Tokyo Univ. invented a GOD's Hand

Tokyo univ. invented a God hand that never loose at rock-paper-scissor game.
This robot arm win with 100% accuracy.



As shown in the video clip, the robot hand just determine and show its rock, paper, scissor that should win 100% just right after human showed rock, paper scissor. During this entire process, it only takes 1 millisecond. So human's eye can barely recognize that the robot arm shows its hand just right after you show your hand.

Professor Ishikaw told;
'We wanted to share the technology behind this. To develop such a ultra-second video camera, it took 20 years, and for such a quick motion control of the robot hand, it took 10 years respectively.'

It really depends who thinks worth to develop with a decade, so I don't make my comment.

But this video clip gives us a good notion, that is;
A robot can beat human-beings in a way that may conceived as fair fight due to the lack of enough capability of human-beings' natural organs, but the truth is exactly just a phony fight where a robot wins 100%.

Suit to become ASIMO

Just one year ago, I wrote the blog to describe the latest technology of Robot. (June 26th, 2011).

And my previous blog introduce the pet robot which is controllable through iPhone.

As such, the technology is evolving and new robots are coming out in various way.

Now Asimo is the famous robot developped by Honda,  because of its capability of two-legs-walking. But unfortunately, it is not sold in the market yet.

Then, the wearable suit that makes you look like Asimo is sold at Trendshop Japan, at a price of JPY 40,000 (about USD 400).  Is this expensive? If you compare with the price of real Asimo, it won't be.

Before you make your decision to buy this suit, here are some warnings from the manufacturer.

-Once you wear this suit, it is quite difficult to climb up or go down stairs by yourself, while real-Asimo can do these things by itself alone.

- Make sure that someone will be near you after you wear this suit, because you can not take off this suit by yourself. You definitely need a help from human to wear off the suit.

After considerations on those warnings seriously and still you think it is worth, please buy this suit. It's all your  money.

Do you like humanoid robot?

The video clip I found out yesterday really impressed me. :)
I didn't know the robot came to this far.

And here is another video clip taken at the same event,



In this video, they are comparing latest version of the robot and one generation older robot, and emphasising what the latest one can do while older one can't do and how new one improved many things, putting both type of robots side by side. (Grinding its waist is what new one can do and older one can't do, etc.)


Okay, I think I had seen similar situation in somewhere.
Oh, it definitely was in RoboCop. I forgot the name, but the company that once developed Robo Cop created new ones, and emphasised how new robot is superior than old one,

Exactly the same thing is happening in this video. Older robot came onto the stage just to show how new one is superior than the old one.

I can't help but I feel sorry for the old version of the robot, really.

What are Japanese robots doing when Fukushima faces hard time?

Still, there are a lot of things to do in Fukushima Nuclear power plant until it becomes stable to cool down the reactor. All on-site workers are working  for long hours, with wearing heavy anti-radio active uniform. Until this season it may be endurable for workers keep wearing those uniforms. But soon the summer season will be coming and it is expected the temperature goes up to more than 40C very soon.

So, I wonder what Japanese robots are doing. If they could replace human workers, it will significantly reduce the burden which are now only on human beings.

Then I found out at youtube what they are doing.

They are dancing, and singing on the stage.


This video clip was taken in October, 2010.

The other day, I watched TV program in which some very famous doctors in the robot research lab got together and had open discussions. Some of them said that Japanese robot industry tend to stick too much to humanoid robots. And some said, despite of the critics about the fact that none of the robots have been working so far when actual trouble happens, that they will keep all their focus on developing humanoid robots until it comes into our dairy life. I think both opinions are correct.

It is a bit ashamed that none of the robots developed by Japan is working on site.
But like we see in a super computer industry, which has just developed the world's fastest super computer this year regardless of the significant budget cut of the Government's subsidiary for the project,  I hope those hard critics will help robots industry to expand their focus more widely as a whole.


For the record, if we could say that unmanned track vehicle to carry the debris as one of robots, yes those Japanese made vehicles have already been working on site.

And yesterday, first Japan made robot 'Quince' went into the building of the Fukushima reactor to measure the radio-active contaminated water.

So, I am expecting more robots are coming into this facility to help human beings.

Now Robot developed in Japan is ready to send to Fukushima Nuclear Powerplant

So, at last, Robot developed in Japan is ready to sent to Fukushima nuclear power plant. This robot is originally developed as rescure robot, and had been expected to send to Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant from the beginning.
But due to the high level radio active in Fukushima plant, the IC circuit of it is anticipated to be melt down in quite few minutes.

Chiba Kogyou Univ. and Tohoku Univ. modified to enforce anti-radio active protection and made sure that it will work under 100 Sv/h environment, which is 400 times higher radio-active level that people can work.

This robot has an arm,

can climb over stairs and debris, shoot laser beam to get 3D image and measure radio active level.