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“Team OSAKA”, is Dream Team established to participate in RoboCup Japan Open 2004 Osaka and is categorized as a company group organized by Osaka University (Ishiguro Laboratory), Systec Akazawa, Vstone and Robo Garage. Because of its high level of technology along with excellent novelty and originality, this company group had been elected to Dream Team out of fourteen business organizations, three universities and one NPO applicants, and then spent fifteen million yen countertargeting to develop and produce robots through collaboration between industry, educational institutions and the administration.The result is this autonomous bipedal walking humanoid soccer contest robot, VisiON, completed with getting expectation and attention. The exterior design of ”VisiON”, Dream Team’s (Team Osaka) robot, was made by Tomotaka Takahashi, a robot creator. Having gone through a new step, from controlled type robots that merely follow human’s orders to autonomous type robots, this robot was now in the final stage for Robo Cup.Unlike Controlled type robots, autonomous robots require advanced information processing where they make an own decision for its movement based on information provided by a censor.Its actions seem to be less active than before but its percentage completion is steadily making a leap.VisiON is expected to play well in RoboCup Japan Osaka 2004 and in the next year’s RoboCup World Cup in Osaka; therefore, we would like to see VisiON’s further success. [[ VisiON ]] general description
[[ VisiON ]] the origin of the name and process of the birth “VisiON” is coinage with the origin in English word “Vision”.Vision means sight, seeing, future and imagination.Mr. Takuro Imagawa in Osaka university, one of the development members of robot development named VisiON in the hope that one will imagine the future of autonomous bipedal walking robots with this leading edge robot whose omnidirectional sensor ensures 360-degree all round visibility instantaneously.Inherited the DNA of “OmniHead”, a robot with distinguished athletic ability and “neon”, a robot with elegant and pretty form, equipped with omnidirectional vision and advanced brain (CPU board), VisiOn was born, carrying Osaka’s dream.
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