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You may have seen the new Manoi robot from Kyosho featured on Akihabara News or Engadget, the the thing that sruck me, was its uncanny likeness to Chroino, which made big waves at this year’s RoboNexus 2005 conference (photos). Engadget claims they’re built around the Kyosho KHR-1 robot body, but I

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I had a chance to chat with the Kyosho manager in charge of the Manoi project at the Robo-One competition here. The confusion you mention in your post may have stemmed from the fact that Manoi is designed around Kondo servos, and Mr. Kondo personally participated in the Manoi press conference last Fall. The KHR-1 biped robot kit is a Kondo product (not Kyosho), so Engadget and others seemed to have jumped to the wrong conclusion that Manoi is based on KHR-1.