The 1st ROBO-ONE auto, Autonomous Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Feb 25, 2017)

The 1st ROBO-ONE auto sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at BANDO KOBE SCIENCE MUSEUM in Kobe City, Hyougo Pref. on Feb 25, 2017.   

ROBO-ONE Light 14th also took place on Sep 25th and 4.5m Footrce as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 30th Tournament and the main event ROBO-ONE 30th Final Tournament took place on Sep 26th.

The major regulation of the 1st 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 30th ROBO-ONE, the 14th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation and the 1st ROBO-ONE auto.(in English)   Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

Sixteen robots joined the competition.  The tournament winner was Ko-Bis by Bisko.  The 2nd place was SunShot by Osaka Electro-Communication University Jiyukobo-HRP.   The 3rd place was Garoo by Kumama.  Result of the tournament is here.

My autonomous robot, `BLACK TIGER NEO` also joined the tournament, however he dropped out of the ring and lost the game.   Almost autonomous robot had sensor system as PSD and/or ultrasonicwave sensor.  It was difficult for alomost autonomous robot to find the robot in long distance such as 1 m over.  

 Otsuka-san joined the tournament with his autonomous robot `Babbo-auto` and uploaded reports (1) (2) (in Japanese) of the details of tournament and also all videos of the 1st ROBO-ONE auto to his YouTube Channel.  

MiSUMi, a major sponsor company of ROBO-ONE uploaded ROBO-ONE auto highlights as follows;




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KRS-6003R2HV, the highest torque (67kg-cm) servo, was put on the market ( Mar 4, 2017 )

KONDO KAGAKU CO. LTD. put the highest torque (67kg-cm) servo, KRS-6003R2HV ICS on the market on Mar 4, 2017. The characteristics of a new servo are as follows:

1) Using a gear wheel made from special aluminum metal and the third gear wheel made from hard stainless steel:
These gear wheels could endure more than 60 kg torque and make a big power.

2) Attached a heat-sink:
Using a heat-sink as a middle case, makes effective cool of the servo and using aluminum as the upper case makes the case strength improve remarkably.

3) Attaching aluminum clump hone:
Using a driving screw aluminum clump hone could endure overloading. Attaching buried clump hone could make the axis strength improve.

4) Variety of bottom case options:
There is a variety of bottom case option. It is possible to change the bottom case for variety flames.

The new servo is suitable for making a large original robot because of its high torque and variable bottom case options. The new servo is also effective for changing a few servos in general original robots.

Specifications are as follows:
MaximumTorque: 67 kg-cm (11.1V)
Maximum Speed: 0.22s/60°
Length: 32(H) ×51(W) × 39.5(D)mm
Weight: 103 g (excluding horn)
Maximum Moving Angle: 270°
Maximum Current: 6.1 A
Gears: special aluminum metal and hard stainless steel (third gear)
Case Materials: aluminium (top and middle) and Resin including glass (bottom)
Gear Ratio: 362.88:1
Power Supply Voltage: HV(9~12V)
Telecommunication Standard: ICS 3.6 (serial/PMW)
Telecommunication Speed: 115200/625000/125000 bps
Default: ID0/BR115200
Signal Level: TTL
Rotaitional Mode: passable
Control Board: RCB-4HV, RCB-3HV, KCB-5, only PMW  use RCB-3J
Interface: Dual USB adaptor HS, ICS USB adaptor HS
Attached Parts: Aluminum clump horn, Cable (400 mm)

Price: One servo package is 25,000 yen, 6 servos packaged set is 133,200 yen, 18 servos packaged set is 370,000 yen (Taxes are excluded)

KRS-6003HV ICS was  put on the market on Mar. 4, 2009 and then KRS-6003RHV was put on the maeket which third gear material was changed from aluminium to hard stainless steel and also which ICS was changed 3.0 to 3.5.   KRS-6003R2HV which ICS was changed 3.5 to 3.6.

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New KONDO Robot KXR Series, KXR-L2 Biped Robot and KXR-L4-R Turtle Robot Will be Put on the Market (Dec. 14, 2016)

KONDO KAGAKU CO. LTD. announced a new robot series KXR, KXR-L2 Biped Robot and KXR-L4-R Turtle Robot will be put on the market on Jan 26, 2017．

The Concept of KXR series
The KXR series consist of servomotors with two kinds of specification that commonized an external form for replaceable freely depending on a purpose, resin frame parts more than 30 kinds which easily and surely assemble and a control board with the software.

As for the robot kit, it was packaged conventionally such as "biped robot" "turtle robot" or "arm type robot" independently. Therefore, if turtle robot convert to biped robot, it was necessary to design new parts and to compose them.

However, the KXR series can easily rearrange each set to another type robot using a lot of parts prepared. The optional parts such as a radio control apparatus or various sensors are also prepared. Therefore it is easy to make custom made robot using the KXR series.

KONDO is the leading company of hobby robot and the new robot is the third product of KONDO. The first hobby robot, KHR-1 was developed by KONDO and put on the market in 2004. The second one, KHR-2HV in 2006 and the forth one, KHR-3HV in 2009.

