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Japan's Stupidest Robot
     


The winner of the 2008 title for Stupidest Robot in Japan is in. The
University of Tokyo's YKRN robot has won the BakaRobo (Stupid Robot) competition in
Japan, making it officially the stupidest, most useless robot in Japan and
perhaps the world. YKRN is a robot with face recognition. It likes some
face and dislikes others for reasons that are not entirely clear. Each
year the Baka Robo
folks attempt to find
frivolous robots that have "no useful function in society". The 2008
event included dancing trash can robots and other strange robotic
creations. Read on to see video of the equally strange winner of last
year's competition, Kintore-Z, a malfunctioning exercise robot.
   

http://robots.net/article/2733.html