We’re off to Tokyo University and the fantabulous robot museum today, after visiting every. robot. store. in. Akihabara. Yesterday. Oh man do we gots pics. Here’s some from a nice little gathering thrown by the wonderful Norri of GetRobo.

Here’s Mr. R with the illustrious Lem Fugitt of Robots-Dreams, enlarged because they are just so dang cute:

Here’s a lot of sushi. I thought it was pretty.

Below is the view of Akihabara from our hotel. It’s pretty much shiny crack for robot people, with all its winding alleys of obscure and whacked out electronics junk. Weird huge capacitors, strange attachments to archaic 80s video game consoles, reams and reams and reams of every gauge wire that you never knew you needed, all interspersed with capsule stores where you can get cute, adorable, well made little figurines of X-RATED HENTAI AWESOMENESS. Mr. Robotics is starting a collection, because he’s a total otaku no hentai. The drooling, it is copious, on both our parts (his is icky, though). Much of it is 24 hours as well, because why sleep when you could be PLAYING ZOMBIE KILLER VIDEO GAMES?!?!?!

The other thing which inspired lust even in the extremely jaded mind of Mr. Robotics was this little number right here:

Yes, you got that right, it’s a three-axis servomotor, for all of your three-axis servomotor needs (you know you have ‘em). It was thought up and done by some very intelligent people from Tokyo University, and not, as you would think, by some huge robotics concern.

Thethings huge robotics concerns are thinking about are things like this automatic floor cleaner, which works in total darkness to clean up around the prone bodies of unconscious slarayen after hours in large office buildings:

It is programmed to look concerned, then panicked when anything touches it; anything in this case being the small children you see on the right. The kids were extremely amused by this, and kept chasing the robot and making it more and more anxious. Robots need valium too.

More in a bit. Mr. Robotics is campaigning for breakfast.

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