NHK’s “Night of Demonic Modification” will begin its new season in May. “Electric massager 25m drag race”

The theme of “Night of Magical Modification” broadcast on May 30th is “Electric massager 25m drag race”
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NHK will continue to broadcast “Makai no Yoru” on General TV in 2024. The first episode of the new season will be broadcast on May 30th from 7:30 pm to 8:42 pm, and will feature an “Electric Massager 25m Drag Race” between a super elite student team and two major manufacturers.

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An electric massager has been magically modified and will be a blast at a magical night party! The theme is that a healing home appliance can be run using its “vibration” as power, and you can use it alone or in combination. But in the first place, does the massager move? How can we turn the jiggling motion into forward movement?

Normally, vibrations are removed in transportation equipment such as automobiles, but converting them into power is an extremely difficult task that no one has yet attempted. Moreover, the venue for the evening party is a 25m course with uneven surfaces made of exposed concrete, making it extremely difficult to run in a straight line. What kind of mechanism should be used to make it run, and is it possible to make it faster?

Motor professional “M Buchi Motor”
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Each team is a Robocon winning school, a motor professional, and a world-renowned automobile and motorcycle manufacturer, but all of them are in great pain and struggle. It won’t move forward…It doesn’t go according to the simulation…It was damaged during the actual test run… However, after a month and a half of hard work, the engineers created an amazing machine.

“M-buchi motor”
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3 teams have created completely different “exploding electric massagers”, and at the evening party, will the machines run splendidly? Who will win? What is their amazing speed? Excitement, joy, and tears, this year too. An unpredictable drama begins.

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“S Zuki”
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The challenger will be T-Bashi University of Technology, a science university in Aichi Prefecture that has won many Robocon contests and is very active in world competitions, as well as T-Bashi University of Technology, which manufactures and sells small motors for cars and home appliances around the world. M Buchi Motor, an electrical equipment manufacturer, and Szuki, a global manufacturer of light cars and other four-wheeled vehicles and two-wheeled vehicles, which has an overwhelming share of the Indian market.

The live commentary was Takeshi Yano, the commentary was Keisuke Nagafuji, associate professor at the University of Tokyo, and the advisors were Hikaru Ijuin and Saya Ichikawa.