bishii-san. Mobile, not only multi-legged robot or biped robot but also mobile with wheel or caterpillar, which equipped with toy gun, hit sensor and camera system, can join to play survival game. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place at Akihabara, Tokyo on July 19, 2010 and the game takes place every 2 months. Tanaka-san also planned several kind of survival game, such as Extermination Battle, Flag Battle and Fortress Battle.

Eight robots joined the 12th Survival Game were divided into two teams. Gons-san Team members were Denryu (Gons), BLACK TIGER L45 (IKETOMU) and Zerotank (Ninagawa). Noborizaka-san Team were Stallone (Noborizaka), CR-Cannon (Yoshida), KIKUCHI 1-gou (TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE Student Team), Yabusame (Mota) and Aigis (Tanaka).   All robot were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle).

Robot Survival Games such as Combat Shooting, Fox Hunting, Extermination Battle, Flag Battle, Best One vs Others and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in the 12th Robot Survival Game. The details were also described in Sanzai-san's Blog (in Japanese).

Combat Shooting: Stallone
Combat Shooting is practice game for trainning of shoot skill. Player moves to the No.1 shooting place from the starting point and push down the 1st box and then shoot the 1st target. After shooting down the 1st target, player moves to next place and push down the 2nd box and shoot the 2nd target. Winner is the shortest time player for shot down 3 targets. The target is a cut 1 L milk paper pack.

Fox Hunting 1:
Fox robot starts to run away. Hunter robot runs after Fox robot and hits it. Hunter robot has to hit down Fox robot within 3 minutes. Fox robot do not shoot Hunter robot for 2 minutes and 30 seconds from start time and can shoot Hunter robot for last 30 seconds. Hunter robot was BLACK TIGER L45 and Fox robot was Stallone. The game ended in a draw.

Fox Hunting 2:
Fox robot starts to run away. Hunter robot runs after Fox robot and hits it. Hunter robot has to hit down Fox robot within 3 minutes. Fox robot do not shoot Hunter robot for 2 minutes and 30 seconds from start time and can shoot Hunter robot for last 30 seconds. Hunter robot was Zerotank and Fox robot was Denryu. The game ended in a draw.

Extermination Battle 1 (Destroy the enemy completely):
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team (Stallone, CR-Cannon, KIKUCHI-1gou) vs Gons Team (Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank). Winner was Gons Team.

Extermination Battle 2 (Destroy the enemy completely):
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team (Stallone, Yoshida, Aigis) vs Gons Team (Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank). Winner was Noborizaka-san Team.

Flag Battle: 1
Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team (Stallone, Yoshida, KIKUCHI-1gou) vs Gons Team (Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank). The game ended in a draw.

Flag Battle 2:
Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team (Stallone, CR-Cannon, Kikuchi-1gou) vs Gons Team (Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank). Winner was Gons Team.

Special Battle, the Best One Robot, Denryu (Gons) vs Other all Robot:
Just Denryu (Gons) had to fight against other all robots. Because Denryu with high speed mobile was the strongest robot in the all robots joined.   Using of full field and fighting time was 5 minutes. The Best 1 robot is Denryu vs Others as Stallone, CR-Cannon, KIKUCHI-1gou, BLACK TIGER L45 and Zerotank. Denryu was shot by BLACK TIGER L45.

Battle Royal (Rumble Battle 1) :
All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes is winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system.   Joined robots were Stallone, CR-Cannon, KIKUCHI-1gou, Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank and Yabusame. The winner was Denryu.

Battle Royal (Rumble Battle 2) :
All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes is winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system. Joined robots were Stallone, CR-Cannon, Kikuchi-1gou, Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank and Yabusame. The winner was Denryu.

Trials of the Robot Survival Game were held twice on April 10th and June 13th (1) (2), 2010. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place on July 19th, the 2nd one on Sep 11th, the 3rd one on Nov 20-21st, the 4th one on Dec 11 in 2010, the 5th one on Feb 20, the 6th one on April 17, the 7th one on June 26, the 8th one on Sep 3-4, the 9th one on Nov 26 in 2011, the 10th on Feb 26, the 11th on Apr 29  and the details were described in this blog.

