This charming, dysfunctional robot won Maywa Denki's Baca Robo contest in 2007, and it's probably because he reminds us of ourselves in more than one way—it looks like it's in excruciating pain as it does push-ups, and after a while, it literally falls ot pieces.
The Baca Robo contest is an annual competition in which fun-loving geeks make robots that don't serve any utilitarian function except to amuse, amaze, and entertain. The push-up robot's sensibility is very Japanese, I think—it's funny because his sole function as a robot is to do push-ups, yet he gets tired and falls to pieces if he does too many.
via Pink Tentacle
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