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The 3rd ROBO-ONE auto, Autonomous Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Feb 24, 2018)

2018-04-11T12:54:00.000+09:00

The 3rd ROBO-ONE auto sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at Miraikan - National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on Feb 24, 2018.

Footrace of 4.5 m as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Light 16th and ROBO-ONE 32nd Tournament also took place on Feb 24th . Video on Feb 24 was uploaded YouTube ROBO-ONE channel. And the final tournament video of the 16th ROBO-ONE Light and the 32nd ROBO-ONE taken place on Feb 25 was also uploaded ROBO-ONE channel.

The major regulation of the 3rd ROBO-ONE auto were just autonomous robot could join the tournament and the weight of robot, which was 5 kg or under. Details of the body regulation were described in the 32nd ROBO-ONE, the 16th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 3rd ROBO-ONE auto (in English). Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

Twenty-six robots joined the competition. Autonomous 4.5 m footrace was carried out as the preliminary ROBO-ONE auto 3rd.  Upper 16 rotbots including seeded robot could join the final tournament. Just 12 robots could arrive at the goal within 1 minute. The 1st place of the autonomous footrace was KOBIS in 10.40 seconds, the 2nd place was Metallic Fighter in 12.04 seconds and the 3rd place was RP.KIM, DONGHYEON in 17.01 seconds. Autonomous 4.5 footrace video is here.

Autonomous 4.5 m footrace the 1st place KOBIS on the bule course

The tournament winner was  HAM SIHOON custom-built by YELLOWTOOTH, the 2nd place was  King Puni by Osaka Sangyo University Puni, the 3rd place was HAM JIYUN by BLUETOOTH and the 4th place was HYUN MOORIM by REDTOOTH.   Result of the tournament is here.

Otsuka-san uploaded videos of the 3rd ROBO-ONE auto to his YouTube Channel as follows;

The 1st Round: King Puni vs HKOBIS
The winner was King Puni.

Quaterfinal:HYUN MOORIM vs Gerifalte
The winner was HYUN MOORIM.

Final:HAM SIHOON vs King Puni
The winner was HAM SIHOON.

The 1st ROBO-ONE auto took place on Feb 25, 2017 and the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto on Feb 25, 2017. The details were reported in this blog.

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ROBO-ONE 31st Biped Robot Fight Tournamnt (Sep 24 , 2017)

2017-11-07T08:10:00.000+09:00

ROBO-ONE 31st sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at  Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. on Sep 24, 2017.

ROBO-ONE Light 14th and ROBO-ONE auto took place on Sep 23rd and 4.5m Footrace as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 31st Tournament and the main event ROBO-ONE 31st Final Tournament took place on Sep 24th.

The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg. Details of the body regulation were described in the 31st ROBO-ONE, the 15th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto (in English).   Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

One hundred and thirty-eight robots joined the competition. ROBO-ONE 31st was held as the tournament with 48 robots, upper place robots in the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace including winners of the local robot competitions or honor robots.

4.5 m Footrace
Four meters and 50 cm Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 41 robots and to decide the tournament order. Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute.   Each robot time record taken 4.5 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 4.5 m course pasted with thin rubbers in the course, seemed to be not flat. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 4.5 m course for the most of robots.    All robots walked the course within 1 minute, passed the preliminary competition. The result of the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace is here.

The 1st place was Frosty by 4.53 seconds, the 2nd place was HAUSER by 10.37 seconds and the 3rd place was KAGRA-SOU by 10.87 seconds.   Just 51 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 17 robots were under 20 seconds, the 18th to the 27th place robots were under 30 seconds. yk-san uploaded videos of the preliminary competition as follows.

The 2nd place:  HAUSER

The 1st Place: Frosty

ROBO-ONE 31st Tournament (3 kg or Under)

The final tournament winner was Vermilion by SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SRDC. The 2nd place was Speranza by Tateno.  The 3rd place was BJ05 ASURA by Daidou University Old Boy.  The forth place was KOBIS by BISKO. Result of the tournament is here.
Sanzai-san also reported the tournament in his blog (in Japanese).

Semifinal, 1st Game: Vermilion vs KOBIS
The winner was Vermilion .

Semifinal, 2nd Game:  Speranza vs BJ05 ASURA
The winner was  Speranza .

For 3rd Place Game: KOBIS vs BJ05 ASURA
The winner was KOBIS.

Final: Vermilion vs  Speranza
The winner was Vermilion.

ROBO-ONE (3 kg or Under) of 15th on May 4, 2009 , 17th on March 21, 2011, 19th on Oct 9, 2011, 20th on March 25, 2012, 21st on Sep 2, 2012, 23rd on Sep 14-15, 2013 , 24th on Feb 15-16, 2014 , 25th on Sep 13-14, 2014 , 26th on Mar 14-15, 2015, 27th Sep 26-27, 2015 , 28th on Feb 13-14, 2016 , 29th on Sep 24-25th, 2016 and 31st on Sep 24, 2017 were also described in this blog.

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Robot Pro-Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!34` took place in Soka City (Nov 3, 2017)

2017-11-05T08:24:00.001+09:00

Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!34`, sponsored by Omata-san took place in Soka City on Nov 3, 2017 during Soka Chamber of Commerce and Industry Festival 2017. Dekinnoka!34 was the 10th Dekinnoka! in Soka Camber of Commerce and Industry Festival. The 1st Dekinnoka! took place on Nov. 3, 2008 in the Festival.

Five matches started at 2:30 pm. The 1st single match was Afro vs Tokotoko-maru, the 2nd match was Blue-Thunder vs Nagare-Gold, the 3rd match was Reina vs Yukikaze vs Newtrino, the 4th gantlet match was Waroo vs Metallicfighter and the main event, Kanto Interregional Championship was challenger King-Puni vs champoin Saaga. Results are here.

All matches were shown on `YouTube Robot Event Haisin-ya Channel`.
Sanzai-san also reported all matches in his blog (in Japanese).

`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. He planned not only wrestling match but also the back story of each wrestler character such as a real pro-wrestling match.

Robot Pro-Wrestling `Dekinnoka!` took place during 8 years. `Dekinnoka!` has been also supported by the members of Kanto-Robot-Training-Group.

Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6' , Dekinnoka!7' , `Dekinnoka!8` , `Dekinnoka!9` , `Dekinnoka!10`,`Dekinnoka!10.5, `Dekinnoka!11 , Dekinnoka!13, Dekinnoka!16 , Dekinnoka!18 , Dekinnoka!26 and Dekinnoka!30 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 results and videos by clicking each poster of Dekinnoka!

