limor wrote:
but i just don't get this thing.
unstable biped requiring a wire for power with a very decent CPU that does...
what!? text-to-speech, led lights and funny robot arm movements ?
makes you wonder which "research institutes" in Japan are going to volunteer to receive this thing for a mere $3000 and do "research" with this ?
but i just don't get this thing.
unstable biped requiring a wire for power with a very decent CPU that does...
what!? text-to-speech, led lights and funny robot arm movements ?
makes you wonder which "research institutes" in Japan are going to volunteer to receive this thing for a mere $3000 and do "research" with this ?
Fujisoft - the founder of Fujisoft to be more precise - has been the driving force behind robot sumo, a major movement here in Japan, for well over 22 years. The primary participants are technical high schools and vocational colleges. There are around 1,200 robot sumo teams that participate in the annual competitions. Some of the teams go back to the original founding of the robot sumo competitions. Of course the team members change every school year, but the leaders/coaches/professors are the same.
In many quarters, robot sumo is looked on as being a bit 'old fashioned' or out of date. There's been a strong demand from the educational sector for Fujisoft to provide other robot platforms, hence the PALRO.
No serious robotics research institute is going to be attracted to PALRO, but you can bet that many, if not most, of the technical high schools and vocational colleges that are connected to Fujisoft have bought into the program.
Statistics: Posted by tempusmaster — Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:20 pm
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