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ZMP INC.

ZMP INC. is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand ZMP INC. rather than just read about it. In short: ZMP Inc. is a Japanese robotics company. The company was established in January 2001, based on the research results encouraged the Kitano Symbiotic System Project, under the jurisdiction of Japan's MEXT.

Key takeaways

ZMP INC. belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect ZMP INC. to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of ZMP INC. from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

ZMP Inc. is a Japanese robotics company. The company was established in January 2001, based on the research results encouraged the Kitano Symbiotic System Project, under the jurisdiction of Japan's MEXT. Their first product released was the humanoid robot PINO in 2001. The company's name comes from the Zero Moment Point, a physical quantity related to the dynamics of legged systems. More recently, they released the humanoid robot nuvo in 2005 and the music robot miuro in 2006. In 2009, the research platform for next generation cars RoboCar was released. In 2008, ZMP and 3 other Japanese robot companies (Tmsuk Co Ltd, Vstone Co Ltd, and Business Design Laboratory Co Ltd) teamed up in an effort to promote the diffusion of robotic technologies in everyday life. This effort was called the 'Association for Market Creation of the Future Generation Robots'. In July 2015, Sony teamed up with ZMP Inc. to form a Joint venture called Aerosense, to create commercial drones for the survey and inspection of difficult to access (e.g. remote) areas. The following month, Aerosense released videos of two prototypes, the AS-DTO1-E VTOL, and the AS-MCO1-P quadcopter.

Sony Electric Vehicle ZMP is also working together with Sony in a different area. Google is working on Automobile technology, self-driving cars. More recently, Apple has worked on electric vehicles (iCar/Project Titan). Sony, following suit in the developing self-driving automotive industry, has invested $842,000 in ZMP.

PATORO disinfection robot To help building managers deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, ZMP is leasing PATORO, an "autonomous security and disinfection robot", for spraying disinfectant over surfaces, such as the hallways of large structures; PATORO also has building security functions.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with ZMP INC.

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what ZMP INC. claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to ZMP INC. before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about ZMP INC. ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of ZMP INC.

In research: ZMP INC. appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses ZMP INC. in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: ZMP INC. is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Companies established in 2001, Electric vehicle industry, Japanese brands, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for ZMP INC. outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study ZMP INC. in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what ZMP INC. means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain ZMP INC. out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is ZMP INC. in simple terms?

Why does ZMP INC. matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study ZMP INC.?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on ZMP INC..