Robotic in Japan
20/06/2002 (21:00)

TOKYO (SuratkabarCom) - Japan will become the most sophisticated country as a robotic country in the nearest future. The technology is already there, the planning is clear, the target is set and the money also available. Practical and benefit for humanbeing, such as helping the disable person. Therefore could become a profitable business for Japan after the low and middle technology were grabbed by the other Asian nations.

Waseda University students, Hiroyuki Ishii, left, and Shuzo Isoda, demonstrate their group's humanoid robot called Ninja at the university's laboratory in Tokyo Thursday, June 13, 2002. RoboCup 2002 is expected to draw 193 robot teams from 30 countries to a stadium in Fukuoka city. (AP Photo/Tsugufumi Matsumoto) Kazuo Yoshida, professor of system design engineering at Keio University, sits in a soccer field as he supervises his students operating their wheeled soccer robots to pass the ball at his laboratory in Tokyo Wednesday, June 12, 2002. RoboCup 2002 is expected to draw 193 robot teams from 30 countries to a stadium in Fukuoka city. (AP Photo/Tsugufumi Matsumoto) A 48-centimeter (19-inch)-tall humanoid robot, operated by graduate student Masaki Ogino of Osaka University, left, kicks the ball during a press conference in Tokyo Wednesday, June 12, 2002, announcing the seven-day "RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka/Busan" robot soccer tournament in Fukuoka, western Japan. A total of 193 teams from 30 countries and regions are participating in the annual RoboCup contest that began six years ago. (AP Photo/Tsugufumi Matsumoto) Two Asimos, developed by Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co., demonstrate penalty kick at the opening day of the RoboCup 2002 in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, Wednesday, June 19, 2002. At the height of World Cup fever in Japan, a hot soccer tournament for robots kicked off with 193 robot teams from 30 countries participating. The annual event, now in its sixth year, will include a contest among humanoids for the first time. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) Singapore Polytechnic student Teo Jun Xian guards their humanoid robot "Robo Erectus" during its penalty kick in the Humanoid League of the RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka/Busan in Fukuoka, western Japan, Sunday, June 23, 2002. The league was competed by 12 teams' of humanoid robots in three events; a walking race, a penalty shoot-out and a free style performance. A total of 193 robot teams from 30 countries and regions participated in the annual robot soccer tournament. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Kazuo Yoshida, professor of system design engineering at Keio University, checks one of his wheeled soccer robots participating in the RoboCup 2002 at his laboratory in Tokyo Wednesday, June 12, 2002. RoboCup 2002 is expected to draw 193 robot teams from 30 countries to a stadium in Fukuoka city, Japan. (AP Photo/Tsugufumi Matsumoto) Hiroaki Kitano, one of the Japanese robot scientists behind RoboCup 2002, a World Cup for robots that opened June 19, 2002, in southwestern Japan, shows a humanoid robot that he and his group developed, during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, June 14, 2002. RoboCup 2002 is expected to draw 193 robot teams from 30 countries to a stadium in Fukuoka city, Japan. (AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo) The 6th Robocup Tournament (after Nagoya 1997, Paris, Stockholm, Melbourne and Seattle), but the first Humanoid Robocup Tournament, will be held in Fukuoka, June 19-25, 2002 according to Hiroaki Kitano towards the target 2050 that humanoid robot could play soccer together with humanbeing. (Photo SuratkabarCom) Japan's Osaka University students Masaki Ogino of Japan, center, and Chalodhorn Rawichote of Thailand watch their humanoid robot Senchan's penalty kick against Gifu Industries Association's goal-keeping "Nagara", left, during the Humanoid League in the RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka/Busan in Fukuoka, western Japan, Sunday, June 23, 2002. The league was competed by 12 teams' of humanoid robots in three events; a walking race, a penalty shoot-out and a free style performance. A total of 193 robot teams from 30 countries and regions participated in the annual robot soccer tournament. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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