In celebration of Children's Day (which is also the day we celebrate
Cinco de Mayo), our pals running the Robo-One competition announced a prizefight for what they've apparently dubbed Robo-One GP 2006 (Season 1) to take place in Bucheon Robo Park. The fighters: Japan's infamous
Dynamizer on this side; Korea's Gadget on the other. Unfortunately we didn't get a chance to see the fight (seems like they neglected to set up a Pay-Per-View feed), but surprisingly even despite the Dynamizer was hooked into a rig that mimicked its master's movements during the bout, the hand-controlled Gadget remained victorious. A severe blow was surely never dealt to Japan's national sense of pride. We understand the 13 year old boy controlling the Dynamizer was heard shouting "I'll get you next time, Gadget --
in space."
posted May 8th 2006 4:42PM
Time to employ a proofreader perchance?
Inspector Gadget?
Damn. And I was impressed by robot I put together with the VEX kit that was on woot.com last month. I made a little video of it and put it in my "site's URL" thing above.
I can see I have a LOT left to learn. Like how to counterweight and balance, for one ;)
"We understand the 13 year old boy controlling the Dynamizer was heard shouting "I'll get you next time, Gadget"
What? Not "I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away"?
DOCTOR CLAW!
Nice reference, Maikeru!
Time to watch the "brain splatter" part of EoE again.
What will they come up with next!
oh the never ending battles between Japan and Korea... fun stuff.
Although Dynamizer (Sugiura Family) does use a master/slave control, it's implemented as a part of the remote control - not via a body harness device. One of the other participating Robo-One robots from Japan - the Great Majingaa - uses the body harness master slave design, and was controlled by the '13 year old boy'.