King Kizer: ROBO-ONE Champion Robot headed for RoboGames (Video)
I'm happy to announce that King Kizer, the awesome ROBO-ONE Champion robot created by Nao Maru, has signed up as part of the Robot Japan team for their 2012 U.S. Tour with an exclusive engagement at...
View ArticleROBO-ONE Light 4 Humanoid Robot Competition – Pit Area
The ROBO-ONE Light series of competitions was developed to encourage novice humanoid robot builders to participate in the ROBO-ONE initiative. In other words, the ROBO-ONE organizers wanted to attract...
View ArticleInternational Friendships Form At RoboGames
Naoki Maru and Jay Jay Napalan Maru is a key part of the Robot Japan team and the designer of ROBO-ONE champion humanoid robot King Kizer. Napaplan is a talented professional photographer, software...
View ArticleROBO-ONE 21 Humanoid Robot Competition Rules Released
The rules for the next ROBO-ONE Humanoid Robot competition have been released. There are no substantial changes to the rules, though the latest revision includes a new provision prohibiting the use of...
View ArticleKing Kizer Can Knock Your Block Off – Literally (Video)
Nao Maru's ROBO-ONE champion robot, Great King Kizer, caused a real stir after it earned the Best of Show award at RoboGames 2012 last April. Ever since he brought home the Gold Medal, Maru has...
View Article9th Wonderful Robot Carnival this Weekend
My all time favorite humanoid robot competition, the Wonderful Robot Carnival, is scheduled for this Sunday, July 15th, in the Takao area of Tokyo. Unfortunately I'm currently in New York and won't get...
View ArticleROBO-ONE Champion Risks Life and Limb to Save Robot (Photo Set)
I've commented in the past about how ROBO-ONE builders treat their robot creations as if they were children. There is no better example than the amazing acrobatic rescue that Morinaga-san executed this...
View ArticleDr. Guero’s Amazing Tightrope Walking Robot (Video)
Remember Dr. Guero, the robot builder that stunned everyone last year with his bicycle riding Primer-V2 humanoid robot? He's back with another astonishing robot feat. This time his Primer-V4 robot is a...
View ArticleROBO-ONE Light 6 and ROBO-ONE 22 Competition Schedules Announced
The ROBO-ONE organizing committee announced that the 6th ROBO-ONE Light competition will be held Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science in Tokyo. The qualifying...
View ArticleRobot Japan 5 – Photo Set
130106 Robot Japan 5-25, a photo by Robots-Dreams on Flickr. The Robot Japan competitions get better and better each time. The 5th bi-annual event, held last Sunday in Tokyo, was the best competition...
View ArticleKing Kizer Z Designed to Take on and Destroy Full Sized Humaniod Robot...
Nao Maru, the creator of the King Kizer series of ROBO-ONE champion humanoid robots, is taking the game to an entirely new level. As a part of Nippon Television “Real Robot Battle” competition, Maru...
View Article24th ROBO-ONE Competition Regulations Released
The latest revision to the ROBO-ONE humanoid robot competition regulations is online, and surprisingly there is lots of red ink. The ROBO-ONE organising committee always highlights any changes from the...
View ArticleRobosavvy Robotics Founder Limor Schweitzer Featured on Fox Business (Video)
Robosavvy founder Limor Schweitzer was featured on Fox Business discussing the impact of 3D printing on robot design and manufacturing. Schweitzer compared the cost of some well known research...
View ArticleROBOTIS-MINI Faces Tough Opponents at ROBO-ONE Light in Japan (Video)
Although the ROBOTIS-MINI entry level humanoid kit robot is considerably smaller and lighter than the typical ROBO-ONE competitor, it still features speed and agility that ensure that with an...
View ArticleROBO-ONE Light 10 Humanoid Robot Competition Behind-the-Scenes Tour (Video)
Everyone knows how crazy the Japanese are about humanoid robots, but it's hard to really appreciate how extreme the mania is unless you can go behind the scenes and experience it first hand. In...
View ArticleINSIDE ROBO-ONE: Champion Robots Garoo and Chrome Kid Check-in (Video)
While the basic concept underlying the ROBO-ONE initiative is to promote humanoid robot entertainment along with education. over the years many competitors have tried to design robots that take...
View ArticleROBO-ONE Light Robots Practice During Break Time (Video)
The primary ROBO-ONE competitions, ROBO-ONE and ROBO-ONE Light, are held every six months, usually in February and September. At least one set of competitions is held in Tokyo with the other set...
View ArticleSurprising ROBO-ONE Light Robot Design Pushes The Rules (Video)
ROBO-ONE was originally conceived as “Humanoid Robot Entertainment” with the unstated goal of stimulating a whole generation of Japanese, and international, developers to get involved in the humanoid...
View ArticleThunderbolt Robot’s Realistic Walking Comes From Innovative Design (Video)
Humanoid robot walking is difficult, much more difficult than most people think. We assume that it’s easy because we, and most people we know, can do it without thinking. But we forget all the months,...
View ArticleThunderbolt Robot Makes Walking Look Easy (Video)
Yoshihiro Shibata’s Thunderbolt humanoid robot is in a class almost by itself. The robots hip/leg design was based on an original concept developed by Koichi Yoshimura, one of the early ROBO-ONE...
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