DeAGOSTINI issued weekly magazine, `Weekly Robi` with biped robot parts of Robi on Oct 30th, 2012. 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 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.
Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!11`, sponsored by Omata-san will take place in Soka City on Nov 3rd, 2012 during Soka Fusasara Festival 2012. The 1st stage (open rehearsal) takes place 10:15 am to 11:45, the 2nd stage (open rehearsal) 12:15 pm to 13:45 pm and the 3rd stage (the performance) 14:15 pm to 15:45 (JST).
The matches will be shown on `Ustream Dekinnoka Channel`. My custum-built robot `BLACK TIGER NEO` also will join as `Nagare BLACKTIGER`.
In the case of bad weather, `Dekinnoka!11` will be held at Robotoma, a robot shop in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo on the day. The matches also will be shown on the Robotoma Ustream Channel.
Dekinnoka!11 PV -『Tenkaneji Budokai 3rd』
(Best Martial Arts Screw Tournament On Earth)
Eight robots join the tournament. Each robot has one Dragon Screw and the winner of each match can get all screws. Fighting rule is as follows; the winner is the robot which drops out of the ring or knocks down his opponent. The winner of the tournament, robot gotten 8 screws can call Nejiron, God of Screw. Nejiron will answer the winner's request. These story is similar to that of `Dragon Ball`.
President Mister Tamao of Robot Pro-Wrestling, who is Omata-san planned not only wrestling match but also the back story of each wrestler character such as a real pro-wrestling match.
Wrestling Matches of each stage scheduled are as follows; Openning Match :Dark Match
Metallic-Fighter vs Haruo Tenkaneji Budokai (Best Martial Arts Screw Tournament On Earth) The 1st Match:Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage Yukikaze vs Nagare-Yellow The 2nd Match: Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage Newtrino vs Wanda Hoo The 3rd Match: Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage Nagare-BLACKTIGER vs Zerfar The 4th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage Thunderbolt vs Nagare-Gold The 5th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai Semifinal
Winner of the 1st Match vs Winner of the 2nd Match The 6th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai Semifinal
Winner of the 3rd Match vs Winner of the 4th Match The 7th Match: Dekinnoka! Special Match (1:4 Handicup Match)
Kyonkyon-kamen vs Ryuketsu-48 The 8th Match: Dekinnoka! Special Match
Waroo vs Wanbi The 9th Match: Tenaneji Budokai Final
Winner of the 5th Match vs Winner of the 6th Match Announcement of the wish by the winner of Tenkaneji Budokai to `Nejiron` The 10th Match: Final
Champion Great Saaga vs the winner of Tenkaneji Budokai
`Dekinnoka!` in Japanese, means `Can you do it?`. As Omata-san has been loving real professional wrestling, the 1st Robot Professional Wrestling in Soka on Nov. 3rd, 2008 was planned and held by him. He explained the 'Robot Professional Wrestling' was not 'Wrestling' but 'Fighting Arts'. The purpose of `Dekinnoka!` was not only robot fight but also to inform pleasure of robot.
The 13th Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2012. Mokei-juku, for Figure Making Lesson Room was used for the 13th Robot Survival Game Field as the 10th and 12th one.
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.
Six robots joined the 13th Survival Game were divided into two teams. Gons-san team members were Denryu (Gons), Pakkan (Kamiya) and Aigis (Tanaka). Noborizaka-san team were Stallone (Noborizaka), Yabusame (Mota) and Milfy (Matsuo). All robot were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle).
Robot Survival Games such as Combat Shooting, Extermination Battle, Flag Battle, Hamburger Hill and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in the 13th Robot Survival Game. Details were also described in Sanzai-san's Blog (in Japanese).
Before the 13th Games, Shooting test of biodegradable luminescence airsoft BBs was carried out by Stallone. The trajectory were beautifull.
ROBO-ONE 21th sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo on Sep 1st and 2nd, 2012. ROBO-ONE Light 5th took place on Sep 1st, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Sep 1st and the main event ROBO-ONE 21st Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Sep 2nd.
