Perhaps this is my post is not entirely in the topic of Habra, because it is not very connected with the Internet, but for some reason I think that there could be people who are interested in this topic. And the attention of dear readers I want to draw on humanoid robots. Probably, with this phrase, everyone immediately recalls the big hulking robot ASIMO from Honda , and they wonder, "Is it already old what is there to write about?". But I just wanted to write not about him, but about the modern achievements of entertainment robot building - the robots of which can be assembled and programmed practically from the designers themselves.
Here is a typical representative of this class KHR-2HV from Kondo:
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Apparently engineering thought has progressed far enough over the last couple - three years. And most importantly, such a constructor costs only about $ 1,400! (including ours www.rusandroid.com/rob.html )
In fact, robots are built not only for entertainment alone - in Japan, various competitions of robots, including fights, are flourishing. For example, sketching from YouTube:
Personally, this topic seems to me very interesting, that's why I write here - maybe there are like-minded people at Habré?