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The 11th Robot Survival Game at AKIBA CULTURES ZONE, Tokyo (Apr.29, 2012)

2012-04-30T10:45:00.001+09:00

The 11th Robot Survival Game took place at AKIBA CULTRES ZONE, Tokyo on Apr. 29, 2012. Robot Survival Game was planned by Tanaka-san and Bishii-san. Mobile, not only multi-legged robot or biped robot but also mobile with wheel or caterpillar, which equipped with toy gun, hit sensor and camera system, can join to play survival game. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place at Akihabara, Tokyo on July 19, 2010 and the game takes place every 2 months. Tanaka-san also planned several kind of survival game, such as Extermination Battle, Flag Battle and Fortress Battle.

Seven robots joined the 11th Survival Game were Gonbei Mk-Ⅱ(front left), Aigis (front center), Yabusame (front right), CR CANNON (back left), BLACK TIGER L45 (back center left), Stallone (back center right) and Denryu (back right).

Joined 7 robot were divided into two teams. Gons-san Team members were Denryu (Gons), BLACK TIGER L45 (IKETOMU) and CR CANNON (Yoshida). Noborizaka-san Team were Stallone (Noborizaka), Yabusame (mota), Gonbei Mk-Ⅱ(B-saku) and Aisgis (Tanaka).  One team was consisted with 3 robots, one of three robots was controlled without camera system and laser sighting system, other 2 robots were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle).    Battle Royal was carried out without camera system. The details were also described in Sanzai-san's Blog (in Japanese).

AKIBA CULTRES ZONE, a small exhibition figure room on the underground floor was used as the 11th Robot Survival Game Field.  Robot Survival Games such as Extermination Battle, Flag Battle, Fox Hunting and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out.

Extermination Battle A (Destroy the enemy completely)
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Winner was Gons Team.

Extermination Battle B (Destroy the enemy completely)
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Winner was Gons Team.

Extermination Battle C (Destroy the enemy completely):
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Winner was Gons Team.

Flag Battle A:
Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team.

Flag Battle B:
Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team.

Fox Hunting:
Fox robot starts to run away. Hunter robot runs after Fox robot and hits it. Hunter robot has to hit down Fox robot within 5 minutes. Fox robot was CR CANNON and Hunter robot were other all robots.

Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) :
All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes is winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system.

Trials of the Robot Survival Game were held twice on April 10th and June 13th (1) (2), 2010. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place on July 19th, the 2nd one on Sep 11th, the 3rd one on Nov 20-21st, the 4th one on Dec 11 in 2010, the 5th one on Feb 20, the 6th one on April 17, the 7th one on June 26, the 8th one on Sep 3-4, the 9th one on Nov 26 in 2011, the 10th one on Feb 26 in 2012 and the details were described in this blog.

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ROBOT JAPAN Team joined RoboGames 2012 (Apr 20-21, 2012)

2012-04-28T11:38:00.001+09:00

RoboGames is the Olympics of robots from around the world to compete in over 50 different events such as combat robots, fire-fighters, LEGO bots, hockey bots, walking humanoids, soccer bots, sumo bots, and even androids that do kung-fu. Some robots are autonomous, some are remote controlled. As an open event, anyone can join.

The 9th annual games, RoboGames 2012 took place on Apr 20-22, 2012 at San Mateo Event Center in San Mateo, CA.   Fifty-nine event took place and 682 Robots joined of 238 teams from 16 countries. Results from RoboGames 2012 are here.

Team Robot Japan joined RoboGames 2012 and got 10 medals. Real King Kizer custom-built by Maru-san got the Best of Show Gold Medal.     Kageki-san, Lem-san and Sanzai-san reported Team Robot Japan in their blog with cool videos and pictures.

I tried to review games and to collect videos joined Team Robot Japan. Team Robot Japan robots were introduced in the Robot Japan's web site.   The leaders of Team Robot Japan were Koguma-san and Kazuko-san were introduced in Kageki-san's blog.   Promotion Video of Team Robot Japan also uploaded as Robot Japan US Tour 2012, Robot Japan US 2012 Tour-2 and Robot Pro Wrestling US Tour 2012 by Lem-san.

Zaura custom-built by Kenta-san is a member robot of Robot Pro-Wrestling `Dekinnoka!'. Ryuketsu Kamen, KHR-3HV based wrestler robot by Oamata-san who is sponsor of the Robot Pro-Wrestling `Dekinnoka!. Tokotoko-Maru custom-built by Amino-san is well known as Japaanese classical Japanese dancing robot. Real King Kizer custom-built by Maru-san moves as Real Steel Robot with 100 cm height.   Kazumin is a KHR-3HV based robot by Oguma-san.   Kazugon is a KHR-3HV based robot by Kazuko-san. Thunder Bolt, custom-built by Shibata-san is also a member of the Robot Pro-Wrestling.

