Inaugural Kyosho Athlete Humanoid Cup Coverage

Lem from Robots-Dreams has written an excellent article for ROBOT Magazine on the first ever Kyosho Athlete Humanoid Cup. The event took place on December 10th in Tokyo, Japan. The robots competed in 5 meter sprints and in a 2 minute performance/demonstration category.

The fastest human controlled 5 meter sprint was from a modified Manoi-AT01 and clocked in at 11.540 seconds. The fastest robot in the autonomous sprint category was 1 minute 39.930 sec. Some of the robots took advantage of higher torque leg servos over the stock servos.

Interestingly enough, quite a few women competed. This seems to be unique to Japan.

Kyosho worked closely with Kondo and Tomotaka Takahashi to develop the Manoi AT01 humanoid robot.

The Manoi-AT01 can be purchased in the USA via Trossen Robotics for $1,499.

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2 Responses to “Inaugural Kyosho Athlete Humanoid Cup Coverage”

1. Jim Kelly Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

   I would really love to have one of these, but $1500.00 is just out of my price range. I wish someone would do an inventory of the parts in this bot and price out each part individually… I’ve looked at prices for servo motors and I just cannot understand how the prices of these bots get so high… they’ve got to have a HUGE profit margin on them. I know that the frames for the servos and the outer shell have to be machined/manufactured, but come on… I refuse to believe that they’re not making 100%+ profit on this thing… which means that all the components are probably under $800.00 total. Then again, I may be completely wrong

   Jim

2. Jason Says:
   June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

   I’ve looked at the Robonova prices for components for the same reason. When you look at the specific servos that are being used (higher torque, faster response, greater range of motion), you get most of the cost of the bot. Throw in the controllers, battery, and software, and it’s not really all that profitable for the company (unless the servos themselves have a huge markup). The Robonova is cheaper than these, but these should be a lot better. I don’t have any of the humanoid robots yet for precisely the cost reasons, but I’ve been following the Robots Dreams blog pretty closely. Lots of great information there.

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