The 14th Wandahoo Robot Carnival took place at Try+ Bunkyo-Douzaka School in Tokyo on July 16th, 2017. Fourteen robots joined the 14th Wandahoo. The 1st place was TKU-05 Wadatsumi built by Nabe-san, the second place was Melon Juice by Tsubasa Nemoto of JGSDF High Techinical School and the third place was Toujin-Shimanchu by Kazunari Ohota of JGSDF High Techinical School. Results were described in the 14th Wandahoo blog.
The Carnival is robot competition consisted with various four type games such as Dash 2000(competition of 2 robots, 2 m U-turn course foot race; each robot gets points depended on the order of record time), Bottle Traction(pushing or pulling a basket with 500 or 1000 ml bottles for 2 m within 1 minute; points are multiplication of number of bottles and distance carried), Dice Shot(dice soccer of 2 robots; each robot gets points depended on the spots of dice shot for 2 minutes) and Cubs(team game of 3 robots each, carrying cubs to own territory for 2 minutes; winner team members get points) and Robot Fightwith the best 4 robots. Therefore, this Carnival is called `Robot Olympic`.
Each robot gets points from each game. In the case of team game, winner team member robots gets points. Four robots gotten many points can join the final tournament of Robot Fight. The rest robots have Ramble Fights. Those games were planned by Ishikawa-san.
It is necessary for winner that the robot has a high activity with performance and also good luck.
The 1st Carnival took place on July 16, 2006 and then the Carnival held twice in January and July every year. From 2010, the Carnival takes place in July once a year. Animader-san painted each event poster. As for the poster gallery, click here. The theme song of Carnival also can be downloaded here.
The 13rd Wandahoo Robot Carnival took place at Sunpian Kawasaki in Kawasaki City on July 16th, 2016. Eighteen robots joined the 13th Wandahoo. The competition was shown on `Ustream Wandahoo Robot Carnival` from 12:00 to 17:00, July 16th 2016. (JST). The 1st place was Dark-Thunder built by Moriken-san, the second place was Goulio by Goba-san and the third place was Sakura-2gou by Yoshida-familia.
The Carnival is robot competition consisted with various four type games such as Dash 2000(competition of 2 robots, 2 m U-turn course foot race; each robot gets points depended on the order of record time), Bottle Traction(pushing or pulling a basket with 500 or 1000 ml bottles for 2 m within 1 minute; points are multiplication of number of bottles and distance carried), Dice Shot(dice soccer of 2 robots; each robot gets points depended on the spots of dice shot for 2 minutes) and Cubs(team game of 3 robots each, carrying cubs to own territory for 2 minutes; winner team members get points) and Robot Fightwith the best 4 robots. Therefore, this Carnival is called `Robot Olympic`.
Each robot gets points from each game. In the case of team game, winner team member robots gets points. Four robots gotten many points can join the final tournament of Robot Fight. The rest robots have Ramble Fights. Those games were planned by Ishikawa-san.
It is necessary for winner that the robot has a high activity with performance and also good luck.
The 1st Carnival took place on July 16, 2006 and then the Carnival held twice in January and July every year. From 2010, the Carnival takes place in July once a year. Animader-san painted each event poster. As for the poster gallery, click here. The theme song of Carnival also can be downloaded here.
Program is as follows;
12:15 Opening Ceremony
Introduction of Participating Robots
Dash 2000
Bottle Traction
Dice Shot
Cubs
Rumble Fight
Robot Fight, Final Tournament
17:20 Closing Ceremony
Wandahoo Robot Carnival is sponsored by Ishikawa-sanand supported by the members of Kanto ROBOT Practice（Kanto-gumi Robot Training Meeting）. Ishikawa-san and his stuffs are busy preparing USTREAM Live system of the Carnival now. Entry of the Carnival will finish on Nov. 30th, and 30 robots will join.
The Carnival is robot competition consisted with various four type games such as Dash 2000(competition of 2 robots, 2 m U-turn course foot race; each robot gets points depended on the order of record time), Bottle Traction(pushing or pulling a basket with 500 or 1000 ml bottles for 2 m within 1 minute; points are multiplication of number of bottles and distance carried), Dice Shot(dice soccer of 2 robots; each robot gets points depended on the spots of dice shot for 2 minutes) and Cubs(team game of 3 robots each, carrying cubs to own territory for 2 minutes; winner team members get points) and Robot Fightwith the best 4 robots. Therefore, this Carnival is called `Robot Olympic`.