Kageki-san reported Team Robot Japan in RoboGames 2012 on the 1st day, 2nd day, 3rd day part 1, part 2 and part 3.

Soccer:
Android 3:3    Team Japan 1: Silver Medal, Team Japan 2: Bronze Medal

Team Japan 1 vs Team Japan 2

Androids:
Kung-Fu - MiddleWt   King Kizer: Gold Medal

King Kizer

Zaura

FreeStyle - original   Tokotoko-Maru: Gold Medal, Mini Zaura: Silver Medal, King Kizer: Bronz Medal

Robot Japan Team Demo

Tokotoko-Maru

Real King Kizer

FreeStyle - kit   Ryuketsu Kamen: Gold Medal

Biped Race King Kizer: Gold medal
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MechWars - HardCore   Frog Foot: Gold medal

Open:
Best of Show   King Keizer: Gold Medal

Members and Robots of Team Robot Japan; photo from RoboGames

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

Robot Pro-Wrestling 'Dekinnoka!' in the UK Gadget Show and in RoboGames 2012 (Mar 11, Apr 20-21, 2012)

2012-04-25T20:54:00.001+09:00

Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!10.5` took place at Robospot in Akihabara, Tokyo on Mar 11, 2012 for the UK Gadget Show. ` Dekinnoka` also took place in the RoboGames 2012 on Apr 20-22, 2012 and the main character robot, Ryuketsu Kamen got the Gold medal in the Humanoid Freestyle Kit Class.

`Dekinnoka!` in Japanese, means `Can you do it?`. As Omata-san, producer of `Dekinnoka` has been loving real professional wrestling, the 1st Robot Professional Wrestling in Soka on Nov. 3rd, 2008 was planned and held by him. He explained the 'Robot Professional Wrestling' was not 'Wrestling' but 'Fighting Arts'. The purpose of `Dekinnoka!` was not only robot fight but also to inform pleasure of robot.

Dekinnoka 10.5 at Robospot in Akhabara, Tokyo

Details of the UK Gadget Show visiting Japan, deciding to build a humanoid robot, and getting in the ring with Robot Pro-Wrestling Robots were described in the ROBOSAVVEY as Robosavvy helped making Gadget Show's Japan robotics episode. Ninja robot wrestler fought with Ryuketsu Kamen, Yukikaze and the Champion Great Saaga.

Lem-san introduced videos of UK Gadget Show Visiting Japan and also reported the UK Gadget Show Visits Japan with cool pictures and videos as follows;

Japanese announcers of Robot Pro-Wrestling

Garoo vs Kumataro

Bulldog Ninja vs Ryuketsu Kamen

Bulldog Ninja vs YukiKaze (Snow Wind)

Shibata-san helped Jason-san adjust Bulldog Ninja for the best balance and performance.

`Dekinnoka` in the RoboGames 2012

Ryuketsu Kamen fought with Garoo as the demonstration of the Humanoid Freestyle Kit Class and got the Gold medal.

Amino-san took a video of Robot Pro-Wrestling `Dekinnoka!` fight, Ryuketsu Kamen vs Garoo by his Aerial photography from Quadcopter.

Ramble Fight of Three Robots, Tokotoko-Mar, King Kizer and Ryuketsu Kamen on the Dekinnoka! Rin

Omata-san carried out 10 times `Dekinnoka! as 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9 and 10 during 3 years. `Deknnoka!` has been also supported by the members of Kanto-Training-Group.

Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6' , Dekinnoka!7' , `Dekinnoka!8` , `Dekinnoka!9` and `Dekinnoka!10` have been uploaded in this blog. Videos were also uploaded to the 'Dekinnoka Official Site` by Omata-san. You can watch the details of the Robot Professional Wrestling videos by clicking each 10 poster of `Deinnoka! 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9` and 10.

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ROBO-ONE 20th Biped Robot Fight in Kawasaki (Part 3) ROBO-ONE 20th Tournamnt (Mar 25, 2012)

2012-03-29T13:05:00.000+09:00

ROBO-ONE 20th sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at Institute of Industrial Promotion Kawasaki Hall in Kawasaki City on Mar 24-25th, 2012.

In ROBO-ONE 20th, ROBO-ONE Light 4th took place on Mar 24th, 9 m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Mar 24th and the main event ROBO-ONE 20th tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Mar 25th.

