Whose kung-fu is the best?
Japanese scientists have developed prototype robots capable of performing martial marts moves. All they need to do now is scale them up to fifteen meters or so...
No owrd yet on their progress on getting these robots to leap into the air and combine into a bigger robot. [via Gizmodo]Visitors to CEATEC 2003 (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) met Morph3, a human-like robot about 30-centimetres tall developed by researchers at the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan. It can perform back flips and karate moves thanks to 138 pressure sensors, 30 different onboard motors and 14 computer processors.
Another miniature humanoid robot on display was Fujitsu's HOAP-2. This droid has been programmed to perform moves from the Chinese martial art taijiquan, as well as Japanese Sumo wrestling stances.
