ROBO-ONE 20th Biped Robot Fight in Kawasaki (Part 2) 9 m Footrace (Mar 24, 2012)

ROBO-ONE 20th sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at Institute of Industrial Promotion Kawasaki Hall in Kawasaki City on Mar 24-25th, 2012.   

In ROBO-ONE 20th,  ROBO-ONE Light 4th took place on Mar 24th, 9 m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Mar 24th and the main event ROBO-ONE 20th tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Mar 25th.

Regulations of ROBO-ONE 20th
The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg.  Details of the body regulation were same as those of the 19th. 

9 m Footrace

ROBO-ONE 20th was held as the tournament with 50 robots which were winners of the local robot competitions and upper place robots in the preliminary competition, 9 m Footrace. 

Nine meters Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 48 robots and to decide the tournament order.  Upper 48 robots could attend the tournament.  Seventy-three robots including robots which had the right to join the ROBO-ONE 20th joined the preliminary 9 m Footrace.

Robots had to walk 9 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute.   Each robot time record taken 9 m walk,  or the distance from start point if robot could not walk within 1 minute, or robot fell down from the course was recorded.

Each robot tried just one time Footrace. The 9 m course seemed to be not flat in some parts and the center of the course was pasted sponsor advertise label. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 9 m course for most of robots. A lot of  robots ran out of the course including Frosty, which seemed to be the fastest robot.  The result is here.

The 1st place was Garoo by Kumama-san, 13.31 seconds, the 2nd place was YOGOROZA by DOUBT-san, 14.12 seconds, the 3rd place was automo 05(Go-Wan) by holypong-san, 14.81 seconds, the 4th place was Mongirouni by GR2-san, 15.68 seconds, the 5th place was HAUSER by Craftman-san, 16.25 and BLACK TIGER NEO, my robot was the 11th place, 30.65 seconds.

 Just 34 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 5 robots were 10 seconds, the 6th to 10th robots were 20 seconds, 11th to 23rd were 30 seconds, 24th to 31st were 40 seconds and 32rd to 34th were 50 seconds.

ROBO-ONE 19th Biped Robot Fight in Kawasaki (Part 2) 9 m Footrace (Oct 8, 2011)

ROBO-ONE 19th sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at Institute of Industrial Promotion Kawasaki Hall in Kawasaki City on Oct 8-9th, 2011.    The 19th ROBO-ONE which scheduled on March 19-20, 2011 was postponed by East Japan Earthquake.

In ROBO-ONE 19th,  ROBO-ONE Light 3rd took place on Oct 8th, 9 m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Oct 8th and the main event ROBO-ONE 19th tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Oct 9th.

Regulations of ROBO-ONE 19th
The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg.  Details of the body regulation were here.   Video of the regulation check by ROBO-ONE Committee was as follows;



Preparing Robots and Warm-Up in the Backstage
In the 4th floor of Institute of Industrial Promotion Kawasaki Hall, robot builders were preparing their robots and warming up for the preliminary competition, 9 m Footrace of ROBO-ONE 19th tournament.  Video was as follows;





9 m Footrace

ROBO-ONE 19 was held as the tournament with 48 robots which were winners of the local robot competitions and upper place robots in the preliminary competition, 9 m Footrace. 

Nine meters Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 48 robots and to decide the tournament order.  Upper 48 robots could attend the tournament.  Sixty-nine robots including robots which had the right to join the ROBO-ONE 19th joined the preliminary 9 m Footrace.

The 1st ROBO-ONE 9 m Footrace took place at Housquare Yokohama, during Humanoid Helper Project 3rd as the preliminary competition of  ROBO-ONE 19th tournament (Light Class, Under 3 kg) . Winner robot, Deshumit(15.30 seconds) got the right to attend the 19th ROBO-ONE. 

Robots had to walk 9 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute.   Each robot time record taken 9 m walk,  or the distance from start point if robot could not walk within 1 minute, or robot fell down from the course was recorded.

Each robot tried just one time Footrace. The 9 m course seemed to be not flat in some parts and the center of the course was pasted sponsor advertise label. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 9 m course for most of robots. Most of  robots ran out of the course including Frosty, which seemed to be the fastest robot. Just 26 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute.

The winner was automo 05(Go-Wan) by holypong-san. It took 12.88 second. The 2nd place was Balt, 17.69 second. The 3rd place was G-Saaga by Igaa-san, 20.84 second. Details of the result were described here.

9 m Footrace videos of all robot joined ROBO-ONE 19th were as follows;

The 3rd Place was G-Saaga by Igaa-san, 20.84 seond.


The 2nd Place was Balt by Sato-san Chiba Institute of Technology, 17.69 second.


The 1st place was automo 05(Go-Wan) by holypong-san, 12.88 second.


Test robot No.0 and No.1~12
No.0 Test, No.1 Takarobo, No.2 Yokozuna-Great-Shiranui-2daime, No.3 Akakaze, No.4 Brainwalker, No.6 Gattender, No.7 D2, No10 HammerHead, No11 EXA, No12 Raihi


No.13~No.24
No.13 Battistrada tipo04 Hiodoshi, No.15 Super Dhydar Ⅲ, No.16 Leguhorn, No.17 Nonerietto, No.18 LINX, No.19 Neutrino-MEGA, No.20 G-Saaga, No.22 BLACK TIGER NEO, No.23 Box, No.24 Cyclops


No.25~No.34
No.25 Excelion, No.26 Michael, No.27 Neutrino-R, No.28 Gin-kaji, No.29 BIMA, No.30 Chakra, No.31 Corteiju, No.32 Hayabusa, No.33 Thebe, No.34 NITRO


No.35~No.44
No.35 Zaurar-IS, No.36 B-Kaji, No.37 Kurou, No.38 JOKER, No.39 Simple Fighter, No.40 automo 05(Go-Wan), No.41 Chromkid, No.42 Garoo, No.43 eagle-ZERO, No.44 Fantom


No.46~No.56
No.46 Tuerst, No.47 Heirlight, No48 MACHINICLE, No.49 Another Day, No.50 Fanta☆Star, No.51 Fernand, No.52 Balt, No.53 Excelion, No.54 Rits-Gigas, No.56 ARMS ver2.0


No.57~No.69
No.57 Kurenai, No.58 EV-01 Type, No.60 Aerobattler, No.61 WALKER, No.62 August, No.63 Pi-co, No.64 Tokotokomaru, No.67 Kinopy, No.68 Hercules, No.69 Hikaru


No.70~No.77 & No.66
No.70 OmniZero.13, No.71 DeKarle, No.73 Gargoil Revenge, No74 Daigakku, No.75 EinHorn, No.76 Taki Renjiro, No.77 Doka-Fighter, No.66 Frosty


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