The 3rd ROBO-ONE auto, Autonomous Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Feb 24, 2018)

The 3rd ROBO-ONE auto sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at Miraikan - National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on Feb 24, 2018.   

Footrace of 4.5 m as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Light 16th and ROBO-ONE 32nd Tournament also took place on Feb 24th .   Video on Feb 24 was uploaded YouTube ROBO-ONE channel.     And the final tournament video of the 16th ROBO-ONE Light and the 32nd ROBO-ONE taken place on Feb 25 was also uploaded ROBO-ONE channel.

The major regulation of the 3rd ROBO-ONE auto were just autonomous robot could join the tournament and the weight of robot, which was 5 kg or under.  Details of the body regulation were described in the 32nd ROBO-ONE, the 16th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 3rd ROBO-ONE auto (in English).  Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

Twenty-six robots joined the competition.  Autonomous 4.5 m footrace  was carried out as the preliminary ROBO-ONE auto 3rd.  Upper 16 rotbots including seeded robot could join the final tournament.  Just 12 robots could arrive at the goal within 1 minute.   The 1st place of the autonomous footrace was KOBIS in 10.40 seconds, the 2nd place was Metallic Fighter in 12.04 seconds and the 3rd place was RP.KIM, DONGHYEON in 17.01 seconds.  Autonomous 4.5 footrace video is here.

Autonomous 4.5 m footrace the 1st place KOBIS on the  bule course

The tournament winner was  HAM SIHOON custom-built by YELLOWTOOTH, the 2nd place was  King Puni by Osaka Sangyo University Puni, the 3rd place was HAM JIYUN by BLUETOOTH and the 4th place was HYUN MOORIM by REDTOOTH.   Result of the tournament is here.

 Otsuka-san uploaded videos of the 3rd ROBO-ONE auto to his YouTube Channel as follows;  

The 1st Round: King Puni vs HKOBIS
The winner was King Puni.


Quaterfinal:HYUN MOORIM vs Gerifalte
The winner was HYUN MOORIM.


Final:HAM SIHOON vs King Puni
The winner was HAM SIHOON.


The 1st ROBO-ONE auto took place on Feb 25, 2017 and the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto on Feb 25, 2017.   The details were reported in this blog.

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ROBO-ONE 31st Biped Robot Fight Tournamnt (Sep 24 , 2017)

ROBO-ONE 31st sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at  Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. on Sep 24, 2017.  

ROBO-ONE Light 14th and ROBO-ONE auto took place on Sep 23rd and 4.5m Footrace as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 31st Tournament and the main event ROBO-ONE 31st Final Tournament took place on Sep 24th.

The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg.  Details of the body regulation were described in the 31st ROBO-ONE, the 15th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto (in English).   Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.



One hundred and thirty-eight robots joined the competition.  ROBO-ONE 31st was held as the tournament with 48 robots, upper place robots in the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace including winners of the local robot competitions or honor robots.

4.5 m Footrace
Four meters and 50 cm Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 41 robots and to decide the tournament order.  Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute.   Each robot time record taken 4.5 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 4.5 m course pasted with thin rubbers in the course, seemed to be not flat.  Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 4.5 m course for the most of robots.    All robots walked the course within 1 minute, passed the preliminary competition.   The result of the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace is here.

The 1st place was Frosty by 4.53 seconds, the 2nd place was HAUSER by 10.37 seconds and the 3rd place was KAGRA-SOU by 10.87 seconds.   Just 51 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 17 robots were under 20 seconds, the 18th to the 27th place robots were under 30 seconds.  yk-san uploaded videos of the preliminary competition as follows.

The 2nd place:  HAUSER


The 1st Place: Frosty


ROBO-ONE 31st Tournament (3 kg or Under)

The final tournament winner was Vermilion by SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SRDC.  The 2nd place was Speranza by Tateno.  The 3rd place was BJ05 ASURA by Daidou University Old Boy.  The forth place was KOBIS by BISKO.  Result of the tournament is here.
Sanzai-san also reported the tournament in his blog (in Japanese).

Semifinal, 1st Game: Vermilion vs KOBIS
The winner was Vermilion .

Robot Pro-Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!34` took place in Soka City (Nov 3, 2017)



Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!34`, sponsored by Omata-san took place in Soka City on Nov 3, 2017 during Soka Chamber of Commerce and Industry Festival 2017.  Dekinnoka!34 was the 10th Dekinnoka! in Soka Camber of Commerce and Industry Festival.  The 1st Dekinnoka! took place on Nov. 3, 2008 in the Festival.

 

Five matches started at 2:30 pm.   The 1st single match was Afro vs Tokotoko-maru, the 2nd match was Blue-Thunder vs Nagare-Gold, the 3rd match was Reina vs Yukikaze vs Newtrino, the 4th gantlet match was Waroo vs Metallicfighter and the main event, Kanto Interregional Championship was challenger King-Puni vs champoin Saaga. Results are here.

 

All  matches were shown on `YouTube Robot Event Haisin-ya Channel`.
Sanzai-san also reported all matches in his blog (in Japanese).

`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. He planned not only wrestling match but also the back story of each wrestler character such as a real pro-wrestling match.

