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| Dec 22nd 2012 | BLACK TIGER L44 joined the 7th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle RaceThe 7th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race took place at ROBOSPOT in Akihabara, Tokyo on Dec 22, 2012. Eight multi-legged robots joined the race. Robot joined were Garutan (Kumama), Metallic Vaio 2012 (Morinaga), Milfy (Matsuo), BLACK TIGER L44 (IKETOMU), WaniWani (KENTA), Hakurou (HERO@Musen-ken), Echo (Yuya) and Dark Liger (Moriken). A new additional attraction was added in the 7th KONDO LAND because 3 robots cleared 6 attractions in the 6th KONDO LAND. The 7th attraction is stairs with gate on the last stair. The gate opens for 15 seconds by pushing the botton in the goal floor as following the picture.  Robot has to go up staris within 15 seconds. Metallic Bio 2012 tried to going up the stars, however it was very hard to go up the stairs. Each robot had twice real time record race. In the 7th KONDO LAND Obstacle Race, no robots clear the course within 3 minutes and no robots charenged the 7th attractions. The 1st place was Garutan, the 2nd place was WaniWani. The MVP was also Garutan custom-built by Kumama-san and Kupapa-san. BLACK TIGER L44 2nd Run BLACK TIGER L44 3rd Run（追加試走） |
| Nov 3rd 2012 | BLACK TIGER NEO joined Dekinnoka!11, Robot Pro-Wrestling MatchRobot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!11`, sponsored by Omata-san took place in Soka City on Nov 3, 2012 during Soka Fusasara Festival 2012.Dekinnoka!11 was held as Tenkaneji Budokai 3rd (Best Martial Arts Screw Tournament On Earth 2nd). My custom-built robot `BLACK TIGER NEO` also joined as `Nagare-BLACKTIGER`.  Dekinnoka!11 was opened by Japanese Dancing of Tokotoko-maru and Line Dancing of Meters, mini Metallic Fighters was also carried out. Opening match, Metallic Fighter vs Haruo, flying robot was carried out. The flying robot was custom-built by Amino-san. The 3rd Match: Tenkaneji Budokai the 1st stage: Nagare-BLACKTIGER vs Zerfar The 7th Match: Robot Pro-Wrestling Handicap Match: Kyonkyonkamen vs Ryuketsu 48 The 8th Match: Tenkaneji Budokai Final: Winner of the 5th Match vs Winner of the 6th Match as Newtrino vs Nagare-Gold. The winner was Nagare-Gold and got all eight screws. Announcement of the wish by Nagare-Gold, the winner of Tenkaneji Budokai: The winner Nagare-Gold asked Nejiron that he could have a match with Saaga, which is in Puerto Rico for his pro-wrestling training. Nejiron answered that his wish would be fulfilled at once.   Final Match: Saaga vs Nagare-Gold |
| Sep 2nd 2012 | BLACK TIGER NEO joined the 21st ROBO-ONE Robot FightROBO-ONE 21st sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo on Sep 1st and 2nd, 2012. ROBO-ONE Light 5th took place on Sep 1st, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Sep 1st and the main event ROBO-ONE 21st Tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Sep 2nd. ROBO-ONE 21st was held as the tournament with 48 robots which were winners of the local robot competitions, the 5th light and upper 46 place robots in the preliminary competition, 4.5 m Footrace. Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 30 seconds. Each robot time record taken 4.5 m walk, or the distance from start point if robot could not walk within 30 seconds, or robot fell down from the course was recorded. Each robot tried just one time Footrace. The 4.5 m course seemed to be not flat in some parts and the center of the course was pasted sponsor advertise label. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 4.5 m course for most of robots. A lot of robots ran out of the course including Frosty, which seemed to be the fastest robot. The result is here. The 1st place was automo 05(Go-Wan) 7.78 seconds by holypong-san, the 2nd place was Garoo 11.21 by Kumama-san, the 3rd place was Chromkid 11.35 by Kupapa-san, the 4th place was Tokotoko-maru 11.46 by Amino-san, the 5th place was Gergoil-mini 11.59 by Yoshida-san, the 6th place was Metallic Fighter 11.96 by Morinaga-san, the 7th place was Frog Food 13.06 by Shibata-san the 8th place was Aerobattler 13.93, the 9th was Corteju-Miharusu 15.71 and BLACK TIGER NEO, my robot was the 10th place, 15.72 seconds. Just 40 robots could reach the goal within 30 seconds. Upper 10 robots were 15 seconds, the 11th to 16th robots were 20 seconds, 17th to 40th were 30 seconds. BLACK TIGER NEO fought with Difighant in the 2nd stage. BT-NEO was controled motions of moving and attacking by manual and also controled motion of attacking by autonomous. However, BT-NEO could not win the match. |
