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So I’m posting from the “Internet Room” from the robotics congress in Okayama. Contrary to what I thought, Okayama is a pretty big city with more than 600.000 inhabitants - about the size of Sao Vicente, perhaps.

The congress seems to be pretty big, with people from the major universities of Japan. According to a friend of the lab, it is also an “all or nothing” kind of conference: You have very bad and useless presentations, along with very good ones.

However, for me I think I’m missing most of these. First of all, my interest in low level robotics is kinda low. Then, the presentations are at most 10 minutes duration. Then they’re in japanese… So at most I get some general idea of what is being presented, whithout getting into many details.

As for how I got here, I’m replacing a friend from the lab, who couldn’t come to make his presentation.

To tell the truth, I wasn’t very “wow” about coming here. However, yesterday night I met with the brazillian students at Okayama (I’m staying in their’s place) - and that was quite fun. I hope we can mess around more before saturday.

That’s it for now. There will be a session on space robots in 30 minutes. Even if I can’t (again) understand anything, it promises some pretty pictures.

Cheers.

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