raman@ask.cs.cornell.edu (T. V. Raman) (10/17/90)
Hi! Does anyone have details about the Robot Olympics held recently in Edinburgh? I heard a short report on it today in the morning on the BBC and they mentioned that the most successful robot was one designed in Japan, which executed some kind of obstacle avoidance and compliant motion. The programme did not go into technical details. Could someone out there, especially some in the UK give us more information? --Raman ============================================================================== | T.V.Raman | | 311 Sage Hall Ex:5-7626 || 4155 Upson Hall Ex:5-5565 | | Email: raman@macomb.tn.cornell.edu || raman@cs.cornell.edu |
green@vis.toronto.edu (Anthony Thomas Green) (10/25/90)
> Edinburgh? I heard a short report on it today in the morning on the > BBC and they mentioned that the most successful robot was one designed > in Japan, which executed some kind of obstacle avoidance and compliant > motion. The programme did not go into technical details. Yes, I was at the Robot Olympics. In fact the Japanese robot, Yamabico, did win the overall "best" robot award. It's a pretty nice bit of hardware. Shooji Suzuki brought it over from Tsuka university. I'm sure he can provide more techincal details than I can... ssuzuki@roboken.is.tsukuba.ac.jp (JUNET) ssuzuki%roboken.is.tsukuba.ac.jp.@jpntsuku.BITNET But I can't let this one go by... Yamabico took 3rd place in obstacle avoidance. Gold went to a robot built by myself and Pavel Rozalski, here at the University of Toronto. Anthony Green green@ai.toronto.edu