New Type Biped Robot 'Roller-Dash' Custom-Built by Igaa-san (Sep. 16, 2011)

Igaa-san opened his new type biped robot 'Roller-Dash' which feet equipped wheels at his blog site (in Japanese) of Ropotal on Sep 16, 2011.

I think it is the first type biped hobby robot moving with wheels. Weight of the new robot is 404 g and it's height is 17.5 cm, for UK1/2 (Under 500 g).   You can recognize the size of the robot compared with the picture of 'Saaga'.   He wrote in his blog that he developed with a lot of failure and his unique robot was also developing.




Igaa-san also developed a new type multi-legged robot, 'Vanga', 6-legged robot with wheels, which could move with high speed for Robot Survival Game in 2010.

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Dekinnoka!8 took place at HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO in Shizuoka City (Sep. 4, 2011)

Dekinnoka!8 took place at HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO, the biggest hobby robot event in Japan which was held at Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center "GRANSHIP" in Shizuoka City on Sept. 3-4, 2011 during the 50th Japan SF Convention.

Dekinnoka!8 in the COLOSSEO was shown on ‘Ustream HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO’ by Ishikawa-san and Tobby-san.  Video of Dekinnoka!8 is also keeping in the HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO Channel.

Dekinnoka!8 was held on Sep 4, as the final event of the HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO. The 1st Round was Waroo vs Ryuketsu Kamen, the 2nd Round was Leghorn vs Saaga and the main event was Thunderbolt vs Nagare-Gold.

Opening video


The 1st Round
Waroo vs Ryuketsu Kamen


The 2nd Round
Saaga vs Leghorn



The main event of Dekinnoka!8 is a single match:Thunderbolt vs Nagare-Gold. Thunderbolt custom-built by Shibata-san, got Gold Medal of the Androids:FreeStyle-original in RoboGames 2011. Nagare-Gold custom-built by KENTA-san, also got Gold Medal of the Androids: Kung-Fu-MiddleWt in RoboGames 2011. Thunderbolt and Nagare-Gold fought three times in Dekinnoka!5, 6 and 7. Thunderbolt could not win Nagare-Gold. Which robot was winner?

Thunderbolt vs Nagare-Gold




Ending video


`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.

Omata-san also announced, Dekinnoka!9 would be held on Nov. 3 in Soka City, Saitama Prefecture and Dekinnoka!10 on Dec. 25, 2011 at Tsukiji Buddhist Hall, Tokyo.

Promotion Video of Robot Pro-Wrestling, "Dekinnoka!" (Ver. 2011) is as follows;



Omata-san carried out 8 times `Dekinnoka! as 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 6 and 7` during 2 years. `Dekinnoka!` has been also supported by the members of Kanto-training-gumi (group).

Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6'  and 'Dekinnoka!7' 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 videos by clicking each 8 poster of `Deinnoka! 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5,6 and 7`.

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The 8th Robot Survival Game took place at HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO (Sep. 3-4, 2011)

The 8th Robot Survival Game took place at HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO, the biggest hobby robot event in Japan which took place at Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center "GRANSHIP" in Shizuoka City on Sep. 3-4, 2011 during the 50th Japan SF Convention.

More than 80 robots joined the COLOSSEO. All competitions in the COLOSSEO were shown on ‘Ustream HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO’ by Ishikawa-san and Tobby-san and videos were keeping in the channel.

Robot Survival Games such as Extermination Battle, Flag Battle, Fortress Battle and Rumble Battle were carried out. 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.

Ten Robot joined the 8th Survival Game were divided into two teams, Igga-san Team and gons-san Team. Igaa-san Team members were Saaga(Igaa), Yabusame(mota), Σshiguma(Shimaken), Pantsure-Kanikan(Kamiya) and GonbeiMk-Ⅱ(B-saku). Gons-san Team members were Denryu(gons), Butank-kai(Osaru), Little Cat(Chiba), Stallone(Noborizaka) and Benkei(Michii & Ookuma).  All robot were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Rumble Battle.

Pictures of joined robots were as follows;
Benkei(Michii & Ohokuma)

Butank-kai(Osaru)

Denryu(gons)

GonbeiMk-Ⅱ(B-saku)

Little Cat(Chiba)

Pantsure-Kanican(Kamiya)

Σ Shiguma(Shimaken)

Stallone(Noborizaka)

Yabusame(mota)

 Extermination Battle and Flag Battle took place at 16:00-16:45 on Sep. 3rd.

Extermination Battle (Destroy the enemy completely):
Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes.
Video is keeping in the ‘Ustream HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO’



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 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 3 minutes.
Video is keeping in the ‘Ustream HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO’



Fortress Battle and Rumble Battle took place at 11:00-11:45 on Sep. 4th   Chiba-san took videos from the 2nd floor of Survival Game Field.

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.

Fortress Battle A


Fortress Battle B

Trial of Long Distance Robot Remote Control
Trial of long distance robot remote control system using the Internet and VPN was also carried out by Michii and Ohokuma-san. Controller drove the robot, Benkei from Kagawa Prefecture, the Shikoku district in Japan. Video of Fortress Battle B mixed with two display images in the long distance control trial was as follows;



Rumble Battle (without camera system)
All robots fight each other and just one robot survival is winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system. The winner was Butank, custom-built by Osaru-kun.



Fight a duel
Just 2 robots fight in the field. Using of full field and fighting time was 5 minutes.

