At a recent
ROBO-ONE 11 event, which sees hapless robots performing various demeaning tasks to the delight of the onlookers and honor of their builders, OmniZero.4 from Takeshi Maeda took the top prize, with a demonstration score of 453. Of course, it doesn't really take a whole lot to delight the judges -- OmniZero.4 managed to climb some steps, perform a somersault, jump some rope and crack a couple of eggs without making a fool of himself, hardly worthy of a machine whose descendants will one day rule the earth. At least it makes for some decent entertainment, so peep the video after the break, and then get to working on your own very ninja-bot to whip up on next year's domesticated competition.
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posted Mar 28th 2007 9:35AM
I, for one, welcome our new somersaulting, rope-jumping, egg-cracking robotic overlords.
I couldn't help it.
Wow! this little bot is great.
I love his giant lobster claw like hands.
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So, who can tell me... is someone "working" that little fellah or does he work out what to do next according to, say, what he's given,like the skipping rope?
Even without the "intelligence", that IS one compact, dexterous and capable little 'bot.
Now just replace eggs with........
human skulls!