ABB Robotics recruiting for its Japan operation
ABB Robotics, one of the world’s leading suppliers of automation technology, is recruiting industrial robotics and automation professionals to strengthen its Japan operations in the areas of sales, marketing, and after-sales service. The successful candidates, to be based in Japan, will be foreigners fluent in Japanese, or Japanese nationals with overseas experience. ABB has offices in approxiamately 100 countries, has more than 110,000 employees globally, and world wide sales in the US$29 billion.
Japanese Robot Talk Radio program starting
There’s a new online talk radio program, Radio 848, coming up that will feature interviews with some of the top robot builders here along with the latest robot news, competitions, and developments. It will only be in Japanese, at least for now, but we plan on listening closely to every broadcast.
Getting up to speed with Processing (Video)
Great afternoon at Tokyo Hackerspace getting educated on the basics of the Processing language. In a little over three hours Akiba covered everything necessary for us to get up and running, including writing some really cool recursive graphics programs. The next step will be to start interfacing with external inputs, sensors, LEDs, and servos.
The best robots sometimes don't make it to market (Video)
Six years ago, Japan Victor Company (JVC) was showing off an amazing small bipedal robot named “J4” developed based on their unique motor and electronics technology. JVC took the high performance motors, servos, and other micro electronics used in their video tape recorders and applied it to creating a humanoid that outperformed all the other robots on the market at that time, and even most of those currently available commercially at almost any price.
Unfortunately the top JVC management felt that J4 didn’t have sufficient market potential and would be a diversion to their long term strategic plan, so the robot was never commercialized. Nevertheless, the robots designer still actively demonstrates J4 to educate and inspire budding robot enthusiasts and future engineers here.
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Kondo RoboSpot starts new multi-legged robot competition (Video)
Kondo RoboSpot is promoting a new “multi-legged” robot competition and is trying to build up interest and momentum among robot builders here. They just introduced the concept, and called for potential participants to join the initial meeting.
Builders were asked to do a self introduction, present their concept along with drawings, photos, and videos, and to participate in discussions to map out the future direction for the competition.
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