Robot Sumo is Real Sumo...

20-05-2006, 17:19

Joe Johnson Joe Johnson is offline

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Robot Sumo is Real Sumo...

I know it isn't going to happen, but I can tell you first hand* and also from watching this video of the All Japan Robot Sumo tournament that a straight up robot pushing match can be a lot of fun. It does not have to be violent to be fun. I am not saying we should have a robot-cage-match with saws, etc.

I don't know how to put it into a FIRST enviroment, but there may be some elements of a robot sumo match that we could learn from.

I really recommend the video. Very cool.

Joe J.

*Robotic Amusment's first product is called Robo-Basho(TM) a 3 way robot king-of-the-hill game. It is really fun.

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