J-Deite Shows Real Transformer Car/Robot

Project J-deite, a joint group of three companies, Brave Robotics, Asratec and Takara Tommy, demonstrated its transforming car-robot J-deite, though the size is 1/4 of the final version. Takara-Tommy, is a Japanese toy company known by making Transformers. According to Brave Robotics site, 1/2 scale robot is planned to be made in 2015, then 1/1… Continue reading J-Deite Shows Real Transformer Car/Robot

Robot For Smartphone Coin Pusher Games

A Twitter user @suzuki_jidouka (Suzuki is a Japanese surname, jidouka means automation) showed that he had created a robot for his little sister who wants to earn more coins on coin pusher game on smartphone. 妹から『コイン落としのゲームで効率的に稼ぎたいからスマホ画面を1秒間に2回くらい一晩中タップし続ける機械が作れないか』と,かなりヨコシマな打診あり。仕方ないので作成。子供がいるので安全性の配慮となるべくシンプルな作りに気をつけたつもり pic.twitter.com/BF1eDusFOK — 鈴木自動化 (@suzuki_jidouka) June 2, 2013 The sister asked him if she would earn points effectively by tapping… Continue reading Robot For Smartphone Coin Pusher Games

Gundam Rising Again In Tokyo Waterfront Next Spring

Life-size Gundam Statue which had over 4 million visitors only in 52 days in 2009 Summer at Odaiba, Tokyo waterfront is announced [J] to come back 2012 Spring. An imaginary CG photo provided by Bandai is here, Darwinfish205 releases a movie report that the legs are being built in front of the new location DiverCity… Continue reading Gundam Rising Again In Tokyo Waterfront Next Spring

Physical iPhone/Android Test Robot From US$70,000

Quality Commander [J] from Japan novel Corporation [J] is a gadget test automation robot which combines an industrial robot with camera and software. A blog S-max reported [J] their demo at Embedded Technology 2010 conference at Yokohama. The robot touches the device’s screen, by program and/or repeating a human’s first operation. The software will capture… Continue reading Physical iPhone/Android Test Robot From US$70,000

Avex and NTT DoCoMo Launch TV Station Exclusively For Cellphone Users

On Friday, a joint venture of the Tokyo-based emerging music company Avex Group and Japan’s largest cellphone operator NTT DoCoMo, Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc. launched a TV service called BeeTV[J], which is fully designed for cellphone handsets viewing. Unlike 1-seg TV service using a segment in terrestrial digital broadcast wave to carry visual and… Continue reading Avex and NTT DoCoMo Launch TV Station Exclusively For Cellphone Users