I, Robot Maker

posted by  Yubi | 8 years, 5 months ago

One of the reasons that people visit Akihabara for is to by Robot Parts.

FEW WOULD DISAGREE THAT Japan is ground zero for robotics. But what's really cool is not Sony's off-the-shelf mechanical mutts, academe's lab-bound androids, or industry's robot arms, but an emerging, grassroots-level robot-making craze. Last year, some 7,000 original robots competed at 50 to 60 robocons (robot contests) nationwide, with the human competitors making up the teams numbering between 20,000 and 30,000.

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