Each robot gets points from each game. In the case of team game, winner team member robots gets points. Four robots gotten many points can join the final tournament of Robot Fight. The rest robots have Ramble Fights. Those games were planned by Ishikawa-san.
It is necessary for winner that the robot has a high activity with performance and also good luck.
The 1st Carnival took place on July 16, 2006 and then the Carnival held twice in January and July every year. From 2010, the Carnival takes place in July once a year. Animader-san painted each event poster. As for the poster gallery, click here. The theme song of Carnival also can be downloaded here.
Program is as follows;
12:30 Opening Ceremony
Introduction of Participating Robots
Dash 2000
Bottle Traction
Dice Shot
Cubs
Rumble Fight
Robot Fight, Final Tournament
18:30 Closing Ceremony
Wandahoo Robot Carnival is sponsored by Ishikawa-sanand supported by the members of Kanto ROBOT Practice（Kanto-gumi Robot Training Meeting）. Ishikawa-san and his stuffs are busy preparing USTREAM Live system of the Carnival now. Entry of the Carnival has finished on July 1st, and 23 robots have entried.
The Carnival is robot competition consisted with various four type games such as Dash 2000(competition of 2 robots, 2 m U-turn course foot race; each robot gets points depended on the order of record time), Bottle Traction(pushing or pulling a basket with 500 or 1000 ml bottles for 2 m within 1 minute; points are multiplication of number of bottles and distance carried), Dice Shot(dice soccer of 2 robots; each robot gets points depended on the spots of dice shot for 2 minutes) and Cubs(team game of 3 robots each, carrying cubs to own territory for 2 minutes; winner team members get points) and Robot Fightwith the best 4 robots. Therefore, this Carnival is called `Robot Olympic`.
Each robot gets points from each game. In the case of team game, winner team member robots gets points. Four robots gotten many points can join the final tournament of Robot Fight. The rest robots have Ramble Fights. Those games were planned by Ishikawa-san.
It is necessary for winner that the robot has a high activity with performance and also good luck.
The 1st Carnival took place on July 16, 2006 and then the Carnival held twice in January and July every year. From 2010, the Carnival takes place in July once a year. Animader-san painted each event poster. As for the poster gallery, click here. The theme song of Carnival also can be downloaded here.
Illustration of the COLOSSEO was designed by Minoru Kamiya, who is famous for manga such as Pla-Wres Sanshiro and Act-on and also known to designer of Weekly ROBO XERO. Kamiya-san also will join the COLOSSEO with his custom-built robot.
Most of hobby robot competitions related ROBO-ONE, will join the COLOSSEO. These robot competitions are held once or twice every year by hobbist groups in local region. Most of competitions started after KONDO humanoid robot kit, KHR-1 was on the market. And most of competitions join the organization of “JSRC”( Standard Regulation Class Network of Japan). And most of competition also follows ROBO-ONE’s robot body regulation. More than 70 robots will join the COLOSSEO.
Naga-Ranger Fighting Festa（ROBOT Karuta）
Nishiokitama Industry Association holds the Naga-Ranger Fighting Festa twice every year in Nagai City, Yamagata Prefecture. In the competition, “ROBOT Karuta: Card Finding Game” is carried out for pairing the 1st stage fighting at first. Speaker reads a card which card marked by the first letter of the card content. When a card is read, robot owner finds the card and then makes his robot run to the card and put on the card. Then, the robot owner can select the position of the robot fight tournament. Video, taken on the 5th Nagaranger Fighting Festa is as follows;
Chiki-Chiki Robo-Match（Zigzag Log Bridge）
Chiki-Chiki Robo-Match sponsored by Robotoma, takes place every year and Chiki-Chiki-Robo-Match Mini also takes place every month. A new race is planned in every Chiki-Chiki-Robo-Match Mini. Zingzag Log Bridge took place at the 5th mini match. Robot runs 6 m tile-carpet, 30 cm width course set zinzag within 3 minutes. If robot goes down the course within 3 minutes, robot can try to run from start point.
