Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Doka Harumi
From the very specific site Biped Robot News Japan:
ROBO-ONE GATE is biped robot competition which ROBO-ONE entertainment
exclusive office manages. ROBO-ONE GATE has aimed toward the
development of the biped robot competition which it can participate
with ease even with the beginner, and the demand enlargement of
humanoid hobby robot. The 1st to 4th ROBO-ONE GATE competitions were
robot fight tournament and the 5th and 6th were changed to robot
dancing competition. The preliminary event of the 14th ROBO-ONE
tournament was Robot dancing. Robot dancing is expected to be a new
popular robot competition. … The winner of the 6th competition got the
right of joining the 17th ROBO-ONE tournament on March 21st, 2010.The
most impressed robot was Doka Harumi by Doka Project. The weight was
about 15 kg. She danced very smooth and charming as a young girl. The
champoion was `Ryuki?` by AZM LAB, danced `Joyful`Ikimonogakari.
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