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The Annual Stupid Robot Contest in (Where Else?) Japan

By Alex in Pictures, Science & Tech on Apr 26, 2008 at 11:27 am


Gotta love Japan! Every year, Maiwa Electronics hosts The Stupid Robot Contest to determine whose robot is the silliest.

The contest rules are simple (and brilliant!):

1. It must be mechanical
2. It must be completely useless from a societal point of view
3. It must make people laugh

From Tokyomango:

Pictured above is Papa Robopucho, a disfigured little box bot that plays the red-flag-white-flag game by himself, and then occasionally topples over and cries for help.

Some of the other contestants last year were a chorus of pregnant wife robots, a child robot that did push-ups, and and a "moe" robot dressed like a maid from a maid cafe.

Link | Bacarobo (official website, in Japanese)


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  1. bean
    Apr 26th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    2. It must be completely useless from a societal point of view

    Isn't that nearly every robot in Japan?

  2. Sheldon
    Apr 26th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Hahaha bean, I totally agree.

  3. fsmarch
    Apr 26th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    Was that stupid robot, or stupid politician?

  4. Alannah
    Apr 26th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    Is this where the device that's only purpose was to make the hand shut itself off (I think it's name was "Don't bother me") came from?

  5. inkedgal
    Apr 27th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    i've got to move to japan.

  6. Thomas
    Apr 27th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    Hahaha... someone made a robotard.

  7. SenorMysterioso
    Apr 27th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    Yeah I think the dont bother me bot would have shined in this event

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