Sony legged robot for RoboCup challenge

One of the ultimate dream in robotics is to create life-like robotics systems, such as humanoid robot and animal-like legged robot. We choose to build pet-type legged robot because we believe that dog-like and cat-like legged robot has major potential for future entertainment robotics markets for personal robots. However, numbers of challenges exists before any of such robot to be fielded in the real world. Robots have to be reasonably intelligent, maintains certain level of agility, and be able to engaged in some collaborative behaviors. RoboCup is an ideal challenge to foster robotics technologies for small personal and mobile robotics system. This paper, we present Sony's legged robots system which enter Robe Cup-98 Paris as a special exhibition games.