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Old 2003-11-24, 11:17 AM   [Ignore Me] #1
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Martial arts robots hit Asian tech fair


Martial arts robots hit Asian tech fair

17:00 13 October 03

NewScientist.com news service



Humanoid robots capable of performing somersaults and complex martial arts moves were demonstrated at Asia's largest electronics and computing fair in Tokyo on Saturday.

Visitors to CEATEC 2003 (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) met Morph3, a human-like robot about 30-centimetres tall developed by researchers at the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan. It can perform back flips and karate moves thanks to 138 pressure sensors, 30 different onboard motors and 14 computer processors.

Another miniature humanoid robot on display was Fujitsu's HOAP-2. This droid has been programmed to perform moves from the Chinese martial art taijiquan, as well as Japanese Sumo wrestling stances.

HOAP-2 is designed as an aid to robotics research and therefore runs on open source, Linux-based software. Fujitsu believes it will sell between 20 and 30 of the robots to universities and companies in 2004.

But impressive as these high-kicking robots are, Frederic Kaplan, at Sony's robotics laboratory in France, says making more agile robots is not the biggest challenge facing robotics researchers at the moment.

"There are challenges in terms of mechanics still, but the biggest gap would be in intelligence," he told New Scientist. "One of the key things we are looking at now is developmental robotics, where a robot learns."

Video: http://www.automation.fujitsu.com/pr...oducts092.html
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Old 2003-11-24, 11:19 AM   [Ignore Me] #2
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OFN! I have 7 of them now. They are members of the WTF. (World Taekwando Federation)
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Old 2003-11-24, 11:19 AM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Old 2003-11-24, 12:11 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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Newsupdate: The newly formed Robotic Combat League has forwarded a message to us concerning our future as a species:


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Old 2003-11-24, 12:36 PM   [Ignore Me] #5
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Look how small those things are. They're like midget robot ninjas.
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Old 2003-11-24, 02:14 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Old 2003-11-24, 02:51 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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All your planet are belong to us. You have no chance to survive. make your time.. hah hah hah hah.
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Old 2003-11-24, 02:53 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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Originally Posted by Mtx
*mech voice*
All your planet are belong to us. You have no chance to survive. make your time.. hah hah hah hah.
! I hope they don't put a voice module with that recording on it!
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Old 2003-11-24, 03:57 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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very, very cool. Now if we can just grow them up a little and make them walk a little faster, we'll all have personal assistants. 10 years, you watch.
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Old 2003-11-24, 09:57 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Where can I order them? I wanna buy 20 and duct tape knives to their robot hands, and take over my puny state of Rhode Island.
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Old 2003-11-24, 09:58 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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Originally Posted by Strygun
very, very cool. Now if we can just grow them up a little and make them walk a little faster, we'll all have personal assistants. 10 years, you watch.

I got my personal assistant.

www.realdolls.com (NWS Content)
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Old 2003-11-24, 09:59 PM   [Ignore Me] #12
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Originally Posted by Strygun
very, very cool. Now if we can just grow them up a little and make them walk a little faster, we'll all have personal assistants. 10 years, you watch.

Didnt they also say that you could at some point access all information in the world from a computer? Yea, like that'll ever happen.
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