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The 15th ROBO-ONE Light Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Sep 23, 2017)

2017-10-18T09:05:00.000+09:00

ROBO-ONE Light 15th sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. on Sep 23, 2017.

ROBO-ONE Light 15th also took place on Sep 23rd and 4.5m Footrace as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 31st Tournament and the main event ROBO-ONE 31st Final Tournament took place on Sep 24th.

ROBO-ONE Light 15th
ROBO-ONE Light is a 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, can attend the competition with his robot which is made from just robot kit. Custom-built robot, just the weight 1 kg or under (UK1) also can attend the tournament.

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 the 31st ROBO-ONE, the 15th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto (in English).
2) Custom-built robot weight except for the officially recognized robot is 1 kg or under (UK1). Custom-built robot has to adapt the 31st ROBO-ONE, the 15th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto (in English).

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 UK1 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.

Eighty-six robots joined the 15th tournament. More than 45 robots were custom-built robot, UK1 (1kg or under). Other robots were officially recognized robots such as KHR-3HV.

In the 15h tournament, custom-built UK1 robots could not overcome the weight handicap 500g. The Champion, Metallic Fighter by Morinaga-san was a officially recognized robot, KHR-3HV. The 2nd place Simanchu by JGSDF HTS Robot R&D Club was also a custom-built robot, KHR-3HV. The 3rd place Little・puni by Osaka Sangyo University Puni was a custom-built robot, UK1 (1kg or under). The 4th place HAM SIHOON_light by YELLOWTOOTH was also a custom-built robot, UK1. The results are here.

Semifinal 1st Game; Metallic Fighter vs Little-puni
The winner was Metallic Fighter.

Semifinal 2nd Game, Simanchu vs HAM SIHOON_light
The winner was Simanchu

For 3rd Place Match, Little-puni vs HAM SIHOON_light
The winner was Little-puni.

Final Match; Metallic Fighter vs Simanchu
The winner was Metallic Fighter.

ROBO-ONE Light 1st took place on Mar 20, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 2nd on May 22, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 3rd on Oct 8, 2011, ROBO-ONE Light 4th on Mar 24, 2012, ROBO-ONE Light 5th on Sep 1, 2012, ROBO-ONE Light 10th on Mar 14, ROBO-ONE Light 11th on Sep 26, 2015, ROBO-ONE Light 12th on Feb 13, 2016, ROBO-ONE Light 13th on Sep 24, 2016 and ROBO-ONE Light 14th on Feb 25, 2017. The details were reported in this blog.

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The 2nd ROBO-ONE auto, Autonomous Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Sep 23, 2017)

2017-10-17T06:27:00.000+09:00

The 2nd ROBO-ONE auto sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. on Sep 23, 2017.

ROBO-ONE Light 15th also took place on Sep 23rd and 4.5m Footrace as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 31st Tournament and the main event ROBO-ONE 31st Final Tournament took place on Sep 24th.

The major regulation of the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto were just autonomous robot could join the tournament and the weight of robot, which was 5 kg or under. Details of the body regulation were described in the 31st ROBO-ONE, the 15th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto (in English). Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

Twenty-five robots joined the competition. The tournament winner was King Puni custom-built by Osaka Sangyo University Puni. The 2nd place was BLACK TIGER NEO by myself, IKETOMU. The 3rd place was KOBIS by BISKO.  Result of the tournament is here.

My autonomous robot, `BLACK TIGER NEO` also joined the tournament and got the 2nd place.   Almost autonomous robot had sensor system as PSD and/or ultrasonicwave sensor. It was difficult for almost autonomous robot to find the robot in long distance such as 1 m over.

Otsuka-san uploaded videos of the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto to his YouTube Channel as follows;

The 1st Round: Dezafines O Rantan vs HAN SIHOON
The winner was Dezafines O Rantan.

The 1st Round: Golio Hepiarms vs CHO HYEONGCHAN
The winner was Golio Hepiarms.

The 2nd Round: King Puni vs Metallic Fighter
The winner was King Puni.

The 3rd Round: Gattender auto vs King Puni
The winner was King Puni.

The 3rd Round: CHO HYEONGCHAN vs Kobis
The winner was Kobis.

Semifinal 1st Game: BLACK TIGER NEO vs DeCarl
The winner was BLACK TIGER NEO.

Semifinal 2nd Game: King Puni vs Kobis
The winner was King Puni.

Final: BLACK TIGER NEO vs King Puni
The winner was King Puni.

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The 1st Pla-Wrestling Robot Fight, Named After `Pla-Wres Sanshiro` took place in Kawasaki（Aug 19, 2017)

2017-08-23T09:44:00.000+09:00

The 1st Pla-Wrestling Robot Fight sponsored by Ishikawa-san, took place at Sunpian Kawasaki in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Pref. on Aug 19, 2017.

The 1st Pla-Wrestling Robot Fight was named after a Japanese famous animation `Pla-Wres Sanshiro' published as a comic just 35 years ago in 1980s. The book, 14 volumes have been published by Akita Publishing Co., Ltd. on the market. The author, Jiro Ushi and Animator, Minoru Kamiya also attended the competition.

It is the work which junior high school student, Sanshiro Sugata, makes plastic wrestler robot incorporating micro-computer, named Juoumaru. He joined the Pla-Wrestling competition with his robot and fights against a lot of Pla-Wrestler robots.

The major regulation of the 1st Pla-Wrestling Robot Fight was as follows, just Pla-Wrestler robot on the comic or original character robot made for Pla-Wrestling fight could attend the competition. Robot gets the game by fall with three counts or knockdown with ten counts. Details of the regulation were described here.

Fifteen Pla-Wres Robot joined the 1st Pla-Wres Fight. The 1st Pla-Wres Champion was Bionickser by Igaa. The 2nd place was Diener by Poka-tan.

Sanzai-san reported the details with pictures as (1) , (2) in his blog (in Japasense). Nacky also reported all joined robot's pictures in his blog.

The 1st Pla-Westling Robot Fight videos of all competitions were also uploaded by Robot Event Haishinya in their YouTube Channel.

Kazumichi Moriyama, an expert writer of robot reported the 1st Pra-Wres Robot Fight with pictures and videos, and also uploaded videos in his YouTube Channel as follows;

The 1st Round; 6th Game: Nagare-Gold vs King-Kanikan
The winner was Nagare-Gold.

The 1st Round; 7th Game: Bionickser vs Kingkyzer
The winner was Bio-Nickser.

The 2nd Round; 3rd Game: King-Bofemian vs Nagare-Gold
The winner was Nagare-Gold.

The 2nd Round; 4th Game: Bionickser vs Ninjastar
The winner was Bionickser.

