Robovie Rescues Little Wooden Doll From Obstacle Course, Asks Why

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 5 of November , 2009 at 2:44 am

If you can’t justify buying yourself a humanoid robot to play with, ask yourself this question: what would you do if a little wooden doll was stuck at the end of an obstacle course? Huh? Yeah, that’s right, you’d just stare helplessly as it continued to be little and wooden. If you had a humanoid robot like a Robovie-PC, though, you could send it in to rescue the little wooden doll, earning its undying little wooden gratitude:

This is not at all the motivation for participants to build humanoid robots and send them in after little wooden dolls as part of a rescue robot contest in Japan. The remote controlled bots had to contend with barriers and blocks and a time limit, but after rescuing the doll, it was theirs to do with as they wished.

Don’t ask.

[ Rescue Robot Contest (Translated) ] VIA [ Plastic Pals ] VIA [ Engadget ]

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