Sunrise Hero Robot Battle
Sunrise Hero Robot Battle(S.H.R.B.) is a robot fight tournament sponsored by ROBO-ONE Entertainment Office and LOXLEY Co. Ltd. and also supported by SUNRISE Inc. which is famous for animation producing company such as `Gundum`. The first S.H.R.B was carried out in Kouriyama on Aug. 15th, 2009. As S.H.R.B. is not only robot fight tournament but also including `Costume Play` competition of the robot builder, builders are all enjoying their costume. The regulations are 1)Character of the robot is limited to those of cartoon characters produced by SUNRISE Inc. 2)Robot worked as a biped robot. 3)Pilot also had to have or put on the item concerning character of the robot. Video taken at the 2nd S.H.R.B. during INTERNATIONAL ROBOT EXHIBITION 2009 in TOKYO BIG SIGHT on Nov. 28th, 2009 is as follows;
Wandahoo Robot Carnival（Bottle Traction: Bottle Carrying Race）
Wandahoo Robot Carnival is sponsored by Ishikawa-san and supported by the members of Kanto ROBOT Practice（Kanto-gumi Robot Training Meeting）. The Carnival is robot competition consisted with various four type games. Therefore, this Carnival is called `Robot Olympic`. The 1st Carnival took place on July 16, 2006 and then the Carnival held twice in January and July every year.
Bottle Traction :
Robot pushes or pulls a basket with 500 or 1000 ml bottles for 2 m within 1 minute. Points are multiplication of number of bottles and distance carried. Video taken at the 7th Carnival on July 19, 2009 is as follows;
TIROL-CHOCO Robot Competition (CHOCO Getter: TIROL-CHOCO Carrying Race)
The 1st TIROL-CHOCO Robot Competition sponsored by MASAYUKI-san, supported by RT Co., Ltd. and cooperated by TIROL-CHOCO CO., took place at RT Office in Akihabara, Tokyo on July 9, 2007. After that, the completion takes place every year. Regulations of robot body are 1) Robot has to put on big TIROL-CHOCO exterior, 2) Biped robot which number of servo for legs is under 4. Such type robots are known to Roppo type robot. Two arm-robots put on the 2 m course. Player removes TIROL-CHOCO from the basket of arm-robot to the basket on the robot. Each robot carries TIROL-CHOCO on the robot within 5 minutes for 2 m. The order is depended on the time and the number of TIROL-CHOCO carried. Video taken in the 4th competition on Feb. 13, 2010 is as follows;
Robot Survival Game(Extermination Battle, Flag Battle and Fortress Battle)
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 with toy gun and hit sensor 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. Videos taken at the 7th Robot survival Game on June 26, 2011 are as follows;
Extermination Battle (Destroy the enemy completely):
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 3 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 3 minutes.
Flag Battle:
Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 3 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 3 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 3 minutes.
Fortress Battle (divide into offensive team and defensive team):
One team is just offensive and other team is just defensive. Just defensive team builds fortress and set a flag in it, and offensive team attacks the fortress and shoot down the flag. Attack team does not know enemy fortress structure.
ROBO-SOCCER
ROBO-SOCCER is sponsored by NPO Hamamatsu Monodukuri Koubo. The 1st ROBO SOCCER took place on Dec. 5, 2009 and the 2nd one took place on July 24 in Shizuoka City. The robot body regulation and game rule are similar to those of KONDO CUP. Two remarkable differences from KONDO CUP are 4 robots play soccer on the joint-carpet field. Video was taken at ROBO SOCCER 2010.
Himeji Robo-Challenge (Build up Himeji Castle, Look for Balls by Autonomous)
The 1st Himeji Robo-Challenge took place on Dec. 11, 2005 in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture. After then, the competition takes place twice every year.
Build up Himeji Castle:
Robot carries three kinds of cube or polyhedron on the 1.5 m wood board, 30 cm width by kicking, hitting or handling into the goal area within 2 minutes. Video taken at the 10th competition on July 18, 2010 is as follows;
Look for Balls by Autonomous:
Robot drops out 3 kinds of ball, big size (30 cm), middle size (20 cm) and small size (10 cm), set on the ring within 3 minutes autonomously. Video taken at the 5th competition on Dec 23, 2007 is as follows;
YOKA ROBO (Blaser Battle, UK1 Battle)
YOKA ROBO Matsuri(Festival) takes place twice every year by Kyushu Robot Training Group for the beginner of robot hobbyist in Fukuoka City. The 1st one took place as WAKUWAKU Enjoy Robot Competition on Apr 15, 2007.