Semifinal, 1st Game: Diener vs L-Urakan
The winner was Diener.

Semifinal, 2nd Game: Nagere-Gold vs Bionickser
The winner was Bionickser.

Final: Diener vs Bionickser
The winner was Bionickser.

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The 14th Wandahoo Robot Carnival took place in Tokyo (July16, 2017)

2017-07-20T14:07:00.001+09:00

The 14th Wandahoo Robot Carnival took place at Try+ Bunkyo-Douzaka School in Tokyo on July 16th, 2017. Fourteen robots joined the 14th Wandahoo. The 1st place was TKU-05 Wadatsumi built by Nabe-san, the second place was Melon Juice by Tsubasa Nemoto of JGSDF High Techinical School and the third place was Toujin-Shimanchu by Kazunari Ohota of JGSDF High Techinical School. Results were described in the 14th Wandahoo blog.

Sanzai-san reported the details in his blog (in Japasense).

The 14th Wandahoo videos of all competitions were also uploaded by Robot Event Haishinya in their YouTube Channel.

Program was as follows;

Introduction of Participating Robots
Opening Ceremony
Dash 2000
Bottle Traction
Dice Shot
Cubs
Rumble Fight
Robot Fight, Final Tournament
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.

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
The 9th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Takaonomori Wakuwaku Village on July 15, 2012 :Promotion
The 10th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Takaonomori Wakuwaku Village on Dec 7, 2013 :Promotion
The 11th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Takaonomori Wakuwaku Village on July 20, 2014 :Promotion
The 13th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Sunpian Kawasaki on July 16th, 2016 :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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`Weekly ATOM` with Biped Communication Robot Parts of ATOM was Issued (Apr 4, 2017)

2017-04-07T06:20:00.001+09:00

ATOM Project issued weekly magazine, `Weekly ATOM` with biped robot parts of ATOM on Apr 4th, 2017. The issue was announced in TV on the day.  ATOM parts are attached every weekly magazine.

The robot will complete with 70 volumes of magazine. The first issue price is 830 yen excluding tax. Price of the 2nd issue will be 1843 yen.  The higher price issues will be 2306~9250 yen.

ATOM loads the newest AI which enables to recognize 12 faces and to develop conversation ability and is made by using just a screwdriver.

Concept movie is as follows;

ATOM Project members are KODANSHA, FUJISOFT, TEZUKA PRODUCTIONS, VAIO, and NTT docomo.

Specification of ATOM
Size: height 44 cm, weight 1440 g
External Facing Material: ABS Resin
Axis: 18 (head 2, arm 6, foot 10)
Power Consumption: max 46.8 W
CPU Board: exclusive custom board, Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B)
Input/Output: camera (HD 92M pixel) x1, mike (monaural) x1, speaker (monaural) x1, LED (7 colors) x2, switch, touch sensor, 6 axes sensor, liquid crystal touch panel, display (2.4 inch)
Interface: Wi-Fi802.11 b/g/n (loaded Raspberry Pi 3), USB-A,  power supply connector
Power Supply: AC adaptor (7.8V/6A), built-in battery (Lithium ion battery 3.6V/5800mAh)

Details Function of ATOM are as follows;

ATOM learns the face of the family, 12 person.
ATOM notices by himself for disorder.
ATOM celebrates a birthday.
ATOM introduces himself.
ATOM keeps the message of the family and reproduces in the voice of the person.
ATOM talks hello, thank you, delicious in 60 languages.
ATOM sings a song and dances.
ATOM reads a traditional Japanese playing card.
ATOM reads a picture book with a display.
ATOM does exercises together.
ATOM checks the meaning of words.
Comics are readable.
You can listen to music.
ATOM encourages you.
ATOM shows an animated cartoon.
ATOM is good at `Shiritori`.
ATOM tells the plan of the day.
ATOM teaches sale information.
ATOM walks 0.6 second per stroke.

DeAGOSTINI also announced `Weekly Robi2' advanced type Robi will be issue on June 6th，2017.
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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ROBO-ONE 30th Biped Robot Fight Tournamnt (Feb 26 , 2017)

2017-04-06T06:14:00.001+09:00

ROBO-ONE 30th sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at BANDO KOBE SCIENCE MUSEUM in Kobe City, Hyougo Pref. on Feb 26, 2017.

ROBO-ONE Light 14th and ROBO-ONE auto took place on Sep 25th and 4.5m Footrce as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 30th Tournament and the main event ROBO-ONE 30th Final Tournament took place on Sep 26th.

The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg. Details of the body regulation were described in the 30th ROBO-ONE, the 14th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 1st ROBO-ONE auto.(in English) Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

One hundred and Twenty-eight robots joined the competition. ROBO-ONE 30th was held as the tournament with 65 robots, upper place robots in the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace including winners of the local robot competitions or honor robots.

4.5 m Footrace
Four meters and 50 cm Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 60 robots and to decide the tournament order. Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute.   Each robot time record taken 4.5 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 4.5 m course pasted with thin rubbers in the course, seemed to be not flat. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 4.5 m course for the most of robots.    All robots walked the course within 1 minute, passed the preliminary competition. The result of the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace is here.

The 1st place was Frosty by 4.48 seconds, the 2nd place was Chromekid by 8.20 seconds and the 3rd place was KAGRA-So by 9.26 seconds.   Just 54 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 20 robots were under 20 seconds, the 21st to the 34th place robots were under 30 seconds.

ROBO-ONE 30th Tournament (3 kg or Under)

The tournament winner was King Puni by Osaka Sangyo University. The 2nd place was Chromkid by Kupapa.  The 3rd place was Gargoyle KID by Yoshida Familia .  Result of the tournament is here.

Semifinal, 1st Game: Momotaro vs King-Puni
The winner was King-Puni.

Semifinal, 2nd Game: RP-CHEON, JUNGHO vs Assault
The winner was RP-CHEON.

Final: King-Puni vs RP-CHEON, JUNGHO
The winner was King-Puni.

ROBO-ONE (3 kg or Under) of 15th on May 4, 2009 , 17th on March 21, 2011, 19th on Oct 9, 2011, 20th on March 25, 2012, 21st on Sep 2, 2012, 23rd on Sep 14-15, 2013 , 24th on Feb 15-16, 2014 , 25th on Sep 13-14, 2014 , 26th on Mar 14-15, 2015, 27th Sep 26-27, 2015 , 28th on Feb 13-14, 2016 and 29th on Sep 24-25th, 2016 on were also described in this blog.

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ROBO-ONE Light 14th Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Feb 25, 2017)

2017-04-05T06:16:00.001+09:00

ROBO-ONE Light 14th sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at BANDO KOBE SCIENCE MUSEUM in Kobe City, Hyougo Pref. on Feb 25, 2017.

