Saturday, October 3, 2026

Humans Are Afraid of Everything That Is New. Fulfilling a Dream Is Scary, Too.

Check out Takumi’s NEW English youtube channel 🎵
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https://www.youtube.com/@takuway

Thank you to everyone who joined yesterday's shoot! Thank you!

Thank you!

And to all the volunteers, too — you were truly miraculous. Thank you!

It was like an F1 pit stop.

Thank you!

SEIJI, too — thank you so much~~~

Thank you!

With the time down to the wire, we captured footage that was right on the edge!

Thank you!

Today, friends gather from all over the country. It's the final day of shooting.

Accept what is happening. Entrust yourself to the flow that is moving. Do what you can.

Always stay in a beautiful state, and bloom the flower of intention within the safety zone.

Everything that happens is the best. It is all happening at exactly the best possible moment.

We're shooting a movie right now, but here is Takumi Yamazaki back when there was still no talk of a film, answering, "My dream is to make a movie."

26:18 → 31:55

https://youtu.be/ij5bmhlJHFg?si=XpgA_5vtmn7DZS8W

The truth is, fulfilling a dream is scary. I'm scared. Please take a look at Takumi Yamazaki from a little while ago.

Here's what it's about

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  • The film dream hasn't come true yet

    • In his conversation with Ken Honda, Takumi Yamazaki says, "The dream of being a film director hasn't come true yet." He names it as one of the things that exist in his head as an idea, a "holder (drawer)," but that he hasn't yet started running toward making real [27:37].

  • The kind of film he wants to make

    • He wants to make a documentary film (something like Jin Tatsumura's gaiasymphonyfilm) in the vein of "Gaia Symphony" [28:59].

    • He wants to tell a story. A film that, even if viewers aren't conscious of it, powerfully moves their deep subconscious and influences them so that their lives begin to move forward and their dreams begin to come true — that is what he says he wants to make [29:10].

  • Turning his own novel into a film

    • Four or five years ago he wrote a novel together with Sakurai-sensei [29:38], and he also pictures turning his own original work into a film (Original story: Takumi Yamazaki / Director and producer: Takumi Yamazaki) as one of his dreams [29:52]. Takumi Yamazaki's novel.

  • A realistic approach to making the film

    • By raising funds through crowdfunding and drawing on his wide network (artists, actors, supporters, and more), he speaks with concrete imagery and excitement: "It might actually happen quickly," "If funds gather through crowdfunding and screenings in theaters nationwide are decided…" [27:41].

      See the whole video here ↓↓↓

https://youtu.be/ij5bmhlJHFg?si=XpgA_5vtmn7DZS8W

They're doing this in Paris~~~

In the end, the "age of AI and robots" is coming… Scary?!

Humans are afraid of everything that's new.

When you start avoiding new things, aging has begun.

When you start avoiding failure, decline has begun.

Never neglect learning. Grow your curiosity muscle.

Make people who know a lot part of your network. Surprisingly, they're often kept at a distance by those around them.

Be an innovator!

Be an early adopter!

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[The Shock of Humanoid Robots' "Price Collapse"] A Gundam-like transforming robot / unmanned taxis gliding through crowded roads / what's behind prices falling 70% in two years / even unlicensed street stalls at the expo (Yoshimitsu Rai / Denmyaku East)

1. The State of China's Robot Industry and an Overview of the Giant Expo

  • The World Robot Conference (Beijing) [00:39] Held at the Beijing International Convention Center under the slogan "Creating New Value Through Human-Robot Coexistence" [00:39, 00:53].

    • Robots line the roughly 55,000 square meter venue, with over 3,000 exhibits (more than 300 of them new) and over 550,000 visitors, creating a feverish excitement [00:58, 01:11].

2. Robot Deployment and Field Trials in Each Sector

  • Physical-ability and special-task robots [01:28]

    • Along with top runners such as "Unitree," which draws attention with running and jumping, a transforming robot (GD-01), about 3 m tall and weighing 500 kg and reminiscent of Gundam from the anime, made its first appearance [01:28, 01:47, 01:59]. Though barriers of price and regulation remain, it is a big step toward turning dreams into concrete early products [02:21].

  • Small unmanned stores (retail) [03:23]

    • "Galaxy Space Capsule" and others are deployed in 50 cities nationwide, starting with Beijing [03:23, 03:32], and features such as voice interaction through a microphone and handing over products with dual-arm manipulators are already in practical use [04:30, 05:15].

  • Autonomous driving and robotaxis [05:54]

    • They rode a "Pony.ai" robotaxi, with about 2,000 vehicles in operation as of summer 2026 [08:08]. AI recognizes camera and LiDAR data in real time, changing lanes and controlling speed and braking on congested roads as smoothly as a human [09:05, 09:35].

  • The chaotic energy and ecosystem unique to expos [10:14]

    • There is a chaotic side, such as unlicensed street stalls inside the venue [10:14, 11:31], but it is also cultivating ground where children can touch cutting-edge technology and become interested in the engineering of the future [11:31].

3. The Mechanism and Background of Robots' "Price Collapse"

  • Joint and reducer supply and cost reduction [12:01, 13:28]

    • For "production cost," the biggest bottleneck to the spread of robots — especially key parts such as precision reducers — the technology of Japanese companies (such as Harmonic Drive Systems) and the Chinese domestic supply chain that rivals them are being used [12:13, 12:27].

  • The dramatic drop in prices (the shock of a 70% discount) [13:28]

    • According to the materials, the average selling price of humanoid robots fell by about 70% in 2025 compared with 2023 [13:28].

    • The strategy is to first open up the market at low prices and increase shipment volume [13:42].

4. Practical Automation and Logistics Systems, and Challenges Ahead

  • High-speed sorting in logistics sites [14:17]

    • Correlation sorting systems such as those from "X-Square Robotics" are already operating at logistics sites [14:17]. They deliver high throughput, including fast AI identification (judging in 2 seconds), handling of soft objects, and automatic error correction [14:29, 15:02, 15:31].

  • Future challenges [15:59]

    • Although they have a track record in high-throughput environments with fixed tasks, such as logistics, handling complex environments like the home — full of uncertainty and requiring instant judgment — remains a major challenge for the future [15:59].

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2nPmU4m6Ao

Link to Takumi Yamazaki’s ENGLISH Book “SHIFT”
https://amzn.to/2DYcFkG

Original post (Japanese): https://ameblo.jp/takumi-yamazaki/entry-12980460265.html

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