Regulations of ROBO-ONE 20th
The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg. Details of the body regulation were same as those of the 19th.

ROBO-ONE 20th Tournament (Light Class, 3 kg or Under)

ROBO-ONE 20 was held as the tournament with 50 robots which were winners of the local robot competitions and upper place 48 robots in the preliminary competition, 9 m Footrace.

The winner was Garoo by Kumama-san, who also got a prize of 5 hundred thousand yen. The second place was Gargoil-mini by Yoshida-san. The 3rd place was Cortejyu by SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Result of the tournament was here.

Videos of 1st Stage, 2nd Stage, 3rd Stage, Quarterfinal, Semifinal, For 3rd Place and Final match were uploaded in IKETOMU Channel. Intersting videos were as follows;

The 1st Stage Matches
The 1st Stage 1: IGNIS.FT vs YOGOROA
The winner was IGNIS.FT

The 1st Stage 6: Gattender vs AeroBattler.
The winner was AeroBattler

The 1st Stage 13: Wanbi vs Frosty.
Wanbi custom-built by Hikima-san is well known as a villain dog character in Robot Robot Professional Wrestling 'Dekinnoka!'. The winner was Frosty.

The 3rd Stage Match
The 3rd Stage 1: Garoo vs NagareGold
The winner was Garoo.

The 3rd Stage 2: HAUSER vs Tokotoko-maru
The winner was Tokotoko-maru.

The 3rd Stage 4: Exserion vs Leghorn
The winner was Leghorn.

The 3rd Stage 5: Chromkid vs Onigiri
The winner was Chromkid.

The 3rd Stage 6: Neutrino-Mega vs Frosty
The winner was Frosty.

The 3rd Stage 7: sw-light4 vs Balt
The winner was sw-light4.

The 3rd Stage 8: Gargoil-mini vs SimpleFighter
The winner was Gargoil-mini .

Quaterfinal Matches
Quarterfinal-1: Garoo vs Tokotoko-maru
Tokotokomaru moved by high speed funs. However, the funs had too high power to control robot. Tokotokomaru fell down from the ring and lost the match. The winner was Garoo.

Quarterfinal-2: Cortejyu vs Leghorn
The winner was Cortejyu.

Quarterfinal-3: Chromkid vs Frosty
The winner was Chromkid.

Semifinal Matches
Semifinal-1: Garoo vs Cortejyu
The winner was Garoo.

Semifinal-2: Chromkid vs Gargoil-mini
The winner was Gargoil-mini.

For 3rd Place Match: Cortejyu vs Chromkid
The 3rd place was Cortejyu.

Final Match: Garoo vs Gargoil-mini
The winner was Garoo. Garoo could keep ROBO-ONE Championship.

ROBO-ONE Light Class (3 kg or Under) of 15th on May 4, 2009 , 17th on March 21, 2011 and 19th on Oct 9, 2011 were also described in this blog.

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ROBO-ONE 20th Biped Robot Fight in Kawasaki (Part 2) 9 m Footrace (Mar 24, 2012)

2012-03-28T08:17:00.000+09:00

ROBO-ONE 20th sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at Institute of Industrial Promotion Kawasaki Hall in Kawasaki City on Mar 24-25th, 2012.

In ROBO-ONE 20th, ROBO-ONE Light 4th took place on Mar 24th, 9 m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Mar 24th and the main event ROBO-ONE 20th tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Mar 25th.

Regulations of ROBO-ONE 20th
The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg. Details of the body regulation were same as those of the 19th.

9 m Footrace

ROBO-ONE 20th was held as the tournament with 50 robots which were winners of the local robot competitions and upper place robots in the preliminary competition, 9 m Footrace.

Nine meters Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 48 robots and to decide the tournament order. Upper 48 robots could attend the tournament. Seventy-three robots including robots which had the right to join the ROBO-ONE 20th joined the preliminary 9 m Footrace.

Robots had to walk 9 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute. Each robot time record taken 9 m walk, or the distance from start point if robot could not walk within 1 minute, or robot fell down from the course was recorded.

Each robot tried just one time Footrace. The 9 m course seemed to be not flat in some parts and the center of the course was pasted sponsor advertise label. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 9 m course for most of robots. A lot of robots ran out of the course including Frosty, which seemed to be the fastest robot. The result is here.