The 1st ROBO-ONE auto also took place on Sep 25th and 4.5m Footrce as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 30th Tournament and the main event ROBO-ONE 30th Final Tournament took place on Sep 26th.

ROBO-ONE Light 14th
ROBO-ONE Light is a 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, can attend the competition with his robot which is made from just robot kit. Custom-built robot, just the weight 1 kg or under (UK1) also can attend the tournament.

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 the 30th ROBO-ONE, the 14th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 1st ROBO-ONE auto.(in English)
2) Custom-built robot weight except for the officially recognized robot is 1 kg or under (UK1). Custom-built robot has to adapt the 30th ROBO-ONE, the 14th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 1st ROBO-ONE auto.

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 UK1 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.

Ninety-two robots joined the 14th tournament. More than 50 robots were custom-built robot, UK1 (1kg or under). Other robots were officially recognized robots such as KHR-3HV.

In the 14th tournament, custom-built UK1 robots could overcome the weight handicap 500g. The Champion, Little-puni by Puni was a custom-built robot. The 2nd place Simple Fighter light by zeno was also a custom-built robot. The 3rd place Maxy Onepo by Kobe Municipal High School of Science and Technology was a officially recognized kits, KHR-3HV. The results are here.

Semifinal 1st Game; Maxy Onepo vs Little -puni
The winner was Little-puni.

Semifinal 2nd Game, KOBIS vs Simple Fighter light
The winner was Simple Fighter light

Final Match; Little-puni vs Simple Fighter light
The winner was Little-puni.

ROBO-ONE Light 1st took place on Mar 20, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 2nd on May 22, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 3rd on Oct 8, 2011, ROBO-ONE Light 4th on Mar 24, 2012, ROBO-ONE Light 5th on Sep 1, 2012, ROBO-ONE Light 10th on Mar 14, ROBO-ONE Light 11th on Sep 26, 2015, ROBO-ONE Light 12th on Feb 13, 2016 and ROBO-ONE Light 13th on Sep 24, 2016. The details were reported in this blog.

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The 1st ROBO-ONE auto, Autonomous Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Feb 25, 2017)

2017-04-04T06:01:00.001+09:00

The 1st ROBO-ONE auto sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at BANDO KOBE SCIENCE MUSEUM in Kobe City, Hyougo Pref. on Feb 25, 2017.

ROBO-ONE Light 14th also took place on Sep 25th and 4.5m Footrce as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 30th Tournament and the main event ROBO-ONE 30th Final Tournament took place on Sep 26th.

The major regulation of the 1st ROBO-ONE auto were just autonomous robot could join the tournament and the weight of robot, which was 5 kg or under. Details of the body regulation were described in the 30th ROBO-ONE, the 14th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 1st ROBO-ONE auto.(in English) Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

Sixteen robots joined the competition. The tournament winner was Ko-Bis by Bisko. The 2nd place was SunShot by Osaka Electro-Communication University Jiyukobo-HRP. The 3rd place was Garoo by Kumama.  Result of the tournament is here.

My autonomous robot, `BLACK TIGER NEO` also joined the tournament, however he dropped out of the ring and lost the game.   Almost autonomous robot had sensor system as PSD and/or ultrasonicwave sensor. It was difficult for alomost autonomous robot to find the robot in long distance such as 1 m over.

Otsuka-san joined the tournament with his autonomous robot `Babbo-auto` and uploaded reports (1) (2) (in Japanese) of the details of tournament and also all videos of the 1st ROBO-ONE auto to his YouTube Channel.

MiSUMi, a major sponsor company of ROBO-ONE uploaded ROBO-ONE auto highlights as follows;

BIPED ROBOT NEWS JAPAN
Since Oct. 19th, 2009

KRS-6003R2HV, the highest torque (67kg-cm) servo, was put on the market ( Mar 4, 2017 )

2017-04-03T13:34:00.000+09:00

KONDO KAGAKU CO. LTD. put the highest torque (67kg-cm) servo, KRS-6003R2HV ICS on the market on Mar 4, 2017. The characteristics of a new servo are as follows:

1) Using a gear wheel made from special aluminum metal and the third gear wheel made from hard stainless steel:
These gear wheels could endure more than 60 kg torque and make a big power.

2) Attached a heat-sink:
Using a heat-sink as a middle case, makes effective cool of the servo and using aluminum as the upper case makes the case strength improve remarkably.

3) Attaching aluminum clump hone:
Using a driving screw aluminum clump hone could endure overloading. Attaching buried clump hone could make the axis strength improve.

4) Variety of bottom case options:
There is a variety of bottom case option. It is possible to change the bottom case for variety flames.

The new servo is suitable for making a large original robot because of its high torque and variable bottom case options. The new servo is also effective for changing a few servos in general original robots.

Specifications are as follows:
MaximumTorque: 67 kg-cm (11.1V)
Maximum Speed: 0.22s/60°
Length: 32(H) ×51(W) × 39.5(D)mm
Weight: 103 g (excluding horn)
Maximum Moving Angle: 270°
Maximum Current: 6.1 A
Gears: special aluminum metal and hard stainless steel (third gear)
Case Materials: aluminium (top and middle) and Resin including glass (bottom)
Gear Ratio: 362.88:1
Power Supply Voltage: HV(9~12V)
Telecommunication Standard: ICS 3.6 (serial/PMW)
Telecommunication Speed: 115200/625000/125000 bps
Default: ID0/BR115200
Signal Level: TTL
Rotaitional Mode: passable
Control Board: RCB-4HV, RCB-3HV, KCB-5, only PMW use RCB-3J
Interface: Dual USB adaptor HS, ICS USB adaptor HS
Attached Parts: Aluminum clump horn, Cable (400 mm)

Price: One servo package is 25,000 yen, 6 servos packaged set is 133,200 yen, 18 servos packaged set is 370,000 yen (Taxes are excluded)

KRS-6003HV ICS was put on the market on Mar. 4, 2009 and then KRS-6003RHV was put on the maeket which third gear material was changed from aluminium to hard stainless steel and also which ICS was changed 3.0 to 3.5. KRS-6003R2HV which ICS was changed 3.5 to 3.6.

BIPED ROBOT NEWS JAPAN
Since Oct. 19th, 2009

New KONDO Robot KXR Series, KXR-L2 Biped Robot and KXR-L4-R Turtle Robot Will be Put on the Market (Dec. 14, 2016)

2016-12-24T08:12:00.003+09:00

KONDO KAGAKU CO. LTD. announced a new robot series KXR, KXR-L2 Biped Robot and KXR-L4-R Turtle Robot will be put on the market on Jan 26, 2017．

The Concept of KXR series
The KXR series consist of servomotors with two kinds of specification that commonized an external form for replaceable freely depending on a purpose, resin frame parts more than 30 kinds which easily and surely assemble and a control board with the software.