Blaser Battle:
Biped robot survival game by Blaser system using laser beam gun which is developed by Craft House and also supported by Kyushu Robot Training Group. Video taken at the Blaser Battle ～FUKUOKA the 1st Stage～ on Apr. 20, 2008 is as follows;
UK1: Under 1 kg Battle:
Robots are classified into 3 class such as SRC (Standard Regulation) Class(Under 3 kg), ORC (Over Regulation) Class (Under 2 kg) and UK1 (Under 1 kg) Class in the YOKA ROBO Battle Tournament.
Video taken in YOKA ROBO Matsuri 20 on May 22, 2011 is as follows;
Robot Pro-Wrestling Dekinnoka!8
`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 explains the 'Robot Professional Wrestling' is not 'Wrestling' but 'Fighting Arts'. The purpose of `Dekinnoka!` is not only robot fight but also to inform pleasure of robot. Press Coference Video of Dekinnoka!8 and Promotion Video of Robot Pro-Wrestling "Dekinnoka!" (Ver. 2011) are as follows;
ROBOT FORCE:SWORD7
ROBOT FORCE has been holding ROBO-Fight and ROBO-Gong, robot fight competitions for biped hobby robot since 2005. The 1st ROBO-Gong took place for KHR-1 user on Apr 3, 2005 and the 1st ROBO-Fight for custom robot builder on May 8, 2005. Each competition takes place twice every year. SWORD7, robot athletic competition took place on Apr 25, 2009 for the first time. Biped kit robots on the market can join the race. Robot goes through the course set with seven obstacles within 3 minutes. Video of Myanoi taken at HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO on Sep 3-4, 2011 was as follows;
RoboCountryIV: Robot Amusing Contest (Robot Performance Contest)
RoboCountryIV (RCⅣ) is the society of the biped robot builders mainly from Shikoku Island of Japan. The RCⅣ is the Robot competition which has been promoted by Kagawa Humanoid Robot Society "KHRS" . Their ultimate goal is to enlighten the youth of Kagawa with the brilliant technology of Robotics.The 1st RCⅣ took place in 2005 Aug and then RCⅣtakes place twice in summer and winter every year.
Robot Amusing Contest (Robot Performance Contest) : Presentation of robot ability. Each robot amuses the audience with its performance.
The Carnival is robot competition consisted with various four type games such as Dash 2000(competition of 2 robots, 2 m U-turn course foot race; each robot gets points depended on the order of record time), Bottle Traction(pushing or pulling a basket with 500 or 1000 ml bottles for 2 m within 1 minute; points are multiplication of number of bottles and distance carried), Dice Shot(dice soccer of 2 robots; each robot gets points depended on the spots of dice shot for 2 minutes) and Cubs(team game of 3 robots each, carrying cubs to own territory for 2 minutes; winner team members get points) and Robot Fightwith the best 4 robots. Therefore, this Carnival is called `Robot Olympic`.
Each robot gets points from each game. In the case of team game, winner team member robots gets points. Four robots gotten many points can join the final tournament of Robot Fight. The rest robots have Ramble Fights. Those games were planned by Ishikawa-san.
The winner gets the right to join the 2nd JSRC Championship as the representative of Kanto ROBOT Practice （Kanto-gumi Robot Training Meeting）. It is necessary for winner that the robot has a high activity with performance and also good luck.
The 1st Carnival took place on July 16, 2006 and then the Carnival held twice in January and July every year. From 2010, the Carnival takes place in July once a year. Animader-san painted each event poster. As for the poster gallery, click here. The theme song of Carnival also can be downloaded here.
The Carnival is robot competition consisted with various four type games such as Dash 2000(competition of 2 robots, 2 m U-turn course foot race; each robot gets points depended on the order of record time and winner also gets points), Bottle Traction(pushing or pulling a basket with 500 or 1000 ml bottles for 2 m within 1 minute; points are multiplication of number of bottles and distance carried), Dice Shot(dice soccer of 2 robots; each robot gets points depended on the spots of dice shot for 2 minutes and winner also gets points) and Cubs(team game of 3 robots each, carrying cubs to own territory for 2 minutes; winner team members get points) and Robot Fightwith the best 4 robots. Therefore, this Carnival is called `Robot Olympic`.
Each robot gets points from each game. In the case of team game, winner team member robots gets points. Four robots gotten many points can join the final tournament of Robot Fight. The rest robots have Ramble Fights. Those games were planned by Ishikawa-san.
