Presented an idea to move an 18-meter life-size Gundam!　Gundam GLOBAL CHALLENGE" 1st round presentation report

Gundam GLOBAL CHALLENGE" presentation was held on October 26th in Akihabara, Tokyo.

→ Sotsu/Sunrise is seeking ideas from all over the world to move an 18-meter life-size Gundam! Completion/unveiling is scheduled for 2019.

Gundam GLOBAL CHALLENGE" is a project by Gundam GLOBAL CHALLENGE, a general incorporated association established by Sotsu and Sunrise, to create a new life-size Gundam to follow the life-size Gundam standing statue in Odaiba for the 40th anniversary (2019). Under the theme of "Challenge to Dream, Gundam Moves, World Moves," cutting-edge technologies and ideas will be gathered from all over the world, with the aim of "moving an 18-meter life-size Gundam.

In this presentation, the winning ideas in the Real Entertainment Division (ideas that physically move the Gundam) and the Virtual Entertainment Division (ideas that move the Gundam using augmented reality), which have been solicited since July 2014, were revealed. In the Real Entertainment category, the four winners were Yuya Kaneko (Doctoral Program in Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Min-Sun Chen (Adjunct Associate Professor, National Taiwan University), Yoshimitsu Kihara (President, RoboFuture Corporation), and Kei Okada (Information Systems Engineering Laboratory, University of Tokyo). There were no winners in the Virtual Entertainment category.

Yuya Kaneko proposed the idea of making Gundam and Zaku wrestle to make them quadrupedal and stable, Min-Sun Cheng proposed an internal mechanism for robots to walk like humans, Yoshimitsu Kihara proposed a system to supply external power to Gundam's independent walk, and Toshi Okada proposed a system to provide power to Gundam's independent walk. Toshi Okada received the award for his proposal to develop an open platform that would allow young people around the world to freely participate in robot development.

Guest presenter SUGIZO (LUNA SEA, X JAPAN) handed the award winners a certificate and a catalog of 500,000 yen, after which film director Katsuyuki Motohiro presented a "reference video for the movement of the Gundam," which he created based on the winning idea. Below are his comments. (* Go to the next page)

The results of the first round of entries and details of the winning ideas will be posted on the official website. In addition, the second round of open innovation and new ideas for the first round of award-winning ideas will be accepted.