The 1st place was Garoo by Kumama-san, 13.31 seconds, the 2nd place was YOGOROZA by DOUBT-san, 14.12 seconds, the 3rd place was automo 05(Go-Wan) by holypong-san, 14.81 seconds, the 4th place was Mongirouni by GR2-san, 15.68 seconds, the 5th place was HAUSER by Craftman-san, 16.25 and BLACK TIGER NEO, my robot was the 11th place, 30.65 seconds.

Just 34 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 5 robots were 10 seconds, the 6th to 10th robots were 20 seconds, 11th to 23rd were 30 seconds, 24th to 31st were 40 seconds and 32rd to 34th were 50 seconds.

9 m Footrace videos of Upper 4 robots and almost all robot joined ROBO-ONE 20th

The 1st place was Garoo by Kumama-san, 13.31 seconds.

The 2nd place was YOGOROZA by DOUBT-san, 14.12 seconds.

The 3rd Place was automo 05(Go-Wan) by holypong-san, 14.81 seconds.

The 5th Place was HAUSER by Craftman-san, 16.25 seconds.

Entry No.1~16
No.1 Leghorn, No.2 Zakyo-Hi, No.4 Superdhygar, No.5 NagareGold, No.6 Goldthunder, No.7 Gattender, No8. Fantom, No.9 BLACK TIGER NEO, No10 Takarobo, No11 EXA, No12 BioNet, No.13 garoo, No.14 automo 05(Go-Wan), No.15 Ofunjaby Z, No.16 Shisaku-1

Entry No.17~No.38
No.17 Frosty, No.18 Simple Fighter, No.19 Cosmos, No.20 Koruteju, No.21 IGUNIS.FT, No.23 Pi-chan, No.24 HAUSER, No.25 ROBOT FIGHTER PRIMER, No.30 Chromkid, No.31 Osaru-6, No.34 Kurou2gou, No.35 Balt, No.36 Arubis WAN, No.37 Yukikaze, No.38 Fernand

Entry No.39~No.54
No.39 Driler, No.40 hikaru, No.41 Akakage, No.42 Saikoro Great, No.43 Tokotoko-maru, No.44 Onigiri, No.45 Kamikiri, No.46 Difaiant, No.47 DICIDE, No48 AeroBattler, No.49 Rits Gias.zwei, No.50 Rits Gias+, No.52 neutrino-R, No.53 ATLAS, No.54 Exserion

Entry No.55~No.73
No.55 Dekarl, No.56 Gargoil Mini, No.58 O-chan, No.59 marika, No.61 MAXIMUM-JOKER, No.62 JOKER, No.63 RyukiⅡ-O, No.64 Daigakku, No.65 Wanbi, No.66 carpo, No.67 sw-light4, No.68 Neutrino-Mega, No.69 BIGJO, No.70 Nagel, No.73 YOGOROZA

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ROBO-ONE 20th Biped Robot Fight in Kawasaki (Part 1) ROBO-ONE Light 4th (Mar 24, 2012)

2012-03-27T07:56:00.000+09:00

ROBO-ONE 20th sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at Institute of Industrial Promotion Kawasaki Hall in Kawasaki City on Mar 24-25th, 2012.

In ROBO-ONE 20th, ROBO-ONE Light 4th took place on Mar 24th, 9 m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Mar 24th and the main event ROBO-ONE 20th tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Mar 25th.

ROBO-ONE Light 4th

ROBO-ONE Light is robot fight tournament for robots on the market, which are officially recognized by ROBO-ONE Committee. Beginner, who gets robot from the market and want to attend the ROBO-ONE Tournament, also can attend the competition with his robot which is made from just robot kit. Custom-built robot, just the weight 1 kg or under also can attend the tournament. The winner of Light Class gets the right to attend the 20th ROBO-ONE tournament on the next day.

The regulations are as follows;
1) Officially recognized robot regulation
Robots on the market, officially recognized by ROBO-ONE Committee, can attend the competition whether the robot adapt ROBO-ONE 20th regulation nor not. Remodeling is prohibited. Head parts can be remodeled and also covering robot body with plastic or paper is permitted.
2) Robot weight except for the officially recognized robot is 1 kg or under and the robot has to adapt ROBO-ONE 20th regulation.

In the tournament, custom-built robots handicapped by about 500 g compared with officially recognized kits such as KHR-3HV. It was interesting that how builder of custom robot 1 kg or under overcame the weight handicap and which robot kit was able to win the tournament. However, it is necessary for getting championship of robot fight tournament to carry 3 important factors such as good body, good motion and good control.