| July 21st 2012 | BLACK TIGER L44 joined the 6th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle RaceThe 6th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race took place at ROBOSPOT in Akihabara, Tokyo on July 21, 2012. Ten multi-legged robots, such as 4-legged and 6-legged robot joined the race. Robot joined were Metallic Vaio 2012 (Team Morinaga), WaniWani (KENTA), Garutan (Kumama), Tama-Kagi-Machine (Tma-Kagakugijutsu High School Robot Club), Dark Liger (Moriken), TicTac6.5 (Amino), Milfy (Matsuo), Soen type.L01 (HERO@Musen-ken), Miwakuno-Takyaku-kun (Takahashi) and BLACK TIGER L44 (IKETOMU). Each robot had twice real time record race. In the 6th KONDO LAND Obstacle Race, Metallic Vaio 2012, Dark Liger and BLACK TIGER L44 could clear the course within 3 minutes. The 1st place was BLACK TIGER L44 which cleared 2 minutes and 15 seconds. The 2nd place was Metallic Vaio 2012 cleared 2 minutes and 17 seconds and the 3rd place was Dark Liger cleared 2 minutes and 37 seconds. The MVP was Metallic Vaio 2012 custom-built by Morinaga-san for unique 18 axes robot with 2 long arms or legs. The result was described here BLACK TIGER L44 2nd Run  |
| June 24th 2012 | BLACK TIGER L45 joined the 12th Robot Survival Game The 12th Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on June. 24, 2012. Eight robots joined the 12th Survival Game were KIKUCHI-1gou (left), Aigis (back left), Denryu (back center), CR-Cannon (CR-Cannon), Stallone (front left), Yabusame (front center left), BLACK TIGER L45 (front center right) and Zerotank (front right). Eight robots joined the 12th Survival Game were divided into two teams. Gons-san Team members were Denryu (Gons), BLACK TIGER L45 (IKETOMU) and Zerotank (Ninagawa). Noborizaka-san Team were Stallone (Noborizaka), CR-Cannon (Yoshida), KIKUCHI 1-gou (TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE Student Team), Yabusame (Mota) and Aigis (Tanaka). All robot were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle). Robot Survival Games such as Combat Shooting, Fox Hunting, Extermination Battle, Flag Battle, Best One vs Others and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in the 12th Robot Survival Game. The details were also described in Sanzai-san's Blog (in Japanese). Fox Hunting 1: Fox robot starts to run away. Hunter robot runs after Fox robot and hits it. Hunter robot has to hit down Fox robot within 3 minutes. Fox robot do not shoot Hunter robot for 2 minutes and 30 seconds from start time and can shoot Hunter robot for last 30 seconds. Hunter robot was BLACK TIGER L45 and Fox robot was Stallone. The game ended in a draw. Extermination Battle 1 (Destroy the enemy completely): Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team (Stallone, CR-Cannon, KIKUCHI-1gou) vs Gons Team (Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank). Winner was Gons Team. Extermination Battle 2 (Destroy the enemy completely): Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team (Stallone, Yoshida, Aigis) vs Gons Team (Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank). Winner was Noborizaka-san Team. Flag Battle: 1 Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team (Stallone, Yoshida, KIKUCHI-1gou) vs Gons Team (Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank). The game ended in a draw. Flag Battle 2: Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team (Stallone, CR-Cannon, Kikuchi-1gou) vs Gons Team (Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank). Winner was Gons Team. Special Battle, the Best One Robot, Denryu (Gons) vs Other all Robot: Just Denryu (Gons) had to fight against other all robots. Because Denryu with high speed mobile was the strongest robot in the all robots joined. Using of full field and fighting time was 5 minutes. The Best 1 robot is Denryu vs Others as Stallone, CR-Cannon, KIKUCHI-1gou, BLACK TIGER L45 and Zerotank. Denryu was shot by BLACK TIGER L45. Battle Royal (Rumble Battle 1) : All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes is winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system. Joined robots were Stallone, CR-Cannon, KIKUCHI-1gou, Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank and Yabusame. The winner was Denryu. Battle Royal (Rumble Battle 2) : All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes is winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system. Joined robots were Stallone, CR-Cannon, Kikuchi-1gou, Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Zerotank and Yabusame. The winner was Denryu. |
| Apr 29th 2012 | BLACK TIGER L45 joined the 11th Robot Survival Game The 11th Robot Survival Game took place at AKIBA CULTRES ZONE, Tokyo on Apr. 29, 2012. Seven robots joined the 11th Survival Game were Gonbei Mk-U(front left), Aigis (front center), Yabusame (front right), CR CANNON (back left), BLACK TIGER L45 (back center left), Stallone (back center right) and Denryu (back right).  Joined 7 robot were divided into two teams. Gons-san Team members were Denryu (Gons), BLACK TIGER L45 (IKETOMU) and CR CANNON (Yoshida). Noborizaka-san Team were Stallone (Noborizaka), Yabusame (mota), Gonbei Mk-U(B-saku) and Aisgis (Tanaka). One team was consisted with 3 robots, one of three robots was controlled without camera system and laser sighting system, other 2 robots were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle). Battle Royal was carried out without camera system. Extermination Battle, Flag Battle, Fox Hunting and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out. Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Winner was Gons Team. Extermination Battle B (Destroy the enemy completely) Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Winner was Gons Team. Extermination Battle C (Destroy the enemy completely): Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Winner was Gons Team. Flag Battle A: Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team. Flag Battle B: Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team. Fox Hunting: Fox robot starts to run away. Hunter robot runs after Fox robot and hits it. Hunter robot has to hit down Fox robot within 5 minutes. Fox robot was CR CANNON and Hunter robot were other all robots. Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) : All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes is winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system. |
| Mar 24th-25th 2012 | BLACK TIGER NEO joined ROBO-ONE 20thROBO-ONE 20th sponsored by ROBO-ONE Committee, took place at Institute of Industrial Promotion Kawasaki Hall in Kawasaki City on Mar 24-25th, 2012. In ROBO-ONE 20th, ROBO-ONE Light 4th took place on Mar 24th, 9 m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) on Mar 24th and the main event ROBO-ONE 20th tournament (Light Class, Under 3kg) took place on Mar 25th. ROBO-ONE 20th was held as the tournament with 50 robots which were winners of the local robot competitions and upper place robots in the preliminary competition, 9 m Footrace. Nine meters Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 48 robots and to decide the tournament order. Seventy-three robots including robots which had the right to join the ROBO-ONE 20th joined the 9 m Footrace. Robots had to walk 9 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute. Each robot tried just one time Footrace. Each robot time taken 9 m walk, or the distance from start point if robot could not walk within 1 minute, or robot fell down from the course was recorded. The 9 m course seemed to be not flat in some parts and the center of the course was pasted sponsor advertise label. Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 9 m course for most of robots. A lot of robots ran out of the course including Frosty, which seemed to be the fastest robot. The 1st place was Garoo by Kumama-san, 13.31 seconds, the 2nd place was YOGOROZA by DOUBT-san, 14.12 seconds, the 3rd place was automo 05(Go-Wan) by holypong-san, 14.81 seconds, the 4th place was Mongirouni by GR2-san, 15.68 seconds, the 5th place was HAUSER by Craftman-san, 16.25. Just 34 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 5 robots were 10 seconds, the 6th to 10th place robots were 20 seconds, 11th to 23rd were 30 seconds, 24th to 31st were 40 seconds and 32rd to 34th were 50 seconds. BLACK TIGER NEO was the 11th place, 30.65 seconds. ROBO-ONE 20 was held as the tournament with 50 robots which were winners of the local robot competitions and upper place 48 robots in the preliminary competition, 9 m Footrace. The winner was Garoo by Kumama-san, who also got a prize of 5 hundred thousand yen. The second place was Gargoil-mini by Yoshida-san. The 3rd place was Cortejyu by SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. In ROBO-ONE 20th tournament, BLACK TIGER NEO attacking motions were carried out autonomosly, on the other hand moving motions were carried out by radio controlled. |
| Mar 3rd 2012 | BLACK TIGER NEO joined the 10th KONDO BATTLEThe 10th KONDO BATTLE sponsored by KONDO KAGAKU CO., LTD took place on Mar. 3, 2012 at ROBOSPOT in Akihabara, TOKYO. The 10th KONDO BATTLE was carried out as Student Class, Open Class and Exhibition Class. Winner of Student Class and Open Class got the right to join the final tournament of the 20th ROBO-ONE in Kawasaki on Mar. 25, 2012. The main regulation following the 20th ROBO-ONE was the weight of robot, which had to be 3 kg or under 3 kg.Twenty-two robots; Student Class 9, Open Class 6 and Exhibition Class 7, joined the competition. The 10th KONDO BATTLE had 6 tournaments as Student Class Regular Tournament, Open Class Regular Tournament, Exhibition Class Regular Tournament, Student Class Back Tournament, Open Class Back Tournament and Exhibtion Class Back Tournament. Back Tournaments were held by loser of the Rugular Tournaments.  BLACK TIGER NEO has been fighting by autonomous. In th 10th KONDO BATTLE, Attacking motions of BLACK TIGER NEO were autonomous and moving motions were radio-controlled. Open Class Back Tournament Semifinal: DeKarl vs BLACK TIGER NEO. The winner was BLACK TIGER NEO. Open Class Back Tournament Final: BLACK TIGER NEO vs Chromkid. BLACK TIGER NEO lost the match. |
| Feb 26th 2012 | BLACK TIGER L45 joined the 10th Robot Survival GameThe 10th Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2012. Six robots joined the 10th Survival Game were divided into two teams, Gons-san Team and Noborizaka-san Team. Gons-san Team members were Denryu (Gons), BLACK TIGER L45 (IKETOMU) and Kani-kan (Kamiya). Noborizaka-san Team were Stallone (Noborizaka), Vanga (Igaa) and Benkei (Ohguma) . All robot were controlled by camera system in all battles except for Battle Royal (Rumble Battle).