Specifications of KXR-2L are as follows:

Kit Content
Tempered resin frame parts
Control Board: RCB-4mini
Servomotor: KRS-3301 ICS ×16
Robo Power Cell E type: 6N-800mAh Ni-MH
Battery charger: BX-32MH
Dual USB Adapter HS
CD-ROM :（Manual & Sample motions)

Operating environment
OS: Windows Vista（SP1） Windows7 8 8.1 10
CD-ROM Drive for software installation
Interface: USB Port （1.1/2.0)

Length: 295(H) x 197(W) x 107(D)mm
Weight: approximately 1100 g including battery
Price: 69,800 yen excluding tax

Specifications of  KXR-L4-RK are as follows:

Kit Content
Tempered resin frame parts
Control Board: RCB-4mini
Servomotor: KRS-3301 ICS ×9
Robo Power Cell E type: 6N-800mAh Ni-MH
Battery charger: BX-32MH
Dual USB Adapter HS
CD-ROM :（Manual & Sample motions)

Operating environment
OS: Windows Vista（SP1） Windows7 8 8.1 10
CD-ROM Drive for software installation
Interface: USB Port （1.1/2.0)

Length: 275(H) x 119(W) x 153(D)mm
Weight: approximately 630 g including battery
Price: 45,000 yen excluding tax

Optional Parts
A large number of optional parts are prepared to realize the attractive rearrangement of the KXR series.

As KRS-3301 ICS, the servomotor used in the KXR series is the same size that of KRS-3304 ICS which torque is 13.8 kgf・㎝ higher than 7.5 kgf・cm of KRS-3301 ICS. Therefore, if KRS-3301 ICS changed to KRS-3304 ICS, the movement is more stable.

ROBO-ONE 29th and ROBO-ONE Light 13th Special Web Site Was Opened (Nov.11, 2016)

The 29th ROBO-ONE and the 13th ROBO-ONE Light Special Web Site sponsored by MiSUMi was opened.   The contents are ABOUT ROBO-ONE, MOVIE contained ROBO-ONE 15 matches video and ROBO-ONE Light 16 matches video,  and INTERVIEW contained 3 videos of robot builder such as Frosty, the fastest running robot.

ROBO-ONE 29th took place at Kanagawa-kenritsu-Seishounen-Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. on Sep 24th-25th, 2016.    ROBO-ONE Light 13th also took place on Sep 24th, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE 29th Tournament on Sep 24th. The main event ROBO-ONE 29th Final Tournament took place on Sep 25th.

 

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 29th ROBO-ONE and the 13th ROBO-ONE Light Regulation.  Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

One hundred and Twenty-nine robots joined the competition.  ROBO-ONE 29th was held as the tournament with 60 robots, 52 upper place robots in the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace and 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 60 robots and to decide the tournament order.  Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute.  In the 29th,  thin rubbers under 10 mm was pasted on the board in the course.   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 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 4.74 seconds, the 2nd place was Romantic Swordsman by 11.57 seconds and the 3rd place was Neutrino-Rosso by 11.7 seconds.

The 1st place; Frosty 4.74 seconds


Just 44 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 16 robots were under 20 seconds, the 17th to the 28th place robots were under 30 seconds.

ROBO-ONE 29th Tournament (3 kg or Under)

The tournament winner was King Puni by Osaka Sangyo University.  The 2nd place was Chromkid by Kupapa.  The 3rd place was Gargoyle KID by Yoshida Familia .  Result of the tournament is here.

Broadcasting service was carried out by niconico LIVE and the videos were keeping in this site.  Kanto Robot Practice also uploaded some videos of ROBO-ONE 29th to their YouTube Channel.  

Final Match: King Puni vs Chromkid
The winner was King Puni.


ROBO-ONE (3 kg or Under) of 15th on May 4, 2009 , 17th on March 21, 2011, 19th on Oct 9, 2011, 20th on March 25, 2012, 21st on Sep 2, 2012, 23rd on Sep 14-15, 2013 , 24th on Feb 15-16, 2014 , 25th on Sep 13-14, 2014 , 26th on Mar 14-15, 2015, 27th Sep 26-27, 2015 and 28th on Feb 13-14, 2016 on were also described in this blog.

ROBO-ONE Light 13th

Robot Pro-Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!30` took place in Soka City (Nov 3, 2016)

Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!30`, sponsored by Omata-san took place in Soka City on Nov 3, 2016 during the 25th Soka Chamber of Commerce and Industry Festival 2016.  Dekinnoka!30 was the 10th Dekinnoka! in Soka Camber of Commerce and Industry Festival.  The 1st Dekinnoka! took place on Nov. 3, 2008 in the Festival.

 

 

Six matches started at 2:30 pm.   One pre-match and 5 matches were carried out in the 30th.   The openinng single match was Kagura vs Yukikaze, the 1st single match was Afro vs Tokotoko-maru, the 2nd match was Galapy vs Kumataro and the 3rd match was Kanto Regional Championship, challenger Metalic-fighter vs champion Newtrino. 

 

The 4th match was tag match, Birinyan-kid, Engel-Kizer and King-Kizer, these three robots joining  Kansai Robo-wrestling TeamBambi vs Ryuketsu-kamen, Waroo and Akiba-Kizer.  The main event was Kanto Robot Heavy Weight Championship, challenger Yogoroza vs champion Saaga.  

 

Results of all matches were reported here.  NHK Capital Region News put the news of Robot Pro-Wrestling on the air.  AbemaTV also put the news of  on the air.   Sanzai-san also reported the detail of mathes (in Japanese).

 

The most interesting match was the 4th tag match.  King Kizer had a trick in professional wrestling, called dropkick to Ryuketsu-kamen as the follow picture and in the following video at 8 minutes and 14 seconds.





 

 

 

A new type Saaga attached wheels in the foot, kept the Kanto Heavy Weight Championship in 8 times as the table following the main event match 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 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  and  Dekinnoka!26 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!

Since Oct. 19th, 2009