Human Size Ping Pong Player Robot at IREX2009

[PedroR]

Hi guys

One of our suppliers (Anthony from DMP/Roboard) is exhibiting at IREX2009 and he sent us these pictures of a Human Size Robot capable of playing ping pong.
The Robot is from Vietname and, as I understand, it was not yet fully working today. The live demo is scheduled for tomorrow.



Cheers
Pedro.

[l3v3rz]

Another pic of this from

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn15018-pick-of-the-pictures

[tempusmaster]

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but...

The robot wasn't working at IREX. The ping pong ball is attached to the paddle, at least it was every I went by the booth during the course of the show. The operators had the robot behind a screen almost all the time, and never were able to get it running. They showed a similar robot at IREX 2007, and couldn't get that one running either.

Hi guys

One of our suppliers (Anthony from DMP/Roboard) is exhibiting at IREX2009 and he sent us these pictures of a Human Size Robot capable of playing ping pong.
The Robot is from Vietname and, as I understand, it was not yet fully working today. The live demo is scheduled for tomorrow.



Cheers
Pedro.

[PedroR]

i'm sorry to hear you didn't get to see it working.

as I mentioned in my post, the news I got was that, at the time, the robot was not working yet but should work until the end of irex.

apparently it never did....

too bad as I would really like to have seen some footage of it working.

[tempusmaster]

i'm sorry to hear you didn't get to see it working.

as I mentioned in my post, the news I got was that, at the time, the robot was not working yet but should work until the end of irex.

apparently it never did....

too bad as I would really like to have seen some footage of it working.

Here's what it looked like two years ago at IREX:

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And a more recent version as of February 2009:

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It seems to be a marketing/PR project to generate interest in TOSY's toys and other products.

[limor]

We saw these guys at Neuremberg toy fair last February. They have some odd toy "robots". the big ping-pong player is a marketing thing. they spent a lot of money on marketing. they also showed the shell of a KHR1 style humanoid robot that they said they were planning to sell.
Anyway, I heard only good things about Vietnam's budding high-tec so hopefully we'll see more from them.

[tempusmaster]

... they also showed the shell of a KHR1 style humanoid robot that they said they were planning to sell.

That was probably this one, or an earlier version:





They were only showing the shell and the only info available was on the spec. sheet above, and only in English which was odd for IREX.