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April 14, 2008

The Annual Stupid Robot Contest

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The Stupid Robot Contest is an annual show held by Meiwa Electronics to determine whose robot is the silliest. There are just three criteria that a robot must meet in order to be entered in this contest:

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

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.

Bacarobo.com
via Impress Watch (Japanese)





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OMG, that is the coolest thing ever!

I am not being sarcastic.

I am new here.
Is this still going on?
If so, for how long?
Is there some"where" you have to enter these?

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