Robo Catcher

Robotics startup MechaTrax wants to put its small humanoid robots into the arcade machines. In Japan, an arcade game called UFO Catcher is very popular. Whereas with UFO Catcher you try to pick up a prize - such as a stuffed animal - with a crane, you will manipulate a robot with the proposed new Robo Catcher. Here is a link to a video that shows how it works. Quite a number of Japanese startups have come out with humanoid robots in the past few years and most are still trying to figure out how to make money with them. MechaTrax is betting on the arcade business.