The 8th Wandahoo Robot Carnival will take place and be shown on USTREAM, July 11th, 2010 (July 4, 2010)

The 8th Wandahoo Robot Carnival will be held at Electric Power Historical Museum in Yokohama on July 11th, 2010. The competition will be shown on `Ustream Wandahoo Robot Carnival`from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm (JST).

The 8th Wandahoo videos are keeping in the Ustrean Wandahoo Robot Carnival Channel.

Program is as follows;
10:30 Opening ceremony
10:35 Introduction of participating robots
11:05 Dash 2000
12:30 Bottle Traction
13:50 Dice Shot
15:10 Cubs
15:55 Robot Fight
16:25 Closing ceremony

Wandahoo Robot Carnival is sponsored by Ishikawa-san and 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 8th Carnival has finished on July 27th and 40 robots 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 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 Fight with 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 Tournament and 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.

The series of Wandahoo Robot Carnival Result & Reports are as follows;
　
The 1st Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Bunkyo Civic Center on July 16, 2006
The 2nd Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Bunkyo Civic Center on Jan 17, 2007
The 3rd Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Bunkyo Civic Center on July 15, 2007
The 4th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Bunkyo Civic Center on Jan 13, 2008
The 5th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Bunkyo Civic Center on July 20, 2008
The 6th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Institute of Industry Promotion Kawasaki on Jan 11, 2009 :Report
The 7th Wandahoo Robot Carnival at Telecom Center on July 19, 2009 :Report

Additional petch carnival also took place twice as follows:
"Wandahoo Robot Carnival Petit" in Soka Fusasara Festival on Nov 2, 2008 :Report
"Wandahoo Robot Carnival Petit 2" in the 6th MONO CREATOR FESTIVAL 2009 Spring on Apr 29, 2009 :Report

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`Achilles`, a New Parallel-Linked Leg Set for KRS-2552HV will be put on the market (June 5-6th, 2010)

CRAFT HOUSE introduced and announced at the 6th KHR Anniversary on June 5-6th, 2010 that `Achilles`, a New Parallel-Linked Leg set will be put on the market in the end of June, 2010. Achilles is leg set just for KRS-2552HV servo by KONDO CO., LTD. KRS-2552HV is new servo with high torque developed for KHR-3HV. The new leg set is consisted of just parts, excluded servo and control board.

`Achilles` was put on the market on June 30th, 2010.

CRAFT HOUSE has been putting Mercury, a parallel-linked leg set for KRS-4000 series servo by KONDO on the market since January, 2009. Mercury is highly regarded by robot builder.



It was proved that the parallel-linked mechanism of leg was suitable for robot fight in all class robots. Therefore, the parallel-linked robot leg is popular among robot builders in Japan recently.

Feature of Achilles are as follows
1) Achilles is leg parts set using parallel-linked mechanism for KRS-2500 Series servo produced by KONDO CO., LTD.
2) The parallel-linked mechanism of Achilles makes robot body move with stability.
3) Changeable leg size depended on the custom-built robot structure
4) Achilles is just leg parts set, so robot builder can make another robot using their surplus servo and parts with the new set.
5) Achilles seems to be suitable for the leg of light class custom-built robots.
6) Achilles also seems to be suitable for the leg of KHR-3HV or YDH2500.
7) Price: 21,000 Yen (excluding tax)

Demonstration of Achilles, New Parallel-Linked Leg attached to KHR-3HV is as follows;




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The 6th KHR Anniversary (Part 6) The 21st KONDO CUP ( June 6, 2010 )

The 6th KHR Anniversary, Robot competition, sponsored by KONDO KAGAKU CO.,LTD took place at ASAKUSA ROX3 on June 5-6th, 2010. The 21st KONDO CUP Robot Soccer Game took place on June 6th, 2010.

KONDO CUP, Robot Soccer Game started on June 5th, 2006. Almost every 2 month held games. There are two class, one is KHR Class which KHR-series robot such as KHR-1, 1HV, 2HV, 3HV can attend the games. KHR robots changed 4 and less than 4 high-torque servos also attend the KHR class game. The other class, Open Class in which robots using just KONDO servo motor can attend the game and using of number of high-torque servo is not limited.

The first half time of the game is 5 minutes, the break time 1 min and the second half is 5 mins. One team is consisted with 3 or four robots.　 Just 3 robots can play soccer in the field. The soccer field of open class is larger than that of KHR class. The regulation of robot body and rules of soccer are described in the KONDO’ s web site.

