Robo-One 9: Robot Competition - OMNIZERO.2

Posted on March 27th, 2006 | by admin |

The robot that literally ran away with the top prize in the Demonstration phase of the 9th Robo-One competition held here in Tokyo on March 18-19th, 2006, was OMNIZERO.2, the brainchild of Takeshi Maeda. Not only is the robot a technical tour-de-force, Maeda is also quite a showman. His 2 minute demonstration of the robot’s capabilities included putting it to sleep, waking up, running, jumping, posing, and visual object tracking. And, right at the end of his performance, Maeda puts the robot back to sleep and wishes it sweet dreams. OMNIZERO.2 is definitely the ’state of the art’ in Robo-One class robots today. For more on OMNIZERO.2 and the latest robot news, information, hacks, photos, and videos with special on-site coverage from Japan, see Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dreams.com

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  1. 24 Responses to “Robo-One 9: Robot Competition - OMNIZERO.2”

  2. By mountaindewzilla on Mar 29, 2006 | Reply

    That was fantastic.
    That was fantastic.

  3. By AnimalTnT on Mar 29, 2006 | Reply

    °o°
    °o°

  4. By romar91 on Mar 29, 2006 | Reply

    i wish i had 1 any …
    i wish i had 1 any idea how much and where can i get 1

  5. By ricefarmer on Apr 3, 2006 | Reply

    see why the hell …
    see why the hell does the robosapien get all this fuckin stupid hype when u have this shit going on in japan? give credit where credit is due robo sapien is a piece of shit and all other robot american toy

  6. By ieatflux1 on Apr 3, 2006 | Reply

    great, we got the …
    great, we got the few basics down… now we gotta supersize em to the size of a jumbo jet, give it a jet pack, maybe a few chain guns… and voila, we can make em fight and weve got a new sport.

  7. By hmongcaliforniaboy on May 7, 2006 | Reply

    how much for sales? …
    how much for sales? i buy it…

  8. By skillums on May 24, 2006 | Reply

    Robo-Raptor is …
    Robo-Raptor is trash compared to these homebrewed Japan robots. Whoever paid $200 for Robo-Raptor should destroy it and get a full refund.

  9. By malanhelen on Aug 13, 2006 | Reply

    do you think they …
    do you think they are radio controlled or preprogramed? it looks like a lot of joints to move with a joystick.

  10. By apetechnology on Sep 9, 2006 | Reply

    nice posing!
    nice posing!

  11. By predking on Oct 5, 2006 | Reply

    Hell yeah!
    Hell yeah!

  12. By britoca on Jan 3, 2007 | Reply

    not sure if that …
    not sure if that was true running. is there a slow-mo for that?

  13. By rbrine01 on Feb 4, 2007 | Reply

    Cool stuff. …
    Cool stuff. Anybody know the music overdubbed in the background?

  14. By zukuzukuzukuzuku on Apr 28, 2007 | Reply

    how does it move so …
    how does it move so fast!???

  15. By tempusmaster on Apr 28, 2007 | Reply

    OmniZero.2 was …
    OmniZero.2 was designed by Maeda (the fellow talking during the demonstration). He works for VStone - one of the top humanoid robot companies in Japan and built a lot of the Japanese RoboCup entries.

  16. By Charnelbone on May 21, 2007 | Reply

    ha now this is what …
    ha now this is what im fucking talking about!!! If this robot can jump, run, follow shit it sees, and fucking swings its hands like a fist fight, then we have right there the basics of a giant battle robot. I just dont understand why bigger robots cant move like that

  17. By tshen2 on Jun 1, 2007 | Reply

    Well, inertia, …
    Well, inertia, among other things. You can’t simply scale things up - ants scurry around on spindly little legs because they are tiny, whereas elephants require tree-trunk legs just to stand up.

  18. By strabbi on Jun 17, 2007 | Reply

    it’s somthing …
    it’s somthing called gravity :O

  19. By therealkillaguy on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply

    THAT ROBOT IS SOOOO …
    THAT ROBOT IS SOOOO COOOOOL, i want one haha

  20. By heavybike on Jun 24, 2007 | Reply

    incredible!!
    …
    incredible!!
    pretty cool!!!

  21. By Clanmemberkalvin on Jul 19, 2007 | Reply

    He kicks sooooooo …
    He kicks sooooooo much assss!!

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  23. By hsbhotmail1 on Aug 21, 2007 | Reply

    cool!
    cool!

  24. By neoreaper99 on Aug 31, 2007 | Reply

    This was a pretty …
    This was a pretty impressive display of humanoid movements. I like this little guy…hes got spunk.

    Charnelbone…if you ever see this… the reason bigger bots cant move like that is because of weight displacement and other little junk things that we have that a bot just cant seem quite to be able to do.

  25. By deathtax10 on Sep 12, 2007 | Reply

    You should see him …
    You should see him in the competition. He friggin rapes his opponent in some round i watched earlier

    and along with what neo said, charnel, its just not wise, or logical, to base something on a large scale soley because it works on a small scale. When you would inflate little omni here to the size of your “battle robot”, you have to have exact mathematical precision for maintaining the dimensions of the robot, the wiring, etc. So it’s not very realistic right now…

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