Chile recently made history with Mr. Kondor, a bipedal robot that won a prize at the Robo-One World Championship 2023 in Japan. Created by Team 628 of Robotics Lab, it won the Innovation in Design award.
The event was held in Yokohama, Japan, bringing together theThe best exponents in the world in the martial arts discipline of bipedal robotics.
Macarena Valenzuela, co-director of Hub Innova UTEM, who worked hand in hand with Robotics Lab, explained to Bío Bío Chile the details about the creation of Mr. Kóndor.
“We take the history of this robot that emerges from the waters of Chiloé, to conceptualize and make a suit. Design professionals and even students in practice from the industrial design program participated in its realization,” said Valenzuela.
Biomaterials were used to make the suit, which gives the ecological touch to Mr. Kóndor.
“We arrived at a planter based on orange peel with 3D printed anchoring system and a poncho that simulates algae, based on chard, coffee grounds and egg shell,” says the co-director of Hub Innova at the Metropolitan Technological University (UTEM).
In 2017, the Chilean team had become the first non-Asian to participate in the Robo-One World Championship from Japan. This is the oldest bipedal robotics martial arts tournament in the industry.
At that time it was headed by Rodrigo Quevedo, director of Robotics Lab.
For the 2023 edition, together with Valenzuela they were part of Robotics Lab Team 628: Héctor Torres (co-director), Benjamín Díaz and Manuel Lara (experimentation team).
As part of development team There were Millaray Meneses and Javier Clavero (UTEM School of Design), Amanda Iriarte and Andrés Martín (Design of the University of Chile).