Robo-One 9: Robot Competition - OMNIZERO.2

The robot that literally ran away with the top prize in the Demonstration phase of the 9th Robo-One competition held here in Tokyo on March 18-19th, 2006, was OMNIZERO.2, the brainchild of Takeshi Maeda. Not only is the robot a technical tour-de-force, Maeda is also quite a showman. His 2 minute demonstration of the robot's capabilities included putting it to sleep, waking up, running, jumping, posing, and visual object tracking. And, right at the end of his performance, Maeda puts the robot back to sleep and wishes it sweet dreams. OMNIZERO.2 is definitely the 'state of the art' in Robo-One class robots today. For more on OMNIZERO.2 and the latest robot news, information, hacks, photos, and videos with special on-site coverage from Japan, see Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dreams.com

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[zukuzukuzukuzuku]

how does it move so fast!???

[tempusmaster]

OmniZero.2 was designed by Maeda (the fellow talking during the demonstration). He works for VStone - one of the top humanoid robot companies in Japan and built a lot of the Japanese RoboCup entries.

[hsbhotmail1]

cool!

[therealkillaguy]

THAT ROBOT IS SOOOO COOOOOL, i want one haha

[TheNZNick]

Definitely the coolest robot in the whole robo-one tournament series. Even the later models of omnizero aren't as cool.

[Kirschthollar]

holy crap that's awesome.

[mog123noblog]

Takeshi Maeda

[ImGodOfCanada]

That is the coolest fucking robot ive ever seen!!!

Who do i have to give my first born child to so i can get one?

[NegroRafa0Oo]

Que Genio Weon . se pasaron estos Orientales.

[deathtax10]

You should see him in the competition. He friggin rapes his opponent in some round i watched earlier

and along with what neo said, charnel, its just not wise, or logical, to base something on a large scale soley because it works on a small scale. When you would inflate little omni here to the size of your "battle robot", you have to have exact mathematical precision for maintaining the dimensions of the robot, the wiring, etc. So it's not very realistic right now...

[neoreaper99]

This was a pretty impressive display of humanoid movements. I like this little guy...hes got spunk.

Charnelbone...if you ever see this... the reason bigger bots cant move like that is because of weight displacement and other little junk things that we have that a bot just cant seem quite to be able to do.