Five teams as Speed☆Stars, SKY, TOKOTOKO&Metallic-3-Brothers, Team Robotoma and Trinity joined the Open Class. Preliminary league game was carried out and final tournament was arranged by the order of league place. The final match, Trinity vs Speed☆Stars was carried out. The winner was Trinity. Sakura-2gou, the goal keeper of Trinity, her play of throwing in was worthy of our attention. The result was described here.





Eight teams joined the KHR Class. Eight teams were divided into 2 leagues. A-league teams were Mistakes, Kanto-Branch, RFC-Bamboo-Bridge and RFC Autumnleaf. B-league teams were The University of Electro-Communications Robomecha-Koubou, Nihon Kogakuin College of Hachioji, Kibougaoka NFC and private team. 　Each league had a league game and each the 1st place had a final game. The 1st place of A-league was RFC-Bamboo-Bridge and the B-league was Kibougaoka NFC. The winner of final game was Kibougaoka NFC. The result was described here.




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The 6th KHR Anniversary (Part 5) KONDO Dance Contest (June 6, 2010)

The 6th KHR Anniversary, Robot competition, sponsored by KONDO KAGAKU CO.,LTD took place at ASAKUSA ROX3 on June 5-6th, 2010.

KONDO Dance Contest took place on June 6th. This dance contest was the second one in Japan. The 1st dance contest was carried out as the 6th ROBO-ONE GATE IN INTERNATIONAL ROBOT EXHIBITION 2009 Dance Competition sponsored by ROBO-ONE entertainment exclusive office during INTERNATIONAL ROBOT EXHIBITION 2009 in Tokypo Big Sight on Nov. 28th, 2009.


Four robot groups joined the contest. There was no regulation except for biped robot. The dance contest took place by each robot dancing with each ordered song within 5 mins. After dancing, judges voted. The robot gotten the most points was winner. The champion of the KONDO Dance Contest was Myanoi by Dr. GIY who was famous for Manoi Dancing.

Dance of White Myanoi and Blue Myanoi by Dr. GIY

Dance of Ginkaku(Manoi PF01) by Narimono-senshu

Dance of Strong Machine(based YDH2500) by Shimano

Dance of White Myanoi and Doara by Dr. GIY
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The 6th KHR Anniversary (Part 4) The 5th Autonomous Robot Beach Flag Competition ( June 5, 2010 )

The 6th KHR Anniversary, Robot competition, sponsored by KONDO KAGAKU CO.,LTD took place at ASAKUSA ROX3 on June 5-6th, 2010. The 5th Autonomous Robot Beach Flag Competition took place on June 5th, 2010.

The first competition was held in the 4th KHR Anniversary on June 7, 2008. Robot Beach Flag game is similar to human's one. Two robots start from each opposite side and push down the pole sat in the center within 3 mins. The robot push down the pole at first gets point. Each game has 2 round. The game is carried out in the soccer court that of KONDO CUP KHR Class. The pole (beach flag) attached 40 kHz ultra sonic wave sender is sat in the center circle.

As radio control is prohibited, all robots have to move autonomously. Just robots KHR series based KHR-1, KHR-2HV, KHR-1HV or KHR-3HV can join the competition. Exchange of 5 servo motor to high torque one such as KRS-2350HV, KRS-4013HV or KRS-4014 is permitted (Exchange to KRS-2552HV is free). There are two classes, one is Student Class and the other is Expert Class.

The robot joins the Student Class has to use RCB-1, RCB-3HV, RCB-3J, RCB-4HV, MP1 (Motion Processor-1), MP-2 (Motion Precessor-2) as the main control board and KCB-1 as the sensor control board.

The robot joins Expert Class has no limitation concerning the main sensor board and the sensor control board. For the Expert Class, a obstacle sets in the court.

It is necessary for winning the competition to reproduce motions accurately. Robot has to push down the pole at first in each game. Pushing down at first is the most important to win the match. Robot with the best record is not always the winner.

Three robots joined Student Class and the Champion was YSE_beachboy by Suzuki. Six robots joined Expert Class and the Champion was SevortZZ by Tokai University Robocup Soccer Project Team.

Expert Class Final, SevortZZ by TOKAI University Robo Cup Soccer Project vs KAIT-β　by KANAGAWA INSTITUTE TECHNOLOGY. The best record was 18.13 seconds by SevortZZ.



Exhibition match of Student Class Champion and Expert Class took place. The winner was the Student Class Champion, YSE_beachboy. The best record was 12.13 seconds by YSE_beachboy.

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