Thirty-four robots joined the tournament. They were 2 KHR-2HVs, 12 KHR-3HVs including ROBO-ONE Custom, 2 ISAMARO, 8 TINNYWAVEs from KOREA and 10 custom-built robots 1kg or under.

RONO-ONE Light 4th tournament was carried out divided four blocks, all blocks winners were TINYWAVE from KOREA. Custom-built UK1 robot could overcome the weight handicap 500g.
The Champion was ROBOROBO5 (TINYWAVE), the 2nd place was ROBOROBO4 (TINYWAVE) and the 3rd place was ROBOROBO1 (TINYWAVE). The results are here.

The 2nd Stage, ROBOROBO3(TINYWAVE) vs BANBOO-Custom(KHR-3HV). The winner was ROBOROBO3

The 2nd Stage, ROBOROBO4(TINYWAVE) vs Albero(UK1). The winner was ROBOROBO4.

The 2nd Stage, ROBOROBO5(TINYWAVE) vs Hiten(UK1). The winner was ROBOROBO5.

The 2nd Stage, ARUENSHI2(TINYWAVE) vs Banboo(KHR-3HV). The winner was ARUENSHI2.

For the 3rd Place match: ROBOROBO1(TINYWAVE) vs ALUENCHI1(TINYWAVE); The 3rd Place was ROBOROBO1.

Final Match: ROBOROBO4(TINYWAVE) vs ROBOROBO5(TINYWAVE), ROBO-ONE Light 4th champion was ROBOROBO5.

ROBO-ONE Light 1st took place at the same place on Mar 20th, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 2nd on May 22nd, 2010 and ROBO-ONE Light 3rd on Oct 8th, 2011.

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The 10th KONDO BATTLE at ROBOSPOT in Akihabara, Tokyo (Mar. 3, 2012)

2012-03-04T10:03:00.000+09:00

The 10th KONDO BATTLE sponsored by KONDO KAGAKU CO., LTD took place on Mar. 3, 2012 at ROBOSPOT in Akihabara, TOKYO.    The 10th KONDO BATTLE was carried out as Student Class, Open Class and Exhibition Class.   Winner of Student Class and Open Class got the right to join the final tournament of  the 20th ROBO-ONE in Kawasaki on Mar. 25, 2012. The main regulation following the 20th ROBO-ONE was the weight of robot, which had to be 3 kg or under 3 kg.

Twenty-two robots; Student Class 9, Open Class 6 and Exhibition Class 7, joined the competition.
The 10th KONDO BATTLE had 6 tournaments as Student Class Regular Tournament, Open Class Regular Tournament, Exhibition Class Regular Tournament, Student Class Back Tournament, Open Class Back Tournament and Exhibtion Class Back Tournament. Back Tournaments were held by loser of the Rugular Tournaments.

The winner of Student Class Regular Tournament was Kurou-2gou, custom-built by Chiba Institute of Technology Team, Open Class was Gargoil-mini by Yoshida Family, Exhibition Class was Garoo by Kumama-san.   Kurou-2gou and Gargoil-mini got the right to join the 20th ROBO-ONE tournament would be held on Mar. 25, 2012. The winner of Student Class Back Tournament was Cortejyu, Open Class was Chrom-kid and Exhibition Class was Nagare-Gold.

Results are described here.    Videos of the competition were uploaded to IKETOMU Channel. Interesting videos are as follows;

Student Class:
Semifinal: Balt vs Goldthunder. The winner was Balt.

Semifinal: Kurou-2gou vs Nagel. The winner was Kurou-2gou.

Final: Balt vs Kurou-2gou. The winner was Kurou-2gou.

Open Class:
Semifinal: Chrom-kid vs Gargoil-mini. The winner was Gargoil-mini.

Final: Frosty vs Gargoil-mini. The winner was Gargoil-mini.

Exhibition Class:
The 1st Stage: Frosty vs Nagare-Gold. The winner was Frosty.

Semifinal: Garoo vs Frosty. The winner was Garoo.

Open Class Back Tournament:
Semifinal: DeKarl vs BLACK TIGER NEO. The winner was BLACK TIGER NEO. Attacking motions of BLACK TIGER NEO were autonomous and moving motions were radio-control.

The 2nd, 5th and 6th, 7th and 8th KONDO BATTLE were also reported in this blog.

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