KO PROPO is a brand of
radio control equipment and
humanoid robot
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KHR-1
The KHR-1 is a programmable, bipedal humanoid robot introduced in June 2004 by a Japanese company Kondo Kagaku. At the time of its introduction it was one of the least expensive programmable bipedal robots (prices averaging around $1,600 in the Un ...
) by Kondo Kagaku, established in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
,
Japan in 1945.
In 1982 KO PROPO introduced the Expert EX-1, reported to have been the first to integrate a
pistol grip
On a firearm or other tools, a pistol grip is a distinctly protruded handle underneath the main mechanism, to be held by the user's hand at a more vertical (and thus more ergonomic) angle, similar to the how one would hold a conventional pis ...
into a transmitter device with a gun
trigger
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;Mononym
* Trigger (horse), owned by cowboy star Roy Rogers
;Nickname
* Trigger Alpert (1916–2013), American jazz bassist
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to act as the throttle, which later became a popular fixture in radio controlled transmitters.
the company had won 32
IFMAR World titles.
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KO PROPO USA
Japanese companies established in 1945
Companies based in Tokyo
Radio-controlled transmitter
Robotics companies of Japan
Robotics in Japan
Science and technology in Japan
Japanese brands
Technology companies established in 1945
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