Videos: Two Super-Quick Robot Sumo Duels

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

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010


Japan loves robots, and Japan loves sumo. So what would be more obvious than robot sumo? The so-called FSI Japan Robot-Sumo Tournament recently took place in the Ryogoku hall in Tokyo (where the real sumo wrestlers have their tournaments, too, by the way) – and we have two videos from the finals.

There were two kinds of robots battling it out, autonomous and radio-controlled models. In total, 102 robots were registered for the tournament (which took place earlier this week) this time.

Here is the final bout in the autonomous robot class:

Final battle in the RC type class:

Via Robonable [JP]

blog comments powered by Disqus