As for the robot kit, it was packaged conventionally such as "biped robot" "turtle robot" or "arm type robot" independently. Therefore, if turtle robot convert to biped robot, it was necessary to design new parts and to compose them.

However, the KXR series can easily rearrange each set to another type robot using a lot of parts prepared. The optional parts such as a radio control apparatus or various sensors are also prepared. Therefore it is easy to make custom made robot using the KXR series.

KONDO is the leading company of hobby robot and the new robot is the third product of KONDO. The first hobby robot, KHR-1 was developed by KONDO and put on the market in 2004. The second one, KHR-2HV in 2006 and the forth one, KHR-3HV in 2009.

Specifications of KXR-2L are as follows:

Kit Content
Tempered resin frame parts
Control Board: RCB-4mini
Servomotor: KRS-3301 ICS ×16
Robo Power Cell E type: 6N-800mAh Ni-MH
Battery charger: BX-32MH
Dual USB Adapter HS
CD-ROM :（Manual & Sample motions)

Operating environment
OS: Windows Vista（SP1） Windows7 8 8.1 10
CD-ROM Drive for software installation
Interface: USB Port （1.1/2.0)

Length: 295(H) x 197(W) x 107(D)mm
Weight: approximately 1100 g including battery
Price: 69,800 yen excluding tax

Specifications of KXR-L4-RK are as follows:

Kit Content
Tempered resin frame parts
Control Board: RCB-4mini
Servomotor: KRS-3301 ICS ×9
Robo Power Cell E type: 6N-800mAh Ni-MH
Battery charger: BX-32MH
Dual USB Adapter HS
CD-ROM :（Manual & Sample motions)

Operating environment
OS: Windows Vista（SP1） Windows7 8 8.1 10
CD-ROM Drive for software installation
Interface: USB Port （1.1/2.0)

Length: 275(H) x 119(W) x 153(D)mm
Weight: approximately 630 g including battery
Price: 45,000 yen excluding tax

Optional Parts
A large number of optional parts are prepared to realize the attractive rearrangement of the KXR series.

As KRS-3301 ICS, the servomotor used in the KXR series is the same size that of KRS-3304 ICS which torque is 13.8 kgf・㎝ higher than 7.5 kgf・cm of KRS-3301 ICS. Therefore, if KRS-3301 ICS changed to KRS-3304 ICS, the movement is more stable.

ROBO-ONE 29th and ROBO-ONE Light 13th Special Web Site Was Opened (Nov.11, 2016)

2016-11-14T12:53:00.001+09:00

The 29th ROBO-ONE and the 13th ROBO-ONE Light Special Web Site sponsored by MiSUMi was opened. The contents are ABOUT ROBO-ONE, MOVIE contained ROBO-ONE 15 matches video and ROBO-ONE Light 16 matches video, and INTERVIEW contained 3 videos of robot builder such as Frosty, the fastest running robot.

ROBO-ONE 29th took place at Kanagawa-kenritsu-Seishounen-Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. on Sep 24th-25th, 2016. ROBO-ONE Light 13th also took place on Sep 24th, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 29th Tournament on Sep 24th. The main event ROBO-ONE 29th Final Tournament took place on Sep 25th.

The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg. Details of the body regulation were described in the 29th ROBO-ONE and the 13th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation. Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

One hundred and Twenty-nine robots joined the competition. ROBO-ONE 29th was held as the tournament with 60 robots, 52 upper place robots in the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace and winners of the local robot competitions or honor robots.

4.5 m Footrace
Four meters and 50 cm Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 60 robots and to decide the tournament order. Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute.  In the 29th, thin rubbers under 10 mm was pasted on the board in the course. Each robot time record taken 4.5 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 4.5 m course pasted with thin rubbers in the course, seemed to be not flat. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 4.5 m course for most of robots.    All robots walked the course within 1 minute, passed the preliminary competition. The result of the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace is here.

The 1st place was Frosty by 4.74 seconds, the 2nd place was Romantic Swordsman by 11.57 seconds and the 3rd place was Neutrino-Rosso by 11.7 seconds.

The 1st place; Frosty 4.74 seconds

Just 44 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 16 robots were under 20 seconds, the 17th to the 28th place robots were under 30 seconds.

ROBO-ONE 29th Tournament (3 kg or Under)

The tournament winner was King Puni by Osaka Sangyo University. The 2nd place was Chromkid by Kupapa.  The 3rd place was Gargoyle KID by Yoshida Familia .  Result of the tournament is here.

Broadcasting service was carried out by niconico LIVE and the videos were keeping in this site.  Kanto Robot Practice also uploaded some videos of ROBO-ONE 29th to their YouTube Channel.

Final Match: King Puni vs Chromkid
The winner was King Puni.

ROBO-ONE (3 kg or Under) of 15th on May 4, 2009 , 17th on March 21, 2011, 19th on Oct 9, 2011, 20th on March 25, 2012, 21st on Sep 2, 2012, 23rd on Sep 14-15, 2013 , 24th on Feb 15-16, 2014 , 25th on Sep 13-14, 2014 , 26th on Mar 14-15, 2015, 27th Sep 26-27, 2015 and 28th on Feb 13-14, 2016 on were also described in this blog.

ROBO-ONE Light 13th

ROBO-ONE Light is a 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, can attend the competition with his robot which is made from just robot kit. Custom-built robot, just the weight 1 kg or under (UK1) also can attend the tournament.

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 29th and Light 13th regulation .
2) Custom-built robot weight except for the officially recognized robot is 1 kg or under (UK1). Custom-built robot has to adapt ROBO-ONE 29th and Light 13th 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 UK1 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.

Seventy-six robots joined the 13th tournament. More than 45 robots were custom-built robot, UK1 (1kg or under). Other robots were officially recognized robots such as KHR-3HV.

In the 13th tournament, custom-built UK1 robots could not overcome the weight handicap 500g. The Champion, GANGA by Ataro, was a officially recognized kits, KHR-3HV. The 2nd place Simple Fighter light by zeno was a custom-built robot. The 3rd place OneShot by Osaka Electro-Communication University JiyukoubouHRP was a custom-built robot. The 4th place Momotaro by Osaka Sangyo University was also a custom-built robot. The results are here.

Broadcasting service was carried out by niconico LIVE and the videos were keeping in this site. Osuka-san also uploaded some videos of ROBO-ONE Light 13th to his YouTube Channel.

