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Thunderbolt Robot Unique Walking Gait

Yoshihiro Shibata’s Thunderbolt humanoid robot is in a class almost by itself. The robots hip/leg design was based on an original concept developed by Koichi Yoshimura, one of the early ROBO-ONE champions, but has been refined extensively over the years by Shibata. Shibata applies his own unique take on the ‘scientific method’ carefully considering each aspect of the robots walking gait. Small, incremental changes are made, and the results are evaluated to see if they bring him closer to the goal, or further away. Unlike many ROBO-ONE humanoid builders who focus on designing a robot that will win the competition even if that makes them less humanoid, Shibata goes out of his way to imbue Thunderbolt with a walking gait that is as human-like as possible. The result is a robot that can not only walk, but one that actually walks, and struts, with style and swagger. This gives Thunderbolt real personality and feeling, a cute personality that immediately bonds with the audience. Shibata loves seeing the smiles and laughs that immediately blossom on children and adults faces when they see Thunderbolt perform. Designed to incorporate 23 degrees of freedom, Thunderbolt’s hip/leg structure enables it to rotate each leg at the hip independently allowing it to put one foot in front of the other. This flexibility is critical in achieving some of the world-class walking gaits developed by Shibata. And, Thunderbolt can do much more than just walking. He plays robot soccer, gives energetic High-Five’s, running robot endurance marathons, jumps rope, wins at Extreme Mech Warfare equipped with real rockets, and often competes in Robot Pro Wrestling.