Fight Revolution – The Interactive Robot Asking for Punishment

If you’re into impact sports as a means of getting fit and you’re still using a traditional punch bag for training then this interactive Fight Revolution Robot is sure to get your pulses racing as, unlike punch bags, this decidedly masochistic robot will offer you a series of routines in its bid to receive the maximum in punishment all in the name of exercise.

The brainchild of Pablo Jiang – a 22 year old designer from China – the Fight Revolution Concept Fight Robot uses music and light to offer a series of workout routines via a number of hot zones placed strategically across the robot’s body which light up as targets for your aggression in randomised sequences, with the robot timing your reactions and the power of your impacts accordingly.

According to the designer, the flight robot – which is a concept work at the time of writing – is even capable of a self-defence mode where the device will offer a series of moves designed to make targeted impacts harder to achieve, though its far from apparent quite how this will work in practice.

The device is inspired by the Mu Ren Zhuang, a device designed to assist with practising Chinese Kongfu (or ‘Wing Chun Kuen’) fused with the designer’s experience of the dancing based reaction game Konomi in a bid to not only engage the user but to offer a stricter regime of training with an element of interactivity.

As intriguing as this concept is, we are unable to ascertain at the point of writing what materials the designer envisages the robot to be manufactured from and quite how the device, in its present form (with such a notably small base), will remain upright when on the receiving end of particularly firm blows – the degree of weighting required with such a small base would have to be immense. As a concept, however, we are blown away by this device and we don’t doubt that it would prove to be extremely popular should it ever make the traumatic transition from the drawing board.

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