Robot Pro-Wrestling `Dekinnoka!` took place  during 8 years. `Dekinnoka!` has been also supported by the members of Kanto-Robot-Training-Group.

Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6' , Dekinnoka!7' , `Dekinnoka!8`  , `Dekinnoka!9` , `Dekinnoka!10`,`Dekinnoka!10.5,  `Dekinnoka!11 , Dekinnoka!13, Dekinnoka!16 , Dekinnoka!18 ,  Dekinnoka!26 and Dekinnoka!30 have been uploaded in this blog. Videos were also uploaded to the 'Dekinnoka Official Site` by Omata-san. You can watch the details of the Robot Professional Wrestling results and videos by clicking each poster of Dekinnoka!

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The 15th ROBO-ONE Light Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Sep 23, 2017)

ROBO-ONE Light 15th sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at  Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. on Sep 23, 2017.  

ROBO-ONE Light 15th also took place on Sep 23rd and 4.5m Footrace as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 31st Tournament and the main event ROBO-ONE 31st Final Tournament took place on Sep 24th.

ROBO-ONE Light 15th
ROBO-ONE Light is a robot fight tournament for robots on the market, which are officially recognized by ROBO-ONE Committee. Beginner, who gets robot from the market and want to attend the ROBO-ONE Tournament, can attend the competition with his robot which is made from just robot kit. Custom-built robot, just the weight 1 kg or under (UK1) also can attend the tournament.

The regulations are as follows;
1) Officially recognized robot regulation
Robots on the market, officially recognized by ROBO-ONE Committee, can attend the competition whether the robot adapt the 31st ROBO-ONE, the 15th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto (in English).
2) Custom-built robot weight except for the officially recognized robot is 1 kg or under (UK1). Custom-built robot has to adapt the 31st ROBO-ONE, the 15th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto (in English).



In the tournament, custom-built robots handicapped by about 500 g compared with officially recognized kits such as KHR-3HV.  It was interesting that how builder of custom robot UK1 overcame the weight handicap and which robot kit was able to win the tournament. However, it is necessary for getting championship of robot fight tournament to carry 3 important factors such as good body, good motion and good control.

Eighty-six robots joined the 15th tournament. More than 45 robots were custom-built robot, UK1 (1kg or under). Other robots were officially recognized robots such as KHR-3HV.

In the 15h tournament, custom-built UK1 robots could not overcome the weight handicap 500g.   The Champion, Metallic Fighter by Morinaga-san was a officially recognized robot, KHR-3HV. The 2nd place Simanchu by JGSDF HTS Robot R&D Club was also a custom-built robot, KHR-3HV.   The 3rd place Little・puni by Osaka Sangyo University Puni was a custom-built robot, UK1 (1kg or under).  The 4th place HAM SIHOON_light by YELLOWTOOTH was also a custom-built robot, UK1.   The results are here.

Semifinal 1st Game; Metallic Fighter vs Little-puni
The winner was Metallic Fighter.


Semifinal 2nd Game, Simanchu vs HAM SIHOON_light
The winner was Simanchu


For 3rd Place Match, Little-puni vs HAM SIHOON_light
The winner was Little-puni.


Final Match; Metallic Fighter vs Simanchu
The winner was Metallic Fighter.


ROBO-ONE Light 1st took place on Mar 20, 2010,  ROBO-ONE Light 2nd on May 22, 2010, ROBO-ONE Light 3rd on Oct 8, 2011, ROBO-ONE Light 4th on Mar 24, 2012,  ROBO-ONE Light 5th on Sep 1, 2012, ROBO-ONE Light 10th on Mar 14,  ROBO-ONE Light 11th on Sep 26, 2015,  ROBO-ONE Light 12th on Feb 13, 2016,  ROBO-ONE Light 13th on Sep 24, 2016 and ROBO-ONE Light 14th on Feb 25, 2017.   The details were reported in this blog.

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The 2nd ROBO-ONE auto, Autonomous Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Sep 23, 2017)

The 2nd ROBO-ONE auto sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. on Sep 23, 2017.   

ROBO-ONE Light 15th also took place on Sep 23rd and 4.5m Footrace as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 31st Tournament and the main event ROBO-ONE 31st Final Tournament took place on Sep 24th.

The major regulation of the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto were just autonomous robot could join the tournament and the weight of robot, which was 5 kg or under.  Details of the body regulation were described in the 31st ROBO-ONE, the 15th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto (in English).  Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

Twenty-five robots joined the competition.  The tournament winner was King Puni custom-built by Osaka Sangyo University Puni.  The 2nd place was BLACK TIGER NEO by myself, IKETOMU.   The 3rd place was KOBIS by BISKO.  Result of the tournament is here.



My autonomous robot, `BLACK TIGER NEO` also joined the tournament and got the 2nd place.   Almost autonomous robot had sensor system as PSD and/or ultrasonicwave sensor.  It was difficult for almost autonomous robot to find the robot in long distance such as 1 m over.  

 Otsuka-san uploaded videos of the 2nd ROBO-ONE auto to his YouTube Channel as follows;  

The 1st Round: Dezafines O Rantan vs HAN SIHOON
The winner was Dezafines O Rantan.


The 1st Round: Golio Hepiarms vs CHO HYEONGCHAN
The winner was Golio Hepiarms.