Kondo bot battles rage in Japan, vision of humanity's imminent destruction crystallize
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted May 10th 2009 4:16PM
posted May 10th 2009 4:16PM
posted May 10th 2009 4:16PM
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Because they can't blend?
In Japan, the robots blend the blender.
Thanks - now I'll be hearing the "tap, tap, tap" of their little feet in my nightmares.
Crap, that didn't work,
No, I'M Spartacus.
"...but are you aware that a "Kondo Battle" exists where the bots duke it out to the death (or until they fall over)?"
Yes, old news, blah blah blah. Haven't they been doing this every year since 2006 or something?
I think u embedded the picture link wrong. It takes me to engadget with the link: "http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/10/kondo-bot-battles-rage-in-japan-vision-of-humanitys-imminent-d/www.networkworld.com/community/node/41674"
Nice G.I. Joe ref, Snakeyes.
cute.
last one was the best! :)
Knowing is half the battle for these bots as well.
When they become sentient enough to know that they're fighting- that's when we need to worry.
While at the store/library today, I read in Popular Mechanics that there is a 31 year old in the states, that BUILT a huge "Mecha" (as he calls it) 50 feet tall. And the operator sits in it's chest cavity ala Gundam/Robo Jox
Yeah if you search Engadget you can get more info/pictures (and if I remember correctly, even video or at least a link to his website). It's amazing.
If anyone knows where you can import these kits to the US could you please e-mail me at oshidori@gmail.com or reply to this comment? I am looking for something just like this and I won't be in Japan for another year.
Wow, that black robot with the flashing blue eye was awesome.
I don't think I'm too worried yet, but if it had a red "eye" that tracked side to side and repeated "By your command", then I'd run for my life..
Be very afraid..singularity is near!
While these may look cool, they are -not- doing any dynamic balancing, so this is nothing advanced nor cutting edge. The reason they seem to prefer to punch to the side is that they would simply fall over if they tried to punch forward.
I'll be impressed when there's real biped robots with normal sized feet battling it out. Hmm this probably came out as a pretty bitter comment hehe. I had to! It seems many people here think that these bots are doing real balancing!
Just wait till Apple gets a hold of of one of these and sells it on contracts with overpriced proprietary downloadable moves from Robostore and a shit camera! I want one in the shape of Steve Jobs wearing a Skivvy with a bitten Apple for a head.
Remember Robot Jox? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/
This reminds me of a mini-version of that. I used to love that film!
mush get one hey if they make one of these about a hundred times bigger they could make a Mobile Suit gundam, thats pretty dangerous,
but cool,
How about Chobits
(hopefully they make .hack// games)
must have