The 10th ROBO-ONE robot competition took place September 16/17th in Nagai, Japan. The final match to determine the championship was between Ivre and King Kizer. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
The final match of the two day competition pitted Dr. GIY's Yokozuna Great robot against Chrome Kid. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
ROBO-ONE Gran Prix 2007 - Retro vs. King Kizer. Play close attention right around the 46 second mark for some really surprising robot wrestling action. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
During the initial demonstration phase of the ROBO-ONE 11 robot competition held in Tokyo on March 24, 2007, OmniZero.4 totally blew away the competition and wowwed the audience. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
On the last working day of 2007 a bunch of humanoid robot builders gathered at Kondo RoboSpot in Akihabara to share the year-end spirit, and get a little more robot soccer practice under their belts. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The AKIBA Robot Festival 2006 was held November 3-5 in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. Sunday's main event was the KondoCup Robot Soccer matches. This video clip features the 'Open Class' robots which are original humanoid ROBO-ONE type designs using Kondo servos. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
Speecys is developing humanoid robots capable of body language and expressing human emotions. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The Robots Dreams "Super" selections feature some of what we think are the coolest robot moves made during competitions like ROBO-ONE here in Japan. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
JR Robotics introduced the new RB-2000 series of humanoid robots at the 2006 All Japan Plastic Model/Radio Control show in Chiba, Japan this week. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
ROBO-ONE bouts are gradually becoming more realistic and human like. These examples were captured during ROBO-ONE 12 (September 2007) in Takamatsu, Japan. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
Futaba unveiled their new humanoid robot simultaneous in Japan and the US at major hobby shows last week. The robot has 20 degrees of freedom and is expected to have a US street price of around $1,200. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The KondoCup Robot Soccer competition was held November 5, 2006 in Akihabara. This video features the 'Kondo' classification including KHR-1 and KHR-2HV robots. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The i-SOBOT's voice recognition and speech capabilities are extremely advanced in this price range. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
YOGOROZA-V, one of the top ROBO-ONE humanoid robots, turned in a dance performance last Saturday at the ROBO-ONE 14 competition in Yokohama that should have Michael Jackson worried. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The amazingly realistic female android, named Actroid DER 2, was demonstrated at the AKIBA Robot Festival here in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The ROBO-ONE Grand Prix 2007 series kicked off in Chiba this month starting with some really amazing demonstrations by the top championship level robots. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
Battle Ball game first introduced at the ROBO-ONE Special 4 event held on August 6, 2006 in Kawasaki. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
The Robo-One Battle Robot Grand Prix was held in Tokyo this December, and the winner was The Great Majingaa. This video clip shows its three matches, and how it dominated the event. For more robot news, information, hacks, photos, and videos, see http://www.robots-dr eams.com.
The AIST HRP-2 Humanoid Robot project at Tsukuba, Japan. Video clip courtesy Y. Nakagawa with RT Corporation. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams.com
One of the most oustanding demonstrations at the Kyosho Athlete Humanoid Cup competition was staged by Dr. GIY of ROBO-ONE fame, and featured twin MANOI AT01 robots doing a music video. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dr eams