"Robot Kingdom" - Japanese Robotics
(factoid) - Japan has half the world's industrial robot population
Robotics Index:
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Hisashige Tanaka
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GENERAL
Robotics Organizations in Japan
"Loving the Machine : The Art and Science of Japanese Robots"
- book by T.N. Hornyak
Short History of Japanese Technology
Akihabara Robot Culture Festival
[2]
Robo Cafe Osaka [1]
[2]
Robot-Museum Nagoya
Akihabara:
Tsukumo Robot Kingdom
[2],
Sengoku Densho,
RT Corp Robot School,
akibalive
[robots],
Akiba Technopark
Tezuka Osamu World - Mighty Atom
Misc:
Japan Robotech
KARAKURI
World Karakuri Contest [1]
[2]
Hisashige Tanaka [1]
[2] - Karakuri Giemon, gadget wizard
"Karakuri-zui"
[2]
[3]
[4]
- "Illustrated Compendium of Clever Machines", 1790s
Misc:
karakuri.info,
Karakuri Corner,
factbites
INDUSTRIAL
Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry - (MITI renamed)
AIST - Nat'l Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology -
robotics,
biorobotics
Int'l Robot Exhibition Tokyo (industrial robots - 150 companies)
Japan Robot Association
Companies:
Bandai,
Fujitsu Automation,
IDG Japan,
Kokoro,
Kondo Kagaku,
Murata,
Tmsuk
RESEARCHERS
Waseda -
"Development of Waseda Robot"
Chiba Inst of Technology (Advanced Robotics) - Future Robotics Technology Center
Atsuo Takanishi
(Waseda U) - humanoids, WABIAN, WL-16RII, WF-4RII - (Tmsuk)
Hiroaki Kitano [1]
[2] (Sony) - Robocup cofounder, Pino, systems biology
Hirochika Inoue (Tokyo U) - H6/H7
[Tokyo]
Hirohisa Hirukawa (AIST - Natl Inst Adv Industrial Sci Tech) -
humanoid
Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka U)
- Vision Nexta perception, Robovie, android science
Hiroshi Kobayashi
[2]
(Tokyo U) - android emotiveness
Ichiro Kato
(Waseda U) - Waseda hand, WAM-4, WL-5, WABOT, Wasubot - (Imasen Engineering)
Masahiro Mori
(Mukta Research Inst) - "The Buddha in the Robot", Triops Congregans,
uncanny valley
Masashi Igarashi (Business Design Lab Nagoya) - yorisoi ifbot
Masato Hirose (Honda) - Asimo
Minoru Asada (Osaka U) -
soccer, MI
Mitsuo Kawato (ATR Comp.Neur Lab, Kyoto) - humanoids, "Atom Project"
Nobuo Yamato
(Vstone Osaka) - Vision Nexta
Sakakibara Kikai - Land Walker
Shuji Hashimoto (Waseda U) - humanoids, vision
Takanori Shibata
(AIST) - Paro, "mental commitment robot"
Tatsuzo Ishida
(Sony Entertainment) - Qrio
Tomotaka Takahashi
(Robo Garage Kyoto)
- Magdan, Chroino, Robofie, Vision Nexta, Neon, Manoi
Toru Takenaga
[2]
(Honda) - Asimo
Toshitada Doi
[2]
(Sony) - Aibo, Qrio
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoyo U) - brachiation
Yochi Takamoto + Yasuyoshi Yokokoji - Enryu T-52 Advance - rescue
Yoshiyuki Sankai (Tsukuba U) - HAL hybrid assistive limb
Yukiko Nakagawa (RT Corp) - KHR-1
JAPANESE ROBOTS
Wakamaru
(Mitsubishi) - household
ApriAlpha/ApriAttenda (Toshiba) - household
Banryu (Tmsuk) - security dragon
Enon (Fujitsu) - store clerk
Hello Kitty Robo (Business Design Lab)
- conversation bot
Hirb (Sanyo Electric) - wheelchair bathtub
Land Walker [1]
[2]
(Sakakibara Kikai) - 11' tall walker
Morph3 - 15" tall biped, 138-sensors
Net Tansor (Bandai Robot Lab)
- telepresence
Nuvo
[2]
(ZMP Inc) - 15-DOF biped, speech
Paro
[2]
(AIST) - robot seal, therapeutic - (Intelligent System Co)
Roborior (Tmsuk)
SmartPal (Yaskawa Electric) - robot waiter
Yorisoi ifbot (Business Design Lab)
- conversation bot, 1000s of speech patterns, dozens of affects, voice recog, riddles, word games
ROBOT SOCCER
RoboCup Japan
founders: Kitano, Minaru Asada (Osaka U), Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Humanoid League
Four-legged League - Aibo
Middle-sized league
Team Minho (Portugal)
Team nimbRo (U Freiburg)
Team Osaka - Vision Nexta
JAPANESE WORDS
buki = weapon, arms
dashi = festival float
densetsu = lengend, tradition
dokei = clock (mannendokei = enternal clock)
enmei = long life, longevity
esu = ace
furu metaru = full metal
gakutensoku = learning from nature law
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Gundam = "mobile suit", giant, humanoid super-robots -
wiki,
MAHQ,
Gundam-official
inshi = hermit, recluse
iyashi = healing and relaxing effect
jinzo ningen = artificial person, android
karakuri = gadget, mechanism, automata
kadou, mobi-ru = mobile
kisai = wizard
koji, iko = orphan
kyojin = giant god
manjin = demon god, genie
minagoroshi = kill'em all
monozukuri = making thing, manufacturing
ningen sizo = manufactured man
otaku = geek, nerd, enthusiast
robotto = robots
sakoku = national seclusion, exclusion of foreigners
senkan = battleship
senshi = soldier
shakuhachi = bamboo flute
shin seiki = neon genesis
shinto - "way of the gods", animist religion, venerates nature forces
shonen = "few years" (manga, anime for all boys)
somoku jobutsu = doctrine that inanimate objects can contain spirits
taishi = ambassador
takara = treasure
tsukumogami = "attached death spirits", tools that come to life
Ushiwakamaru = 12th C. general Minamoto no Yoshitsune
yagura = scaffold, turret
Zaku = humanoid robots from Zeon
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