Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Kiyomori

This blog has seen its fair share of sushi, its time to cover some samurais.




A samurai robot? Cool, I want one.

If you're curious this robot is named after Taira no Kiyomori, the first Samurai ever to be named Daijyo Daijin, basically Like the Prime Minister or President of Japan.

6 comments:

Superwoman said...

I kind of expected it to do more, like swing a sword around or something.

Sushiboy said...

To be honest I thought the walking was the coolest thing. This robot claims to be the most realistic walker of all robot bipeds. But if you insist, here is a video of Kiyomori walking and sitting, oooooh! (actually sitting and standing is a tremendously difficult thing to achieve in a robot, especially one of this size.)

Sans Pantaloons said...

Yay, pretty cool. Just another million lines of code to get it to stand itself up when it falls over.
Or is that Vista?

Sushiboy said...

I'd say thats Vista, But I think the solution there is a restart :)

Anonymous said...

What about Kiyomori the rock band... they have a song called Dance Like a Robot... someone should get these two together!

Sushiboy said...

I think that the rock band needs to make the first move. I don't think Robots are so social that way :). BTW thx for visiting my blog. Come again!