Quote:Suidobashi Heavy Industry [...] completed a 13-foot-tall, 4.4-ton, diesel-powered robot called Kuratas. The two-man team — artist Kogoro Kurata and robotics researcher Wataru Yoshizaki — isn't stopping there, either. Suidobashi wants to mass produce, starting at the low price of $1.35 million.

Quote:So what do you get for the money? Kuratas has over 30 hydraulic joints that allow it to freely move its arms, legs, and torso. It can fire water bottle rockets and fireworks, and its 6,000 round-per-minute BB gattling guns are controlled with the pilot’s smile; part of Yoshizaki’s V-Shido (read like bushido, as in "way of the samurai") control system. In order to get around, the four-legged mech uses ordinary wheels, but the Suidobashi team wants to get it walking in order to navigate uneven terrain.

Article: http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/30/320132...obot-japan
(see article for videos)

I suppose this version doesn't require a small teenage girl as a pilot.

(This post was last modified: 02/08/2012 11:53 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)

cool. ordererd two!
i hope there is an mp3 player included :)

(This post was last modified: 03/08/2012 04:59 AM by Mythos.)

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lol, that's awesome, but 1.35 mil... >.<