RAYERD-X busts crazy Transformer moves

Man, if we'd had Transformers like this when we were kids, we'd be, well,  even geekier and more socially awkward than we already are. As you well know, it takes a pretty special robot to catch our attention around here, and Japanese manufacturer Asurada's RAYERD-X (pronounced, apparently -- no "Engrish" jokes please -- Layered-X) did just that with crazy contortionist moves that would make even the most flexible gymnast wince in pain. Asurada entered the quadrupedal automaton in the Ninth Robo-One competition in Tokyo, where it wowed the crowds with such moves as the crab crawl, humanoid pose-down, and the most difficult position of all, the Iron Cross (well, kind of). Unfortunately for the design team, RAYERD-X, for all 28 of its servos and innumerable configurations, only captured 24th place at what must have been an extremely heated competition, although it did manage to take home the pretty important-sounding "Sunrise Special Prize."

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[Jarmayn @ Mar 26th 2006 5:56PM]

Wow that�s really good. I seriously wonder if society will ever deem robots as a norm hence allowing them to fully interact with everyone.. that movie i-Robot is kinda what I�m talking about even tho I never seen it� but yeah in China etc they�re having problems since soon there will be many old people and not enough younger people to take care of the elders so they had a robot that can even carry people.. I don�t see this too feasible but I have to say that in the last decade or so robotics has really changed, I can�t wait o see what the future has in store. FREE HTC UNIVERSAL www.e-Fuze.com

[daschupa @ Mar 26th 2006 6:39PM]

^^
Nah, then there'd be a variety of operating systems on each robot and everyone would perfer one over another starting a robot race riot with books like irobots are from Unix, MS robots are from x86, until robots had completley replaced mankind and then devoted their existence to shrinking everything to fit inside an nes console and controller.

[IseWise @ Mar 26th 2006 8:22PM]

Looks like the video has been removed, I cant find it : (

[tempusmaster @ Mar 26th 2006 9:58PM]

The video is there. Apparently Youtube, where I have it hosted, wasn't available for a short period of time, but it's working okay now.

[EB Ferret @ Mar 26th 2006 10:00PM]

Linux robots would win

[Ben @ Mar 26th 2006 10:30PM]

Deck the halls with boughs of horry, ra ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra.

Sorry had to.

[Henry @ Mar 27th 2006 12:02AM]

I, for one, welcome our new transforming, busta-moving robot overlords.

[Kibiyama @ Mar 27th 2006 7:59AM]

Dammit, Henry. You beat me to it!

[clicclic @ Mar 27th 2006 9:59AM]

Video gone again? (monday morning 10am EST)

[BSTalker @ Mar 27th 2006 11:12AM]

Erm yeah to all the TV broadcasting companies out there...

Why the heck are you not showing a dubbed or subbed version of the Robo-One compertition you people must be nuts!

Maybe the rights are too much for western TV broadcasters to pay?

[David F @ Mar 27th 2006 1:03PM]

I made a torrent of all the vids I could find on their site

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3462902

Please help seed