FutureKreate

FutureKreate is an open-world simulator in which you become a robot, explore the world and help build a new civilization. In its story, a future where AI and robots have replaced many jobs ends in human extinction after World War III. The Earth-restoration AI TENSEI-chan creates an island and summons the surviving robots to begin a new civilization, and you are reincarnated as one of them.

Explore as a robot

You can experience different robots, some based on 3D CAD blueprint data. Switch between third-person view and a robot’s first-person vision; Happy Mini 2017, for example, has a full-range camera. Fly as a drone or take a small robot through narrow paths. Some of the robots have been manufactured and have competed in events such as RoboCup. With 3D CAD data from a real robot, you can also inspect its internal mechanical design.

The featured robots include:

• Happy Mini 2017: A manufactured home-support robot designed by Kensei Demura through collaborative research between D.K.T. ltd and Kanazawa Institutes of Technology Demura Robotics Lab. Its arm was designed by ROBOTIS using OpenMANIPULATOR-X. Designed as a younger sister, Happy Mini has competed in RoboCup@home 2017 and can read picture books expressively using AI and deep learning.
• Happy Mini GAP: A home-support robot in the design phase, created by several women designers in the Girls Art Project and designed as a mother. It is intended to use IoT and smart-home technology to control things by telepathy. A factory has made its plastic mold, but development is still in progress.
• Holand Loptaro: A robot in development designed by a middle-school student. It can pass through narrow gaps, and you can see through its rabbit-like vision in robot view.

Build a new civilization

You can build houses on the ocean floor, on mountain tops and in the air, as well as create reclaimed land and an aerial city. The game frames this building and exploration as restoring the civilization destroyed by humanity’s actions.

Creator Mode

Creator Mode is intended for robotics experiments. You can upload your own robot designs and models, then control the uploaded robots manually or through programming. The mode also lets you upload building and house models to create architecture in the simulator. It supports 3D models from Windows 10 3D Viewer, and the game makes its real living-lab 3D floor plans available for use.

You can use the industrial robotics platform ROS to program robots and develop AI inside the simulator. Creator Mode requires a robot 3D blueprint in OBJ, FBX, GLB or GLTF format. The description also lists FBX, OBJ and GLTF as supported robot-avatar upload formats, and Blender, Autodesk Fusion 360, FreeCAD, Lego Digital Designer and LeoCAD as supported 3D modeling software. Designing your own robot can change the game’s difficulty.

A variant of FutureKreate was used in a robotics department class at Kanazawa Institute of Technology from September 2020 to January 2021.