http://www.robotokyo.com Japanese Robot Toys, Robotic Kits + Robot News Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:46:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Tokyo toy show is in full swing and we are not there .......aarggh! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0p8AEITCo&NR=1[/youtube] The i-sobot @ 2.28 looks like it is going to be a big deal when released (hype?). The one shown in the video is the standard edition which is available any day now ($258). There ... http://www.robotokyo.com/2007/06/29/tokyo-toy-show-2007/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQ8kCgp__c&eurl=[/youtube] 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 ... http://www.robotokyo.com/2007/06/25/japanese-android-goodbye-manual-labour/ 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. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT4UdQ5k-Ek&eurl=[/youtube] http://www.robotokyo.com/2007/06/05/robot-culture-in-japan/ Hasbro are releasing a series of toy electronics that turn into robots known as the 'The Real Gear Transfomers' ala Soundwave style as a tie in with the Transformer Movie (release date July 4th). Some real world functionality wouldn't have gone a miss ie: the camera turning ... http://www.robotokyo.com/2007/06/02/real-gear-transformers/ Meet 'Miuro' (music innovation based on utility robot technology). The new Japanese robot from ZMP. It twists and rolls to iPod tunes in an intricate dance based on complex mathmatics (chaos theory). What makes it special is that it's dancing isn't preprogrammed, but generated by the robot ... http://www.robotokyo.com/2007/06/01/miuro-the-ultimate-virtual-pet/ [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=E0C55PEcj5E[/youtube] This is yet another dinosaur robot which will be a big hitter this Christmas. It has a retail value of $200 (£100) and is the brainchild of Caleb Chung the creator of the furby. What sets this robotic dinasaur from the rest is it's range of activities and emotions that ... http://www.robotokyo.com/2007/06/01/pleo-the-robotic-dinosaur/ [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=-AszD_VtQSA[/youtube] http://www.robotokyo.com/2007/05/31/ns-1-robot/ As mentioned before in an earlier post on our blog we are constantly looking for ways to automate tasks by using robots. Now blogging can take a lot of your time as a lot of you reading this can testify. It is time consuming to locate appropriate ... http://www.robotokyo.com/2007/04/20/nec-automatic-multi-media-blog-creation-robot/ 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 ... http://www.robotokyo.com/2007/04/19/it-does-not-compute-lost-in-space-b9-robot-for-sale/ 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 ... http://www.robotokyo.com/2007/04/18/johnny-5-is-alive-meet-domo-the-humanoid-robot/