Researchers at the University of Tokyo are taking bio-inspired robots to new heights with Kenshiro, their new human-like musculoskeletal robot revealed at the Humanoids conference this month. They have added more muscles and more motors to their Kojiro robot from 2010, making Kenshiro’s underlying structure the closest to a human’s form so far. See the new body in the picture above.
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There are all sort of superheroes all around the world, but there’s no superhero like the one in Japan and I have to give them credit for creativity. The Green Onion Man, created by the city government of Yonago (米子市) in Totori (鳥取県), in chapter 4 the green onion man is facing a new challenge !! Can the Green Onion Man save all the nerds in Japan ?!?! watch the video and find out …. source:Blog-Bu
other works of 山中学(MANABU YAMANAKA)
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“Japan’s Forgotten Ghetto” a black and white photograph series by American photographer Andrew Houston .
“Rapid economic growth in post-war Japan brought on a construction boom, and with it a huge demand for day laborers, who came from around the country to recruitment sites such as Osaka’s Kamagasaki. As Japan grew, so did the population of these “labor towns”, which by the 1970′s were inhabited almost entirely by single dwellers living in flophouses and ramshackle hotels. When Japan’s economic bubble burst in 1991, these areas were the first to feel the shock. Today, the “labor towns” of the postwar era have become “welfare towns.” Thirty percent of the population of Kamagasaki is homeless, with many more one step away as they struggle to make ends meet in the midst of economic stagnation.”
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Oil Painting by Japanese chef and tattoo artist Fumihiro Kato. He claim that this is his own original painting technique ,which has never been used by any other artist.
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Oh shoot, it’s starting to rain. I look into my bag. Nothing there but that fresh head of lettuce I always carry around. Oh, but wait! It’s not lettuce. It’s an umbrella!
That’s the type of scenario I imagine would happen if I had this Vegetabrella (4,725 yen) designed by Yurie Mano for h concept.
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