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From: green@vis.toronto.edu (Anthony Thomas Green)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Robot Olympics
Message-ID: <90Oct25.093538edt.8240@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 13:35:50 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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> Edinburgh?  I heard a short report on it today in the morning on the
> BBC and they mentioned that the most successful robot was one designed
> in Japan, which executed some kind of obstacle avoidance and compliant
> motion.  The programme did not go into technical details.  

Yes, I was at the Robot Olympics. In fact the Japanese robot, Yamabico,
did win the overall "best" robot award. It's a pretty nice bit of hardware.
Shooji Suzuki brought it over from Tsuka university. I'm sure he can
provide more techincal details than I can...
 ssuzuki@roboken.is.tsukuba.ac.jp (JUNET)
 ssuzuki%roboken.is.tsukuba.ac.jp.@jpntsuku.BITNET

But I can't let this one go by... Yamabico took 3rd place in obstacle 
avoidance. Gold went to a robot built by myself and Pavel Rozalski, here
at the University of Toronto. 

Anthony Green
green@ai.toronto.edu