Oct 27, 2006 10:08 AM

Robot Gymnastics

JR Robotics demonstrated several new humanoid robots at the All Japan PlaModel/RadiCon Show in Chiba this week. There’s a cool video of it here.

JR Robotics demonstrated several new humanoid robots at the All Japan PlaModel/RadiCon Show in Chiba this week. There's a cool video of it here.

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