{"id":401379,"date":"2010-03-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5487509"},"modified":"2010-03-07T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:00:00","slug":"robot-pokemon-kojiro-would-destroy-asimo-with-musculoskeletal-jujitsu-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/401379","title":{"rendered":"Robot Pokemon: Kojiro Would Destroy Asimo with Musculoskeletal Jujitsu [Robots]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kojiro here is the work of Tokyo’s JSK Robotics Laboratory. With his 60 degrees of motion, provided by a network of Super Effective!<\/em> artificial muscles and tendons, he’ll utterly destroy Asimo in the inevitable slow-motion robot battle in their future.<\/p>\n

I say slow motion because, I mean, look at this thing. He’s getting more hand holding help than grandpa at the retirement home. Hell, even grandpa doesn’t need someone fiddling with an original PlayStation controller and a UI to get him to perform basic tasks. Like turning at the waist (see video).<\/p>\n

Geezer speed aside, it’s the musculature that’s the takeaway here. Modeled after human muscles, bones, tendons and ligaments, the system is incredibly flexible for a robot, and its 60 degrees of motion bests the aforementioned Asimo by a good 26 degrees. It’s also lighter than your traditional humanoid robot, which designers content will make it more friendly when humans have to interact with it.<\/p>\n