Robot Laser Tag – Thunderbolt by Yoshihiro Shibata (Video)

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Yoshihiro Shibata believes that robot and motion design is an art, and he aspires to be one of the top artists in his chosen field.

He should know. For the past few years he worked for Kondo Robot in Tokyo where he was the product manager for the KHR-2HV and KHR-3HV humanoid robots as well as the frame design for the Kyosho MANOI AT-01 robot.

His skill is very evident in the video above. Taken by a head mounted camera, the video is surprisingly stable showing how smooth and reliably the robots balance and movements are, even while playing a fast game of Blaser robot laser tag.

Shibata recently spun off on his own and is designing robots and taking on projects via his new company named LightFoot. He's also actively involved in staging robot events and is the technical director for the Robot Japan competitions.

He also did pretty well at RoboGames 2011 in California last month:

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Posted by Lem on May 14, 2011 in Builders, Design, Events, Kondo, MANOI, ROBO-ONE, RoboGames, Videos | 1 comment

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One comment

  1. Mister Noboto
    May 16, 2011

    I don’t trust robots with weapons.

    Mr. Noboto
    http://noboto.blogspot.com

    Reply

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