Here at Hackaday, we may be somewhat divided in our opinions of Anime and Manga. We were all pretty impressed by this robot build(translated) though. We’re not totally clear on who actually did this build, but we can see a few pictures and a video on the site. The original doll looks to be roughly 3 or 4 inches tall, judging by the Eeepc keyboard that it is standing on. We counted 7 servos stuffed into this thing with a controller board hiding in the back of its hair. You’ll have to watch the video to see most of the details. It looks like there is one in the head, one in each shoulder, both hip joints, and both feet. Though the motion at the end of the video is limited, we still think it is impressive. Creepy, but impressive.
note: the video is not embedded in the translated version. Just go to the non translated to watch it.
[thanks Francesco]
The coffee robot is impressive (same person I think) plus it has video!
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.hobbymedia.it/23099/hoihoi-san-modellismo-e-robotica-in-giappone&sl=it&tl=en
That is some incredible work, all things considered.
Well done!
Ahaha, awesomely kawaii hack for a Friday, thanks for sharing :)
To save anybody else the same confusion, the video is not embedded on the Google-translated site.
Nice, saw this on Nicovideo a while ago.
should have used a gundam model or something- anything besides dolls. robots are cool. dolls are not. why would anyone want to uncool a robot like that.
wait: I agree. However, how many cool looking robots would you be willing to sacrifice for the sake of the project?
@walt
are you a 12 year old boy? i guess so!
awesome! now let’s make sumomo!
The music in the video creeps me out more than the doll.
Am I the only one who instantly thought a robot realdoll would be cool?
@robotlove
http://zapinc.deviantart.com/art/Do-not-fist-Android-girls-53162365
btw, walt, you forget 1 thing, all people in japan are pedophiles and are obsessed with little girls
so the dolls arnt little girls play things for them
to the average japanese male, a doll is a intricate, detailed, undressable, sex object with real naughty features, like servos!
Funnily enough ‘HoiHoi-san’ is, in the original manga, a tiny robot*. So, this is a robot model modified from a model of a robot. Very impressive microservo work, the creator’s blog is here: http://makosky.blog9.fc2.com/
*meant for pest control after overuse of pesticides has made common pests resistant to them. Because all problems can be solved with sufficient application of robots. The whole concept is rather humorous, with competing companies programming their robots to covertly kill off other companies robots if used in the same household. The company that distributed the translated book appears to have gone under (or their website is just down), but you can probably still find it on Amazon or the like. Look for “Ichigeki Sacchu HoiHoi san”.
Oh, and his latest post appears to be adding servos to the ridiculously huge new 1/48 scale RX-72.
RX-78-2, I mean. Whoops.
Ah, I know some Italian. It’s fun trying to translate on-the-fly. Now if I only knew Japanese xD
It looks cool, I want an army of thousands of those at my disposal.
@Frogz – Thanks for sharing the graphic, brilliant!
This is rpetty cool. I love the work done to fit the tiny servos. What boards did we see in the video?
This both awesome and cute at the same time.
The first thing that came to mind seeing it in action was Rozen Maiden.
I’d like have one styled like a Rozen Maiden doll or a doll styled like the ones Alice Margatroid from Touhou has.
Awful music, awful doll, but incredibly nice work.
And the high-heeled bikini babe presenting Extreme RC cars is hot.
The anime that this came from:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4507
Nice =) also great sites’ look =)