Post by dogpolygonrt66 on May 30, 2018 21:43:48 GMT
The only media that exists on Sega's promotional robot is this flyer: www.negativeworld.org/images/content/414/sega-chan.jpg (sorry for the semi-misleading title, it's all I can fit due to the character limit)
The Sega Chan robot would have been an incredibly advanced robot, capable of moving around autonomously through the use of touch sensors and "danger prevention sensors", presumably infrared sensors, playing pre recorded voice clips, shaking people's hands, having (probably at least 4) articulated hand joints, capable of opening up at least 45 degrees, display videos of promotional material on a 10 inch tv, serve food and drinks from a openable tray in it's torso, distribute books, and recognize voice as to be able to answer specific questions (probably related to whatever products it was programmed to sell at any specific establishment). They even claim it to be modular - "By using interchangeable attachments, SEGA CHAN can perform even more tasks..."
Most of technology presented in this ad seems outrageous and not possible for it's time, which by the flyer's copyright date may have been as early as 1982, probably not perfectly workable today either. To put this in perspective, the most comparably advanced robot at the time (that I know of) was the Hero 1 robot from Heathkit. (http://www.theoldrobots.com/hero.html) Which could barely move around by itself, and it's voice recognition capabilities were meager. But anyways, that's not the main point. It seems like this flyer is the only information at all of this behemoth, almost 5 feet tall and 419 pounds. If the poster is to be believed, this thing even had at least 1 working model, which makes it even more confusing to why there is no media on this thing other than the single promotional flyer. "SEGA CHAN has shown in tests to be an extraordinary and functional promotional centerpiece, appealing to all age groups." Due to how advanced they claimed it to have been, it seems odd that journalists were not crawling all over early SEGA to get pictures or simply even an article on this thing, but this WAS before Sega's first console, though arguably they were already famous enough from the arcade games they had made to get a simple article on this thing, as judging by the flyer they even wanted this thing in arcades.
Though, I will say the lack of media on this robot isn't the strangest thing in the world, as Nintendo's earliest game machine, a horse racer, barely has any media on it, and the first model of it to be put on auction in a long time was rusted out nearly completely.
Shoutout to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyAqn0YWMvc for me finding out about this thing.
The Sega Chan robot would have been an incredibly advanced robot, capable of moving around autonomously through the use of touch sensors and "danger prevention sensors", presumably infrared sensors, playing pre recorded voice clips, shaking people's hands, having (probably at least 4) articulated hand joints, capable of opening up at least 45 degrees, display videos of promotional material on a 10 inch tv, serve food and drinks from a openable tray in it's torso, distribute books, and recognize voice as to be able to answer specific questions (probably related to whatever products it was programmed to sell at any specific establishment). They even claim it to be modular - "By using interchangeable attachments, SEGA CHAN can perform even more tasks..."
Most of technology presented in this ad seems outrageous and not possible for it's time, which by the flyer's copyright date may have been as early as 1982, probably not perfectly workable today either. To put this in perspective, the most comparably advanced robot at the time (that I know of) was the Hero 1 robot from Heathkit. (http://www.theoldrobots.com/hero.html) Which could barely move around by itself, and it's voice recognition capabilities were meager. But anyways, that's not the main point. It seems like this flyer is the only information at all of this behemoth, almost 5 feet tall and 419 pounds. If the poster is to be believed, this thing even had at least 1 working model, which makes it even more confusing to why there is no media on this thing other than the single promotional flyer. "SEGA CHAN has shown in tests to be an extraordinary and functional promotional centerpiece, appealing to all age groups." Due to how advanced they claimed it to have been, it seems odd that journalists were not crawling all over early SEGA to get pictures or simply even an article on this thing, but this WAS before Sega's first console, though arguably they were already famous enough from the arcade games they had made to get a simple article on this thing, as judging by the flyer they even wanted this thing in arcades.
Though, I will say the lack of media on this robot isn't the strangest thing in the world, as Nintendo's earliest game machine, a horse racer, barely has any media on it, and the first model of it to be put on auction in a long time was rusted out nearly completely.
Shoutout to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyAqn0YWMvc for me finding out about this thing.
