Tmsuk Kiyomori
Kiyomori was a humanoid in samurai armour built by Tmsuk and Waseda's Takanishi lab on the WL-16 parallel-link walking legs, shown in 2005 and 2006.
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How the score is built
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- Status
- Retired
- Category
- historic
- First revealed
- December 2005
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 160 cm
- Weight
- 111 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric, parallel-link legs (Waseda WL-16 design)
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- yes
Where it stands
Samurai-armoured walking humanoid built with Waseda University and shown in 2005.
What stands out
- Samurai-armoured humanoid from Tmsuk and Waseda
Autonomy, observed
Walked at a Shinto shrine visit in Kyoto in 2006.
Remotely controlled.
Price and volume
Not for sale.
Sources
- 01Tmsuk official siteTmsuk
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