One would assume Japan's impressive array of supertech humanoid robots would swarm the inspired-by-Fukushima DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), but Tokyo University spin-off SCHAFT Robotics is it. DARPA's militariness and Japan's Peace Constitution complicate. Oh, and way-overblown gee-whiz coverage of the DRC isn't helping.
Akihabara News , Japanese Robots: On DARPA, SCHAFT, and the Peace Constitution (and bad reporting), Japanese Robots: On DARPA, SCHAFT, and the Peace Constitution (and bad reporting)
