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The Arneis robot arm is equipped with a marker pen, to perform writing and drawing actions.  It can produce several thousand portraits a day (it’s not all about clean tech entrepreneurs) and share it’s creations with the audience (as seen in the video above).

The robot receive input from a camera eye and draws whatever is seen thorough the camera. Portrait artists look out Arneis is coming to a street corner near you soon…

Meet HRP-3 Promet Mk-II from Kawada Industries. A robot which will eventually replace many manual jobs performed by humans today. On the market for a cool $3 million he can handle rain, slippery surface, use tools.

The math doesn’t ad up but still would be very cool to have a robot workforce. Wait we have that already we are the robotic workforce!!!

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Great video on Robot Culture in Japan by TokyoEye. Info on where to buy your robot kits in Tokyo and where to meet up with other robot otaku enthusiasts. Also features quite possibly the coolest arcade robot game you have ever seen.

Woahh Robot Fanboys check out this amazing replica model of B9 from Lost in Space on ebay. Starting price @ $15k. You can operate B9 from the inside - just like the original TV robot. The robot took two years to construct and looks more like the original robot than many fan creations. Features included are rotating torso, extendable rubber arms with locking pins, authentic voice-activated neon and sound system, Removable powerpack turns robot on/off. To top it off B9 is signed by Bob May (actor inside original robot). Bid now | Add to watch list

Meet Domo the new upper-torso humanoid robot from the MIT CSAIL Humanoid Robotics Lab. Domo is a robot with functioning, human-like eyes, arms and hands. It is the latest robot from the American developer Aaron Edsinger.

The goal of Domo is to contribute a novel approach to robot manipulation in unstructured environments. The approach is centered on integrating compliant and force sensitive manipulators into a behavior based architecture that accomplishes useful manipulation tasks in human environments.

It is a major advance on assembly-line robots as it can sense its surroundings and does not work to a pre-programmed routine.

You can imagine in the not so distant future robots similar to Domo doing all manual labour jobs on planet Earth! Here at RoboTokyo we are considering starting the RoboForce robot labour agency. We will hire out robotic workforces to factories, offices and domestic households. Is this a viable business plan (outside of Japan) What do you think?

See Domo in Action…

Helping clean up

Helping with chores

Read more at http://people.csail.mit.edu/edsinger/domo.htm

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Here at RoboTokyo we often dream of making our own robots to automate the tasks we do not want to do. We have researched the web for the best robot making tutorials and want to share them with you. Automated life here we come!

9 Tutorials on how to build a robot

How to Build a Computerized Android Robot Head for $600.00

The $50 Robot Tutorial

How to Build a Robot using a Coat Hanger

Build a Robitic Webcam

Make a Paper Robot

How to make a Robot Car

How to design a Robitic Hand

Converting a floppy disk drive into a simple robot

Another Simple Robot Tutorial - The MiniBot

Recommended Reading for budding robot makers Robot Builder’s Bonanza, Third Edition (Robot Builder’s Bonanza).

The Nike Convoy and Black Megatron Transfomer trainers produced by Takara Tomy are available in May 07 (US pre orders are currently sold out).

As soon as we know who is stocking them and for how much we will let you know!

Welcome to our little online magazine dedicated to japanese robot toys. The aim of this web site is to find the coolest toy robots, robot games, robot anime and robot gadgets. We make it easy for you the ‘robot lover’ to buy them! We hope you find what you are looking for!

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