The 16th Robot Survival Game at Mokei-juku, Tokyo (Mar 10, 2013)

The 16th Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on Mar. 10, 2013.  Mokei-juku, for Figure Making Lesson Room was used for the 16th Robot Survival Game Field as the 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th one.

Six robots, Arnold Stallone (Noborizaka),  Denryu (Gons), CR-Cannon (Yoshida), Yabusame (Mota), Combat Creatures (Mota) and XeroTANK (Ninagawa), joined the 16th Survival Game.   All robots were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle).

Robot Survival Games such as Combat Shooting, Duel Fight (10 games) and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in the 16th. Tobby-san and Noborizaka-san uploaded videos of all games in his YouTube channel.  Noborizasa-san also uploaded videos through the camera attached his robot, Arnold Stallone.  Details were also described in Sanzai-san's Blog (1) (2) (3) (in Japanese).  

Combat Shooting :
Combat shooting is a practice game for training of shoot skill.  Robot moves to the shooting place from the starting point and shoots the target. Robot has to go to the shooting place for easy shooting.  The target was a small can covered with aluminum foil in the 16th.  Shooting of the center place of the target got bonus point.

Dual Fight : 
Just 2 robots fight in the field.

 Extermination Battle (Destroy the enemy completely): Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes.

Battle Royal  (Rumble Battle) :
All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes was winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system.

Robot Survival Game was planned by Tanaka-san and Bishii-san. Mobile, not only multi-legged robot or biped robot but also mobile with wheel or caterpillar, which equipped with toy gun, hit sensor and camera system, can join to play survival game. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place at Akihabara, Tokyo on July 19, 2010 and the game takes place every 2 months. Tanaka-san also planned several kind of survival game, such as Extermination Battle, Flag Battle and Fortress Battle.

Trials of the Robot Survival Game were held twice on April 10th and June 13th (1) (2), 2010. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place on July 19th, the 2nd one on Sep 11th, the 3rd one on Nov 20-21st, the 4th one on Dec 11 in 2010, the 5th one on Feb 20, the 6th one on April 17, the 7th one on June 26, the 8th one on Sep 3-4, the 9th one on Nov 26 in 2011, the 10th on Feb 26, the 11th on Apr 29, the 12th on June 24, the 13th on Aug 26, the 14th on Oct 28th in 2012, the 15th on Dec 16th in 2012 and the details were described in this blog.

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The 7th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race (Dec 22, 2012)

The 7th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race took place at ROBOSPOT in Akihabara, Tokyo on Dec 22, 2012.

Eight multi-legged  robots joined the race.   Robot joined were Garutan (Kumama), Metallic Vaio 2012 (Morinaga), Milfy (Matsuo), BLACK TIGER L44 (IKETOMU), WaniWani (KENTA), Hakurou (HERO@Musen-ken), Echo (Yuya) and Dark Liger (Moriken).

A new additional attraction was added in the 7th KONDO LAND because 3 robots cleared 6 attractions in the 6th KONDO LAND.  The 7th attraction is stairs with gate on the last stair.  The gate opens for 15 seconds by pushing the botton in the goal floor as following the picture.  

Robot has to go up staris within 15 seconds.Metallic Bio 2012 tried to going up the stars, however it was very hard to go up the stairs.



The  7th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race Results

Each robot had twice real time record race.  In the 7th KONDO LAND Obstacle Race, no robots clear the course within 3 minutes and no robots charenged the 7th attractions. 

The 1st place was Garutan, the 2nd place was WaniWani.  The MVP was also Garutan custom-built by Kumama-san and Kupapa-san. Garutan was attached a camera system and was controlled through camera in the motan-house. 

Details of the 7th KONDO LAND were described Sanzai-san`s blog  (in Japanese).  The result was described here. The best race video of each robot was as follows;

Garutan, 4-legged robot with camera system by Kumama-san. The 2nd place.

DeAGOSTINI Has Issued `Weekly Robi` with Biped Robot Parts of Robi (Feb 19, 2013)

DeAGOSTINI has issued weekly magazine, `Weekly Robi` with biped robot parts of Robi on Feb 19th, 2013.  The issue was announced in TV commercial on the day.  Robi parts are attached every weekly magazine.   Robot will complete with 70 volumes of magazine. The first issue price is 790 yen including tax. Price of the 2nd issue will be 1990 yen.  The issue attached control board will be 4,990 yen.