BLACK TIGER L45 (IKETOMU)
 Flag Battle: 1 Each team builds fortress and set a flag in each territory. Each team fights to shoot down flag in the enemy territory. The winner is the team shot down the enemy flag within 5 minutes or the team which has larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes in the case of each flag does not shoot down within 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team (Stallone, Vanga, Benkei) vs Gons Team (Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Kani-kan). Winner was Gons Team. Extermination Battle 3 (Destroy the enemy completely) Each team fights to destroy the enemy completely within 5 minutes; Winner team is having larger number of survival robot after 5 minutes. Noborizasa-san Team (Stallone, Vanga, Benkei) vs Gons Team (Denryu, BLACK TIGER L45, Kani-kan). Winner was Gons Team. Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) All robots fight each other and just one robot survival in 5 minutes is winner. Rumble fight was carried out without using camera system. Survival Robots were Denryu with no shells and BLACK TIGER L45 with shells. The winner was BLACKTIGER L45. |
| Jan 29th 2012 | BLACK TIGER β joined ROBOT ATHLETE CUP 2012 JAN in HAMAGIN SPACE SCIENCE CENTERROBOT ATHLETE CUP 2012 JAN in HAMAGIN SPACE SCIENCE CENTER took place in Yokohama on Jan 29, 2012, which was sponsored by HAMAGIN SPACE SCIENCE CENTER and ROBOT ATHLETE CUP Executive Committee.The purposes of ATHLETE CUP are development of robot technology and activation of robot market by providing robot builders and students with a place for exchanging information. MANOI by KYOSHO, KHR series by KONDO KAGAKU CO., LTD. and Himejisoftworks Zero series which were on the market could join the competition. Revised these robots also could join. Twenty robots joined 5 athletic competitions which were Dancing, Free Performance, Autonomous Beach Flag, Autonomous 20 m Foot Race and Radio Controlled 5 m Foot Race. Each competition winner got prize, twenty thousands yen except for Radio Controlled 5 m Foot Race (as Exhibition Race). Competitions were carried out on the athletic field which was 7 m length and 1.8 m width punchcarpet (needlecarpet).  BLACK TIGER β, revised KHR-1 with 10 high torque servomotors such as KRS-2350HV and KRS-4013HV, joined Radio Controlled 5 m Foot Race (as Exhibition Race) and Autonomous Beach Flag. Radio Controlled 5 m Foot Race (Exhibition competition) Four robots joined the competition. Each robot could run the 5 m course twice. The robot taken the best record was winner. The winner was BLACK TIGER β which best record time was 28.47 seconds. Dr. GIY's robot took 11.78 seconds, however he didn't have the right to get winner because of his excellent robot and skill. Video is each robot's best records of twice run.  Autonomous 5 m Beach Flag Robot Beach Flag game is similar to human's one. Two robots start from start line and push down the pole sat at a distance of 5 m. The robot push down the pole at first is winner. The pole (for beach flag) is attached with 40kHz ultra sonic wave sender. As radio control is prohibited, all robots have to move autonomously. There is no limitation concerning sensor control board and sensors. Six robots joined to the competition. BLACK TIGER βsliped down at the getting up and lost the pole. BLACK TIGER β lost the match. |
| Jan 8th 2012 | BLACK TIGER L44 joined the 5th KONDO LAND Robot Obstacle RaceThe 5th KONDO LAND Multi-Legged Robot Obstacle Race took place at BELLESALLE AKIHABARA , Tokyo on Jan 8, 2012.Nine multi-legged robots joined the race were BLACK TIGER L44, 4-legged robot by IKETOMU, Miwaku-no-Takyaku-chan, 4-legged robot by TAKAHASHI-san, Garutan, 4-legged robot by Kumama-san, Isoko-Rescue 4-legged robot by Iwakura-san, Gonbei Mk-U, 6-legged robot by Sato Robot Laboratory, Spider ML-1, 4-legged robot by Ogawa-san, Tictac6, 6-legged robot by Amino-san, Wani-Wani, 4-legged robot by KENTA-san, Griffon, 6-legged robot by Matsuo-san.  BLACK TIGER L44, 4-legged robot custom-built by IKETOMU could clear three times all attractions within 3 minutes. This video is the 1st race with no penalty points which is the best time of the 5th KONDO LAND. BLACK TIGER L44 2nd Race BLACK TIGER L44 3rd Race  |