The winner gets the right to join the ROBO-ONE Tournamentand robot elected by participants gets the right to join the JSRC (Japan Standard Class Robot Community) Championship. It is necessary for winner that the robot has a high activity with performance and also good luck.
The 1st Carnival took place on July 16, 2006 and then the Carnival held twice in January and July every year. From 2010, the Carnival takes place in July once a year. Animader-san painted each event poster. As for the poster gallery, click here. The theme song of Carnival also can be downloaded here.
Robot competition, "The 7th Wandahoo Robot Carnival" sponsored by Mr. Ishikawa was carried out at Telecom Center the 21st Floor, Tokyo on July 19th, 2009.
Thirty-eight robots joined the competition. Four type games, Dash 2000 (2 m foot race), Bottle Traction (pushing or pulling a basket with 500 or 1000 ml bottles for 2 m within 1 min; points are multiplication of number of bottles and distance carried), Dice Shot (dice soccer; points are depended on the spots of dice shot for 150 sec) and Cubs (team game of 3 robots each; carrying cubs to own territory for 2 min) were carried out.
Each robot got points from each game. In the case of team game, winner team robots got points. Four robots gotten much points had a final tournament of robot fight. The rest 34 robots had ramble fights.
The competition started at 13:00. The winner was Sarga (Igaa). The 2nd place was Daigakku (Akitsuka), the 3rd place was Manboo (Tokyo University of Science, Robot Creator), and the 4th place was Zerfer (ShirakazeM). The winner of ramble fights was Alumiy (Omata). And Prot-Zaurer (Kenta) got the right to join the 1st JSRC (Japan Standard Class Robot Community) Championship in Nagoya on October, 2009.
Videos are as follows:
Dash 2000 (2 m foot race) Sarga vs Doka Harumi
Dash 2000 (2 m foot race) Marin vs Mechakogy
Dash 2000 (2 m foot race) Kohana vs Eorz
Bottle Traction (carrying a basket with bottles) Kinopy vs Kabura
Dice Shot (dice soccer) Koyuki vs Kohana
Cubs (Getting cubs, team game) Sarga team vs Daigakku team
Robot competition, "The 2nd Wandahoo Robot Carnival Petit" in the 6th MONO CREATOR FESTIVAL 2009, sponsored by Mr. Ishikawa was carried out in TOKYO BIG SIGHT West 3 Hall, on Apr. 29th, 2009. Wandahoo Robot Carnival carries out two times, winter and summer, every year sponsored by Mr. Ishikawa who is the president of ‘Kanto (Tokyo region)-Gumi (group) Robot Training Meeting’. Every robot, not only biped robot but also with many legs could join the competition. The competition is administered by members of `Kanto-Gumi Robot Training Meeting`
Thirty robots joined the competition. Three types game, 2m foot race, Basket carrying race (pushing or pulling basket with 500ml-bottles for 1.5m within 1 min) and dice soccer ( points are depended on the spots of dice shot) was carried out. The competition stared at 12:00 and ended 17:00. Just four robots; Sarga(Igaa), Σ(Shimaken),automo 05 Go-Wan(holypong) and Striker(Hiroki), which got much point from the three games, could join the final battle match. The results of the final match were as follows. The winner was Sarga. The 2nd place was automo 05 Go-Wan. The 3rd place were Σ and Striker.
Thirty robots were also divided into 2 teams, red team or white team. In the case of competition of two team’s robots, winner robot team got points. The winning team was red team.
At the end of the competition, ramble fight with 30 robots was carried out. The ring seemed to be too small to join all 30 robots.
The competition videos are as follows:
Garu vs automo 05 Go-Wan, 2 m Foot Race
Striker vs De Carle, 2 m Foot Race
Cavalier vs Manoio, 2 m Foot Race
Kinopy vs Phantom, 2 m Foot Race
Garue vs automo 05 Go-Wan, Basket Carrying Race
MELISSA HEKATONKEIRES vs KABURA, Basket Carrying Race
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.
Each robot gets points from each game. In the case of team game, winner team member robots gets points. Four robots gotten many points can join the final tournament of Robot Fight. The rest robots have Ramble Fights. Those games were planned by Ishikawa-san.
Additional petch carnival also took place twice as follows:
The 8th Wandahoo Robot Carnival 
