Robot bullying in Japan
One of Japan’s pervasive social problems is their culture of ijime/bullying. Check out this Toyota girl pushing around her robot “coworker” and how Mr. Roboto remains balanced even after pushed by the bully and is able to run away at 7 km/h (4.4 MPH, which is a 13 minute, 40 second mile).
The video above, “….demonstrates the running capabilities of the new humanoid robot. The robot takes a step every 340ms and has no contact with the ground for 100ms of that…more info at smart-machines.blogspot.com...
I wish the Japanese would work on more practical robots like this four-legged robot mule, which also gets bullied a lot.
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August 2nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Woaa!!…the way how they move their legs freaks me out, it’s wierd….they somehow scare me, i can’t explain :S
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
You think that’s weird, check out at 14:56/28:29 of the video the walking gate of this robot I meet in the 1985 SEXPO* in 1985.
*Yes, “SEXPO” was the original name of the Science Expo in Tsukuba Japan, which was hastily renamed EXPO ‘85 a few days before the opening.
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