• Video: Meet Weird Bipedal Robot ZIN

    Serkan Toto

    Dr. Serkan Toto is an independent consultant and advisor focusing on Japan’s web, mobile and social gaming industries. Based in Tokyo, he works together with financial institutions and startups worldwide. Serkan has been the Japan contributor for TechCrunch.com since 2008. He is sept-lingual, holds an MBA and is a PhD in economics. → Learn More

    Friday, August 27th, 2010

    We’ve shown you quite a few weird robots over the past years, and now we have one more. Meet ZIN [JP], a model developed at Gifu National College of Technology in Japan. I don’t know why exactly they built the robot this way, but it’s funny to look at, especially on video (see below).

    The 11 students behind ZIN say their goal was to create a robot that can walk like a human being and that’s able to mimic the movements of human operators. For that, ZIN uses just one motor that actuates both legs.

    Watch ZIN in action in the video embedded below:

    Via Plastic Pals

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