The "KumoTek-X" (KT-X) bipedal robot is the latest robot to emerge from the creative labs of KumoTek Robotics and Vstone Corporation. The robot was designed to offer an entertaining, low-cost alternative to high-end robotics, while stylishly combining the latest in sleek design and cutting-edge robotics engineering.
Much like its Vstone counterpart Robovie-X, the KT-X measures 13.5 inches tall. It comes completely loaded with action with over 75 reprogrammed motions and weighs 2.9lbs.
Unlike the robots in Hollywood movies, who are most of the time the bad-guys, the bipedals in the KT series are here for a good cause. The series is a good-guys-gang of KumoTek’s Robot P.E.T.S. (Robots Promoting Education Through Science) educational system, imparting knowledge to the kids eternally stuck to their video-games. Now with a life-size robot right in your house, who wouldn’t like to learn? What if it just gets angry and gives an electrical shock!? Well, but that is unlikely to happen as the robot can be controlled with a standard PS2 wireless controller.
This amazing robot is capable walking, running, somersaulting and standing up from a face-up or face-down lying position. It can even be programmed to pull itself up autonomously after it has fallen over.
It stands 13 inches tall, has 17 servo actuated joints (i.e., 17 degrees of freedom), a powerful 60MHz HV processor with 512kB ROM / 64kB RAM and comes fully loaded with over 75 preprogrammed motions.
The KT-X currently comes in 3 configurations:
KT-X Lite: 13 motors
KT-X: 17 motors
KT-X Gladiator: (w/ rotating hips and torso): 20 motors 

Saturday, May 31, 2008
KumoTek-X Robotics