For the 3rd Place Match; Momotaro vs OneShot
The winner was OneShot. Oneshot won using a major throwing technique.

Final Match; Simple Fighter light vs GANGA
The winner was GANGA.

ROBO-ONE Light 1st took place on Mar 20, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 2nd on May 22, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 3rd on Oct 8, 2011, ROBO-ONE Light 4th on Mar 24, 2012, ROBO-ONE Light 5th on Sep 1, 2012, ROBO-ONE Light 10th on Mar 14, ROBO-ONE Light 11th on Sep 26, 2015 and ROBO-ONE Light 12th on Feb 13, 2016. The details were reported in this blog.

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

Robot Pro-Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!30` took place in Soka City (Nov 3, 2016)

2016-11-05T19:28:00.001+09:00

Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!30`, sponsored by Omata-san took place in Soka City on Nov 3, 2016 during the 25th Soka Chamber of Commerce and Industry Festival 2016. Dekinnoka!30 was the 10th Dekinnoka! in Soka Camber of Commerce and Industry Festival. The 1st Dekinnoka! took place on Nov. 3, 2008 in the Festival.

Six matches started at 2:30 pm. One pre-match and 5 matches were carried out in the 30th. The openinng single match was Kagura vs Yukikaze, the 1st single match was Afro vs Tokotoko-maru, the 2nd match was Galapy vs Kumataro and the 3rd match was Kanto Regional Championship, challenger Metalic-fighter vs champion Newtrino.

The 4th match was tag match, Birinyan-kid, Engel-Kizer and King-Kizer, these three robots joining Kansai Robo-wrestling TeamBambi vs Ryuketsu-kamen, Waroo and Akiba-Kizer. The main event was Kanto Robot Heavy Weight Championship, challenger Yogoroza vs champion Saaga.

Results of all matches were reported here. NHK Capital Region News put the news of Robot Pro-Wrestling on the air. AbemaTV also put the news of on the air. Sanzai-san also reported the detail of mathes (in Japanese).

The most interesting match was the 4th tag match. King Kizer had a trick in professional wrestling, called dropkick to Ryuketsu-kamen as the follow picture and in the following video at 8 minutes and 14 seconds.

A new type Saaga attached wheels in the foot, kept the Kanto Heavy Weight Championship in 8 times as the table following the main event match video.

`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. He planned not only wrestling match but also the back story of each wrestler character such as a real pro-wrestling match.

Robot Pro-Wrestling `Dekinnoka!` took place during 8 years. `Dekinnoka!` has been also supported by the members of Kanto-Robot-Training-Group.

Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6' , Dekinnoka!7' , `Dekinnoka!8` , `Dekinnoka!9` , `Dekinnoka!10`,`Dekinnoka!10.5, `Dekinnoka!11 , Dekinnoka!13, Dekinnoka!16 , Dekinnoka!18 and Dekinnoka!26 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 results and videos by clicking each poster of Dekinnoka!

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

ROBO-ONE 29th Biped Robot Fight Tournamnt (Sep 24-25 , 2016)

2016-10-02T07:32:00.000+09:00

ROBO-ONE 29th sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at Kanagawa-kenritsu-Seishounen-Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. on Sep 24th-25th, 2016. ROBO-ONE Light 13th took place on Sep 24th, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 29th Tournament on Sep 24th and the main event ROBO-ONE 29th Final Tournament took place on Sep 25th.

One hundred and Twenty-nine robots joined the competition. ROBO-ONE 29th was held as the tournament with 60 robots, 52 upper place robots in the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace and winners of the local robot competitions or honor robots.

4.5 m Footrace
Four meters and 50 cm Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 60 robots and to decide the tournament order. Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute.  In the 29th, thin rubbers under 10 mm was pasted on the board in the course. Each robot time record taken 4.5 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 4.5 m course pasted with thin rubbers in the course, seemed to be not flat. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 4.5 m course for most of robots.    All robots walked the course within 1 minute, passed the preliminary competition. The result of the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace is here.

The 1st place was Frosty by 4.74 seconds, the 2nd place was Romantic Swordsman by 11.57 seconds and the 3rd place was Neutrino-Rosso by 11.7 seconds.

The 1st place; Frosty 4.74 seconds

Just 44 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 16 robots were under 20 seconds, the 17th to the 28th place robots were under 30 seconds.

ROBO-ONE 29th Tournament (3 kg or Under)

The tournament winner was King Puni by Osaka Sangyo University. The 2nd place was Chromkid by Kupapa.  The 3rd place was Gargoyle KID by Yoshida Familia .  Result of the tournament is here.

Broadcasting service was carried out by niconico LIVE and the videos were keeping in this site.  Kanto Robot Practice also uploaded some videos of ROBO-ONE 29th to their YouTube Channel.

Quarterfinal, 3rd Match: Gargoyle KID vs Garoo
The winner was Gargoyle KID.

Final Match: King Puni vs Chromkid
The winner was King Puni.

Presentation video of ROBO-ONE History also took place on Sep 25th as follows;

Introduce of the ROBO-ONE 23rd to 25th on TV.

ROBO-ONE (3 kg or Under) of 15th on May 4, 2009 , 17th on March 21, 2011, 19th on Oct 9, 2011, 20th on March 25, 2012, 21st on Sep 2, 2012, 23rd on Sep 14-15, 2013 , 24th on Feb 15-16, 2014 , 25th on Sep 13-14, 2014 , 26th on Mar 14-15, 2015, 27th Sep 26-27, 2015 and 28th on Feb 13-14, 2016 on were also described in this blog.

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

ROBO-ONE Light 13th Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Sep 24, 2016)

2016-09-30T11:15:00.000+09:00

ROBO-ONE Light 13th sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at Kanagawa-Kenritsu-Seishounen-Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. on Sep 24th, 2016. ROBO-ONE Light 13th took place on Sep 24th, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 29th Tournament on Sep 24th and the main event ROBO-ONE 29th Final Tournament took place on Sep 25th.

ROBO-ONE Light 13th

A New Robot Controller, RCB-4mini Was Put on the Market by KONDO (Aug 15, 2016)

2016-08-15T19:29:00.000+09:00

KONDO KAGAKU Co. Ltd put a new small robot controller, RCB-4mini on the market Aug 15, 2016. It seems to be useful for using KONDO small servo such as KRS-3304 or KRS-3301 and for a small custom-built robot as UK1 (under 1 kg) robot. The new controller is using HeartToHeart4 (HTH4) as the software the same as RCB-4HV. The price including all systems is 9,800 yen (excluding tax).