Gingmag also introduced the issue of `Weekly Robi` in English.

Tomotaka Takahashi who is well known as robot creator such as CHROINO, FT, ROPID, EVOLTA etc., designed Robi. 

Control board of Vstone Co., Ltd is used for the robot.   Servo motors of Futaba Corporation are used with 20 axes.  Voice-recognizing board and Human-detect-sensor are also attached.  The weight is 1 kg including battery and the height is 340 mm.



DeAGOSTINI  issued weekly magazine, `Weekly Robi` with biped robot parts of Robi on Oct 30th, 2012.  DeAGOSTINI also issued weekly magazine, `Weekly ROBO XERO` with robot parts of ROBO XERO on Feb 8th, 2011.  Robot has completed with 70 volumes of magazine on June, 2012 and the details were described in this blog.

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The 15th Robot Survival Game at Mokei-juku, Tokyo (Dec 16, 2012)

The 15th Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2012.  Mokei-juku, for Figure Making Lesson Room was used for the 15th Robot Survival Game Field as the 10th, 12th, 13th and 14th one.

Four robots, Denryu (Gons), CR-Cannon (Yoshida), XeroTANK (Ninagawa) and Hyakkin-no-Manaita (Tokyo University of Science), joined the 15th Survival Game.   All robot were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle).

Robot Survival Games such as Combat Shooting, Duel Fight and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in. Tobby-san uploaded videos in his YouTube channel.  Details were also described in Sanzai-san's Blog (in Japanese).  

Combat Shooting 1: Denryu
Combat shooting is a practice game for training of shoot skill.  Robot moves to the shooting place from the starting point and shoots the target. Robot has to go to the shooting place for easy shooting.  The target was a small can covered with aluminum foil in the 15th.  Shooting of the center place of the target got bonus point.

Denryu attached  with a new aiming system which moves with camera.  Therefore Denryu could shoot the target from the starting point.  The time was 8 seconds, the 1st place.

ISAMARO Mark Ⅱ, Entry Set was put on the market (Nov 15, 2012)

Robotama.com put ISAMARO Mark Ⅱ Entry Set on the market on Nov 15, 2012.  Entry Set was using low price servo, KRS-4031HV which toque was 13 kg/cm.  Details of KRS-4031HV were reported in this blog.

The specification of ISAMARO Mark Ⅱ Entry Set were as follows:
Height: approx. 350 mm
Weight: approx. 1.9 kg
Degrees of freedom: 19
Actuator: KRS-4031HV (× 19)
Optional: wireless device
Battery: Lithium-polymer
Control board: RCB-4HV
Price: 168,000 yen (including tax)

Robotama.com put ISAMARO as a new robot kit, on the market on April 26, 2010.  The first ISAMARO was using also low price servo, KRS-4024HVS, which torque was 10.5 kg/cm.  Details of the original ISAMARO were reported in this Blog.

Then Robotama.com put ISAMARO Mark Ⅱusing high torque servo, KRS-4032HV on the market in this August.   Two type of kit, RCB-4HV type  and RCB-3HV type were prepared.

The specification of ISAMARO Mark Ⅱ were as follows:
Height: approx. 350 mm
Weight: approx. 1.9 kg
Degrees of freedom: 19
Actuator: KRS-4032HV (× 19)
Optional: wireless device
Battery: Lithium-polymer
Control board: RCB-4HV or RCB-3HV
Price: 333,900 yen (including tax)

ISAMARO and ISAMARO Mark Ⅱ are officially recognized robot kit by ROBO-ONE Committee.  ISAMARO Mark Ⅱgot the 1st prize and 3rd prize in the ROBO-ONE Light 5th taken place on Sep 1st, 2012.  Details of the ROBO-ONE Light 5th were reported in this blog.

ROBO-ONE Light 5th Final Match: Uchiman Z Gold (ISAMARO) vs Baboo-Custom (KHR-3HV Custom). ROBO-ONE Light 5th champion was Uchiman Z Gold by Team Mogu-Mogu. The champion got the right to join the 21th ROBO-ONE Tournament.



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