Tomotaka Takahashi of ROBO-GARAGE is currently the world record holder for his amazing feat at the famous Le Mans race track. Takashashi was able to get his mechanical invention, a cute little robot named EVOLTA, to run for 24 hours on the race track. The objective of that feat was to create a robot that has the greatest endurance. Now, Takahashi wants to tackle the feat of the highest jump by a machine. Introducing ROPID (a mash up of robot and rapid). This 15 inch robot has the ability to jump 3 inches into the air. Very cool ability for a real robot, but pretty lame compared to a fictional robot that have machine guns and stuff… Back to the story. Just like the words that made up his name, ROPID is able to run and turn in rapid motion. Another cool feature about ROPID is that he (or she) is enabled with a Raytron’s BSRM01-01E voice recognition chip that allows the user to use voice commands to control ROPID. ROPID is currently able to recognize 8 words, but based on the video, Takahashi still needs to fix some of the kinks. Regardless, Takahasi is making great strides to the day where robots will enslave humankind. Cheers! (I think all robots will enslave humans sooner or later)

Hit the jump to see ROPID in action!

[technabob x plasticpal]