On the other hand KONDO robot controlling boards, RCB-3HV and RCB-4HV are for standard size robot (1 kg to 3 kg) such as KHR-3HV or custom-built robots.

Specifications are as follows;

Size: 35 x 30 x 12 mm
Weight: 7.6 g
Power supply voltage: 6 ~ 12 V
Servo: Serial servo only such as KRS-3304, KRS-3301
Communication standard: ICS3.0/3.5/3.6
Communication speed: 115200/625000/1250000
Signal level: TTL
ICS maximum connectable number: 36
Conection method: daisychain
SIO terminal: 6 (2 series x3)
AD terminal: 5
PIO: 0
COM port: 1
Terminal: ZH connector
Software: HeartToHeart4
OS: Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10　32/64bit
Set including: Power supply cable x1, ZH cable x1

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

A New Small KONDO Servo, KRS-3301 ICS, Put on the Market (Aug 3, 2016)

2016-08-07T08:28:00.002+09:00

KONDO KAGAKU CO. LTD. announced a new small servo, KRS-3301 ICS put on the market on Aug 3, 2016.

KRS-3301 ICS is a small servo of cube type design, the same size of KRS-3304 ICS. The servo is using a coreless motor and the output maximum torque is 6.0 kgf・cm (7.4 V) of the standard-class with the mini-servo. Resinous gears are adopted to move the servo smooth and noiseless when the servos are used in the biped robot.

The servo ships out the beginning of Aug, 2016 and is gotten from KONDO web shop or robot shops.

Specifications are as follows:
Torque: 6.0 kgf・cm, Speed 0.14s/60° (7.4V)
Torque: 4.9 kgf・cm, Speed 0.16s/60° (6.0V)
Length: 32.5(H) ×26(W) × 26(D) mm
Weight: 26.4 g (excluding cable and servo-horn)
Maximum movement angle: 270° (+-135°)
Gear kind: Resin gear
Case materials: Resin
Gear ratio: 269.92:1
Power supply voltage: 6-7.4V
Cable: Detachable, 300 mm
Connector: ZH Connector
Communication standard: ICS3.5 (Serial /PWM choice type)
Communication Speed: 115200/625000/1250000bps
Controller: RCB-3HV, RCB-4HV, KCB-5 and RCB-3J(PWM only)
Price: One servo package is 3,800 yen (Excluding tax)
Six servos package is 19,800 yen (Excluding tax)

Attentions for using this servo are as follows:
※This product is a servo for 6-7.4V. It does not support battery for HV.
※The cable is detachable.
※When you use it by Ni-MH5 cell (6V), the combination of RCB-4HV/3HV and Li-Fe2 cell (6.6V), please use booster 3 (voltage up circuit). In the case of the use, it is not particularly necessary in Li-Po2 cell (7.4V).
※The initial setting is PWM mode. When you use it with a serial number, you use Dual USB adapter HS or ICS USB adapter HS and ICS manager software, and please set mode reshuffling and the ID number. Because it is PWM mode at the time of the shipment, even the microcomputer board of other companies is just connected and is available.

KONDO KAGAKU CO. LTD. also put a new small servo, KRS-3304 ICS on the market late in Feb, 2015. The servo is a small one of the cube type design. The details were described in this blog.

Robot Pro-Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!27` took place in Hida-Kamioka (July 17, 2016)

2016-07-19T06:38:00.001+09:00

Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!27` took place at "Hida-Kamioka Funatuza" in Hida City, Gifu during on July 17, 2016. The 1st stage started 1:15 pm and the 2nd stage started 4:15 pm (JST).

`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.

The matches were shown on `YouTube Hida-Shin Supporter Channel`.

The 1st stage video The 2nd stage video

Wrestling Matches of each stage scheduled was as follows;

Opening Match:

NAGARE GOLD vs BLUE THUNDER

The 2nd Match:

YONDA vs RYUKETSU KAMEN vs TOKOTOKO MARU

The 3rd Match:

KUMA TARO vs METALIC FIGHTER

Main Event:

NEWTRINO vs Waroo

Robot Pro-Wrestling `Dekinnoka!` took place during 9 years. `Deknnoka!` has been also supported by the members of Kanto-Robot-Training-Group.

Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6' , Dekinnoka!7' , `Dekinnoka!8` , `Dekinnoka!9` , `Dekinnoka!10`,`Dekinnoka!10.5, `Dekinnoka!11 , Dekinnoka!13, Dekinnoka!16 , Dekinnoka!18 and Dekinnoka!26 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 results and videos by clicking each poster of Deinnoka!

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

The 13rd Wandahoo Robot Carnival took place in Kawasaki City on July 16th, 2016

2016-07-18T08:32:00.001+09:00

The 13rd Wandahoo Robot Carnival took place at Sunpian Kawasaki in Kawasaki City on July 16th, 2016. Eighteen robots joined the 13th Wandahoo. The competition was shown on `Ustream Wandahoo Robot Carnival` from 12:00 to 17:00, July 16th 2016. (JST).

The 1st place was Dark-Thunder built by Moriken-san, the second place was Goulio by Goba-san and the third place was Sakura-2gou by Yoshida-familia.

Sanzai-san reported the details in his blog (in Japasense).

`Ustream Wandahoo Robot Carnival` is also keeping videos of all competitions.

Program was as follows;
12:00 Introduction of Participating Robots
12:20 Opening Ceremony
12:30 Dash 2000
13:10 Bottle Traction
14:20 Dice Shot
15:10 Cubs
15:35 Rumble Fight
16:00 Robot Fight, Final Tournament
16:30 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.

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
The 9th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Takaonomori Wakuwaku Village on July 15, 2012 :Promotion
The 10th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Takaonomori Wakuwaku Village on Dec 7, 2013 :Promotion
The 11th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Takaonomori Wakuwaku Village on July 20, 2014 :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

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

Promotion of Robot Pro-Wrestling Match: `Dekinnoka!27` will take place in Hida-Kamioka, Gifu on July 17, 2016

2016-07-04T09:49:00.001+09:00

Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!27` will take place at "Hida-Kamioka Funatuza" in Hida City, Gifu during on July 17, 2016. The 1st stage starts 1:15 pm and the 2nd stage starts 4:15 pm (JST).

The matches will be shown on `YouTube Hida-Shin Supporter Channel` from 3 pm to 5 pm (JST).

`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.

