For one million dollars, Amazon Japan will sell you the giant Kuratas

Posted by rcarmo on Saturday January 10, 2015 @12:10PM
from the intorobotics.com dept.

http://www.intorobotics.com/one-million-dollar-amazon-japan-will-sell-giant-kuratas/

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Re:For one million dollars, Amazon Japan will sell you the g... by rcarmo on Saturday January 10, 2015 @12:13PM (#8867166)

The HOWTO video is... fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iZ0WuNvHr8

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Re:For one million dollars, Amazon Japan will sell you the g... by everyone on Saturday January 10, 2015 @12:33PM (#8867254)

Does anyone else get the impression that though the japanese may be obsessed with robots they are way behind the rest of the world in terms of technology? For example compare Hondas asimo to Boston Dynamics' atlas.

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Re:For one million dollars, Amazon Japan will sell you the g... by gadjo95 on Saturday January 10, 2015 @05:08PM (#8868123)

It's just that you are not following closely what companies in Japan are doing. As a reminder Shaft company bought by Google was way better than the robot from Boston Dynamics during the Darpa Challenge: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/schaft...

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