Butank vs Gonbei MkⅡ


Stallone vs Little Cat


Butank vs Pantsure-Kanican


Noborizaka-san also uploaded videos of the 8th Robot Survival Game in his channel.

Trials of the Robot Survival Game were held twice on April 10th and June 13th (1) (2), 2010. The 1st Robot Survival Game took place on July 19th, the 2nd one on Sep 11th, the 3rd one on Nov 20-21st, the 4th one on Dec 11 in 2010, the 5th one on Feb 20, the 6th one on April 17 , the 7th one on June 26 in 2011 and the details were described in this blog.

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Full-scale robot soccer took place at HOBBY ROBOT CLOSSEO (Sep. 3-4, 2011)

Full-scale robot soccer took place at HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO, the biggest hobby robot event in Japan which took place at Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center "GRANSHIP" in Shizuoka City on Sep. 3-4, 2011 during the 50th Japan SF Convention.

More than 80 robots joined the COLOSSEO.    All competitions in the COLOSSEO were shown on ‘Ustream HOBBY ROBOT COLOSSEO’  by Ishikawa-san and Tobby-san and videos were keeping in the channel.

The most interested and excited competition was ROBO-SOCCER which took place as full-sacle robot soccer at 16:45 on Sep. 3rd and at 13:00 on Sep. 4th.    Twenty-four robots joined on Sep. 3rd and 20 robots joined on Sep. 4th.    Robots were divided into two teams, S-Pluse named after Shimizu S-Pluse and Jubilo named after Jubio Iwata, real soccer teams of Shizuoka prefecture.   

The soccer field was large enough to play full-scale robot soccer game.    As the floor was made from smooth plate, the soccer ball rolled moderately on the floor.    It seems to be hard for robot to walk on the carpet type floor and for soccer ball to roll on the  floor.    The first half was 10 minutes, halftime 1 min and the second half was 10 minutes.

The 1st game winner was Jubilo team, 2-1. Video of the 1st Game on Sep. 3 was as follows;


The 2nd game winner was Jubilo team, 3-0. Video of the 2nd Game on Sep. 4 was as follows;


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.

Details of the Full Soccer Game were also described in Journal Mycom (in Japanese).


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The 5th and 6th KONDO BATTLE took place at ROBOSPOT in Akihabara, Tokyo (Aug. 27, 2011)

The 5th and 6th KONDO BATTLE sponsored by KONDO KAGAKU CO., LTD took place on Aug 27, 2011 at ROBOSPOT in Akihabara, TOKYO.    The 5th KONDO BATTLE was carried out as Student Class and the 6th KONDO BATTLE was carried out as Open Class and Exhibition Class.   Exhibition Class could be joined who has the right to join the 19th ROBO-ONE in Kawasaki on Oct 8-9, 2011.   Winner of the Student Class and Open Class could get rights to join the 19th ROBO-ONE tournament.

The games were shown on `USTREAM KONDO-ROBOT Channel` from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm (JST) and videos are keeping in the Channel.

The main regulation following the 19th ROBO-ONE was the weight of robot, which had to be 3 kg or under 3 kg.   Eighteen robots; Student Class 7, Open Class 8 and Exhibition Class 3, joined the competition.   Losers of Student Class and Open Class also joined the Exhibition Class tournament.

The winner of Student Class was Digakku custom-built by Akitsuka, Open Class was Chrom-Kid custom built by Kupapa, Exhibition Class was Garoo custom-built by Kumama.   Daigakku and Chrom-kid got the right to join the 19th ROBO-ONE tournament would be held on Oct. 8-9, 2011.

Results are described here.   All videos of the competition were uploaded to IKETOMU Channel. Interesting videos are as follows;

Student Class Semifinal: Hayabusa vs Tweast
The winner was Tweast.


Student Class Semifinal: Daigakku vs JOKER
The winner was Daigakku.


Student Class Final: Tweast vs Daigakku
The winner was Daigakku.


Open Class 1st Stage: Chrom-Kid vs Gattender
The winner was Chrom-Kid.


Open Class 1st Stage: Infinity vs DeKarle
The winner was DeKarle.


Open Class Semifinal: Chrom-Kid vs Cavalier
The winner was Chrom-Kid.


Open Class Semifinal: automo 05(GO-Wan) vs DeKarle
The parallel-linked leg of automo 05(GO-Wan) was a new type of Mercury for the highest torque (67kg・cm) KONDO servo, KRS-6003HV.
The winner was automo 05(GO-Wan)


Open Class Final: Chrom-Kid vs automo 05(Go-Wan)
The winner was Chrom-Kid.


Exhibition Class 1st Stage: Garoo vs α NEXT
The winner was Garoo.


Exhibition Class 1st Stage: Frosty vs Gattender
Frosty, well known as a back flip robot, moved by jumping. The winner was Frosty.


Exhibition Class 1st Stage: BLACK TIGER NEO vs Core α
BLACK TIGER NEO was autonomous and Core α was radio controlled. The winner was Core α.


Exhibition Class 2nd Stage: Garoo vs Gattender
A big robot, Gattender with parallel-liked legs, used the highest torue servo, KRS-6003HV for all axes.
The winner was Garoo.


Exhibition Class Semifinal: Garoo vs Core α
The winner was Garoo.


Exhibition Class Semifinal: Frosty vs JOKER
The winner was Frosty.


Exhibition Class Final: Garoo vs Frosty
The winner was Garoo.


Winners Final Rumble Fight: Exhibition Class winner Garoo, Open Class winner Chrom-Kid and Student Class winner Daigakku
The winner was Garoo.


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