Japanese Researchers Create Skiing Robot

An anonymous reader writes "In a bid to better understand the art of an effective ski turn researchers have recently built a robot to simulate the exact movements of a skier. The team of researchers from Kanazawa University in Japan built the ski robot to investigate the existing movements of skier's turns and see if there is any room for improvement on current techniques."

It's Obligitory

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our new skiing Robot Overlords.

Their defense force looks silly wearing snowshoes

[RuBLed]

It's not silly if your capital city is getting attacked by different monstrosities every week.

Room for improvement

[seeker_1us]

Hmmm how can we improve a Japaneese robot? It can transform into a jet fighter. It should have lots of weapons, with an activation system keyed to voice recognition so that the pilot has to needlessly scream out their name every single time they are triggered. It needs a theme song sung by a japanese dude with a rich baritone voice and then for some reason lots of little children backing him up.

Crackers, Grommit! We've forgotten the crackers!

[mccalli]

A skiing robot eh? And there's massively renewed interest in missions to the moon all of a sudden too. Hmmm...

If it's coin-operated, looks like and oven and is rusty, then run like hell.

Cheers,
Ian

... prone to falling over ...

[SimonInOz]

From the FA ... a version of the robot with the correct human ratio was very prone to falling over

I have just the same problem.

Re:Crackers, Grommit! We've forgotten the crackers

[PrayingWolf]

In other news: Cheese syndicates scrambling to build armies of skiing robots for conquering the moon, which, as everybody knows, is made of cheese!

Snowboarding

[wjousts]

They had originally built a snowboarding robot, but it was too busy smoking pot for them to do any actual research.