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.