The Hanoitimes - A spinning top invented by a Vietnamese robotic firm has become the country’s first toy to win World Guinness certificate for the longest mechanical running duration.
The record spinning duration of 24 hours, 35 minutes and 15 seconds was set on May 23 at the Hanoi-based TOSY Robotics. The process was witnessed by six local notarizing officials, Tuoi Tre reported Tuesday.
Le Quoc Hung, head of Hanoi Notary Office, said that the Guinness World Records strictly required at least two independent notary officers to observe the spinning top at any time and the whole process had to be filmed constantly.
The video was then sent to Guinness experts in
Alexsandr Vypirailenko, a representative of Guinness World Records, said in a letter to TOSY Robotics that the company totally deserves the certificate for their interesting product.
Ho Vinh Hoang, general director of TOSY Robotics, said that the spinning top had been actually designed to run 60 hours and it did.
But the company had turned off cameras en route as the technologies at the firm do not allow such a long time of filming, Hoang said, adding that the Guinness officials earlier said that 24 hours is enough for the record.
He said the company engineers have spent many months creating dozens of different versions of the toy to figure out how to make it run the longest time on the least energy.
“The Guinness record has proved that our target is to create high-tech and innovative toys, which will help
He said the commercial version of the spinning top has been designed to run at the maximum four hours.
The toy will be launched on
TOSY spinning top, which has been made attractive with LED lights, imitates a
At a
TOSY Robotics started exporting its products in 2010, with 500,000 Tosy UFO, which was later updated into AFO, sold to
Around 210,000 of the toy were sold in
TOSY Robotics is the first Vietnamese robotics firm that produces four types of products: gigantic robots, service robots, industrial robots and hi-tech toys.
An official with the Ministry of Industry and Trade said that Tosy products can compete well with those from