Promotion Vide of the 'Dekinnoka!27'
Wrestling Matches of each stage scheduled are as follows;

Opening Match:

NAGARE GOLD vs BLUE THUNDER

The 2nd Match:

YONDA vs RYUKETSU KAMEN vs TOKOTOKO MARU

The 3rd Match:

KUMA TARO vs METALIC FIGHTER

Main Event:

NEWTRINO vs Waroo

ROBO-ONE Light 12th Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Feb 13, 2016)

2016-02-22T09:42:00.000+09:00

ROBO-ONE Light 12th sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at TSUKUBA CAPIO in Tsukuba City, Ibaragi Pref. on Feb 13th, 2016. ROBO-ONE Light 12th took place on Feb 13th, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Tournament on Feb 13th and the main event ROBO-ONE 28th Final Tournament took place on Feb 14th.

ROBO-ONE Light 12th

ROBO-ONE Light is a 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, can attend the competition with his robot which is made from just robot kit. Custom-built robot, just the weight 1 kg or under (UK1) also can attend the tournament.

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 28th and Light 12th regulation .
2) Custom-built robot weight except for the officially recognized robot is 1 kg or under (UK1). Custom-built robot has to adapt ROBO-ONE 28th and Light 12th 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 UK1 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.

Seventy-one robots joined the 12th tournament. More than 38 robots were custom-built robot, UK1 (1kg or under). Other robots were officially recognized robots such as KHR-3HV.

Custom-built UK1 robots could overcome the weight handicap 500g. The Champion, IGNIS by Kobe Science Technological High School, was a custom-built robot. The 2nd place gyu by gyu was TinyWave, a officially recognized robot. The 3rd place i-Koi BRA by i-Koi was a custom-built robot. The 4th place koi mini 2 by LEE JOOWON was also a custom-built robot. The results are here.

Biped Robot Association uploaded videos of ROBO-ONE Light 12th to YouTube ROBO-ONE Channel. Sanzai-san reported the details of the 12th in his blog (in Japanese).

Semifinal 1st Match; koi mini2 vs gyu
The winner was gyu.

Semifinal 2nd Match; CHAE, JONGWOOK2 vs i-Koi BRA
The winner was i-Koi BRA.

For the 3rd Place Match; koi mini2 vs i-Koi BRA
The winner was i-Koi BRA .

Final Match; gyu vs IGNIS
The winner was IGNIS.

ROBO-ONE Light 1st took place on Mar 20, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 2nd on May 22, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 3rd on Oct 8, 2011, ROBO-ONE Light 4th on Mar 24, 2012, ROBO-ONE Light 5th on Sep 1, 2012, ROBO-ONE Light 10th on Mar 14 and ROBO-ONE Light 11th on Sep 26, 2015. The details were reported in this blog.

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

ROBO-ONE 28th Biped Robot Fight Tournamnt (Feb 13-14 , 2016)

2016-02-17T09:44:00.001+09:00

ROBO-ONE 28th sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at TSUKUBA CAPIO in Tsukuba City, Ibaragi Pref. on Feb 13th and 14th, 2016. ROBO-ONE Light 12th took place on Feb 13th, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Tournament on Feb 13th and the main event ROBO-ONE 28th Final Tournament took place on Feb 14th.

Regulations of ROBO-ONE 28th
The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg. Details of the body regulation were almost the same as those of the 27th. Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

ROBO-ONE 28th was held as the tournament with 49 robots, 45 upper place robots in the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace including winners of the local robot competitions or honor robots.  One hundred and Twenty robots joined the competition.

4.5 m Footrace
Four meters and 50 cm Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 49 robots and to decide the tournament order. Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute.  In the 28th, thin rubbers under 2 mm was pasted on the board in the course. Each robot time record taken 4.5 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 4.5 m course pasted with thin rubbers in the course, seemed to be not flat. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 4.5 m course for most of robots.    All robots walked the course within 30 seconds, passed the preliminary competition. The result of the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace is here.

The 1st place was Frosty by 3.79 seconds, the 2nd place was HAUSER by 9.65 seconds and the 3rd place was Lio by 10.01 seconds.

The 1st place; Frosty 3.79 seconds

Just 66 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 20 robots were under 20 seconds, the 21st to 45th place robots were under 30 seconds and the 45th could join final fight by 29.48 seconds.

Sanzai-san also reported results (in Japanese).

ROBO-ONE 28th Tournament (3 kg or Under)

The tournament winner was Gargoyle KID by Yoshida Familia. The 2nd place was Leghorn by Nakayan. The 3rd place was Chromkid by Kupapa. The winner Gargoyle IKD has semi-autonomous attack system. Result of the tournament is here.

All videos of ROBO-ONE 27th tournament were uploaded to Youtube ROBO-ONE Channel by Biped Robot Association. Sanzai-san also reported the details of results.

Videos of the semifinal, for 3rd place and final matches were as follows;

Semifinal, 1st Match: Chromkid vs Leghorn
The winner was Leghorn.

Semifinal, 2nd Match: Gargoyle KID vs Kikyo
The winner was Gargoyle KID.

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

Final Match: Leghorn vs Gargoyle KID
The winner was Gargoyle KID.

ROBO-ONE (3 kg or Under) of 15th on May 4, 2009 , 17th on March 21, 2011, 19th on Oct 9, 2011, 20th on March 25, 2012, 21st on Sep 2, 2012, 23rd on Sep 14-15, 2013 , 24th on Feb 15-16, 2014 , 25th on Sep 13-14, 2014 , 26th on Mar 14-15, 2015 and 27th Sep 26-27, 2015 on were also described in this blog.

Since Oct. 19th, 2009

Robot Pro-Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!26` took place in Soka City (Nov 3, 2015)

2015-11-09T14:34:00.000+09:00

Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!26`, sponsored by Omata-san took place in Soka City on Nov 3, 2015 during Soka Fusasara Festival 2015. Two pre-matches and 4 matches were carried out in the 26th. Six matches started at 2:15 pm. Results of all matches were reported here and details were also reported in Sanzaisan's blog (in Japanese).

The 1st pre-match: Zellfar vs Billy-nyan Kid. The winner was Billy-nyan Kid.

Opening Match: Shisenkai Battle Royal by Afuro, Tokotokomaru, Metalic-Fighter, R-Blue, Kumataro. The winner was Kumataro.

`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. He planned not only wrestling match but also the back story of each wrestler character such as a real pro-wrestling match.

Robot Pro-Wrestling `Dekinnoka!` took place during 8 years. `Deknnoka!` has been also supported by the members of Kanto-Robot-Training-Group.

Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6' , Dekinnoka!7' , `Dekinnoka!8` , `Dekinnoka!9` , `Dekinnoka!10`,`Dekinnoka!10.5, `Dekinnoka!11 , Dekinnoka!13, Dekinnoka!16 and Dekinnoka!18 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 results and videos by clicking each 28 poster of Deinnoka!

Since Oct. 19th, 2009