360º VR- Robots at ROBOTIS Japan!

Thank you. Is it this one? Konnichi wa, Hello, I am… Oh, yes. Mike Hello! Hello! It’s a bit of a distance. I just walked from Akihabara electronics street and then come here. Very cool Because you said it is very interesting so I will take a look. So yeah this is just kind of like their meeting room. Nice to meet you. They got robotics. So there is their big humanoid robot. Wow. Oh, yea.

01:57 - Well, only this one? Educational robot? Well, it’s for… Did you hear of the DARPA Robotic? That’s the disaster rescue robot challenge? So what happened is that DARPA funded the rescue robot competition challenge and Thor is a product of that So they basically had seven tasks you had to do, one of which is walk up stairs. One of them is to open the door. You will be surprised at how difficult it is just to open up the door because when you turn the knob and you push, Either the robot hands fall in and stuff and then have to walk over debris had to use a power tool Who made this? This is actually collaboration from Robotis Oh. So Shibata, he is the He is the creator of this. Well, this is a Robotis collaboration So I am from Shenzhen and robots are very common in Shenzhen.

03:01 - You know DJI? Recently we make something like that one. So educational robots are popular in China and this kind of robot probably will be popular in China also. We’re thinking about delivery robots. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. I don’t have a card. I only have a Youtube channel, it’s easier like Twitter, Facebook, Wechat, Line, yeah Wechat is very popular there. So this one, what are they going to use it for? So this is a product, this is like the third version of Thor-Mang. So it was started with the DARPA Robotics Challenge and this is the result of Robotis working to create a humanoid robot. It has many different applications.

03:51 - Like I said so remember with the Okay, so at first our Oh, they are going to demo it. Oh, cool. Ok, they will start that, so he is, you know the Robocup？ Robocup? Robocup. The world’s best-known competition of robots I guess. Mostly I only know the robots from China and America. I know the Robomaster. Robomaster, yes, it is sponsored by DJI. I know the Japanese team is taking part in the competition right now. Cool. Oh, it is being held right now. Oh, yes, yes. He is Robocup competition champion. Wow.

04:45 - I got the first prize in last year’s international competition. Yea, with this robot so With this one? Which one? Yeah, I Oh, that’s why I think it looks like the ones in Robotmaster. As you can see, this is the small size rescue robot. Okay. So you may have seen the bigger ones, much bigger ones. Like the rescue robots and this is kind of the small size of that one. It is going to pick up I think the pringles can over there. Ok, do it. Oh, now? Yes, of course. Let me show you. Yes, they have been practicing. Yeah. So it is functional like a waiter or waitress robot. It’s a lot more difficult than it sounds. Putting like a tray and food on the table. Yeah. bussing the table Yeah. That’s actually Difficult. Yeah, very difficult task. Yeah. Lift it up, pick it up Okay, there you go. So this is one of the, this is kind of similar idea but this is a Turtlebot 3, it’s an open-source project so it uses the lidar sensor It uses the Raspberry Pi and then this is like a really souped-up Arduino board. So this is this place this like a four or five hundred dollar little kits. Wow, four or five hundred dollars.

06:32 - Yes, but it’s not 100,000 dollars like this guy. 100,000 dollars? Yes, so this is one of theirs like for educational purpose high school college kids can.. Do a lot of people use it? Because in China they don’t have very good tutorials. We have robots but we don’t have very good tutorials. The one who actually use like micro-bit they have teachers who write the instruction in Chinese. I don’t think programmers are very good at writing instructions. So robotics have a lot of educational kits and they have really good manuals. Examples Yes, they have great manuals for the teachers and for the kids because they even have people with PhDs in education help them develop those manuals You have any of the? so I designed the prototype of the Turtlebot 3 so Japanese, Korean and US and the more country people This is your other kit, you develop this arm too, right? You only sell the arm for this package? Only the arm? Yes. and join to our mobile platform. Oh, this can be put on this one. Yes, it will be better. This one. I see. so I say it’s a cheaper version something so that’s hundreds of thousand dollars and that’s a little bit cheaper for colleges and universities to use. Usually, who will buy this? That would be a university that does the DARPA Robotics Challenge or you can actually have on the RoboCup soccer they have full-sized human-like robots like that competing It’s mainly a research of development platforms.

08:36 - Sell it to Chinese, Chinese will use it for delivery. .