ROBO-ONE 21st Tournament (Light Class, 3 kg or Under)
Regulations of ROBO-ONE 21st
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 20th.
ROBO-ONE 21st was held as the tournament with 48 robots which were one winner of the local robot competitions, champion of ROBO-ONE Light 5th and upper place 46 robots in the preliminary competition, 4.5 m Footrace taken place on Sep. 1st.
The tournament winner was Garoo by Kumama-san, who also got a prize of 5 hundred thousand yen. Garoo won the championship for three consecutive ROBO-ONE Tournament. The 2nd place was Cortejyu-miharus by SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. The 3rd place was Reguhorn by Nakayan-san and 4th Place was NagareGold by Kenta-san. Result of the tournament was here.
The 21st ROBO-ONE was the 10th anniversary. A memorial exhibition match was carried out before the 3rd place and final match. The exhibition match was hold by two new type ROBO-ONE robots as Haruo 68, flying robot and King Kizer, jumping robot by compressed air. It seems to be necessary for ROBO-ONE robot to innovate.
Videos of 1st, 2nd, 3rd stage, quarterfinal, semifinal, for 3rd place and final matches were uploaded in IKETOMU Channel. Interesting videos were as follows;
ROBO-ONE 21st sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo on Sep 1st and 2nd, 2012.
ROBO-ONE Light 5th took place on Sep 1st, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Sep 1st and the main event ROBO-ONE 21st Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Sep 2nd.
Regulations of ROBO-ONE 21st
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 20th.
ROBO-ONE 21st was held as the tournament with 48 robots which were winners of the local robot competitions, the 5th light and upper 46 place robots in the preliminary competition, 4.5 m Footrace.
4.5 m Footrace
In the last ROBO-ONE 20th, 9 m Footrace was carried out. It was clear that robot were divided into two groups, one was robots could walk the 9 m course within 1 minute and the other was fell down from the course. All robots walked the course within 1 minute passed the preliminary competition.
Four meters and 50 cm Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 46 robots and to decide the tournament order. Upper 46 robots could attend the tournament. One hundred-four robots joined the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace.
Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 30 seconds. Each robot time record taken 4.5 m walk, or the distance from start point if robot could not walk within 30 seconds, or robot fell down from the course was recorded.
Each robot tried just one time Footrace. The 4.5 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 4.5 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 automo 05(Go-Wan) 7.78 seconds by holypong-san, the 2nd place was Garoo 11.21 by Kumama-san, the 3rd place was Chromkid 11.35 by Kupapa-san, the 4th place was Tokotoko-maru 11.46 by Amino-san, the 5th place was Gergoil-mini 11.59 by Yoshida-san, the 6th place was Metallic Fighter 11.96 by Morinaga-san, the 7th place was Frog Food 13.06 by Shibata-san the 8th place was Aerobattler 13.93, the 9th was Corteju-Miharusu 15.71 and BLACK TIGER NEO, my robot was the 10th place, 15.72 seconds.
Just 40 robots could reach the goal within 30 seconds. Upper 10 robots were 15 seconds, the 11th to 16th robots were 20 seconds, 17th to 40th were 30 seconds.
4.5 m Footrace Videos of All Robots Joined ROBO-ONE 21st
At the beginning of 4.5 m Footrace, ROBO-ONE Committee announced Yoshimura-san entered to the ROBO-ONE Hall of Fame. Yoshimura-san is well known to God of ROBO-ONE and designer of KONDO KHR series robots. The first run was New R-Blue, LinkBlueMarkII custom-built by Yoshimura-san. The New R-Blue video is as follows;
I have been enjoying biped robot since 2004, when KHR-1 was put on the market, and collecting information of hobby robots. I would like to upload information about hobby robots in Japan for the hobbyists of biped robot all over the world. As my ability for uploading is limitted, I will introduce just news of product, kit or parts and information of competition etc. with picutures or videos.
DeAGOSTINI issued weekly magazine, `Weekly Robi` with biped robot parts of Robi on Oct 30th, 2012. 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. 
