From Japan Today:
MAEBASHI ? An environment machinery maker has developed a robot that can be ridden and maneuvered like one in the animation series Mobile Suit Gundam, the company employee in charge of the development said Sunday.
The single-seat Land Walker robot, which is 3.4 meters high and weighs 1 ton, can be made to walk forward and backward or sideways at 1.5 kilometers per hour by operating four pedals, and to shoot sponge bullets from two air guns installed beside the cockpit, said Masaaki Nagumo of Sakakibara Kikai Co. based in the village of Shinto in Gunma Prefecture. Nagumo, 32, developed the product over two years almost all by himself as he wanted to develop a robot that could be driven and operated to move like Gundam. (Kyodo News)
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I wanna get me one of these!!!!!
Japan Today - News - Gundam-like robot developed
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Wah… If only I didn’t just agree to buy a house… *drool*
Imagine one of those things in my garage. All those yacht-owners would be suffering envy pangs
See Neogentronyx.
The US military take on the crazy guy in frozen Alaska building a mecha in his backyard..
Function over form, function over form, function over form..
I want Sentai mecha!
You might want to check out my previous entry here:
http://ahmadintaiwan.blogspot.com/2005/04/mech-warrior-in-my-backyard.html
Looks more like Mechwarrior than Gundam to me… Either way it’s cool. I’d love to see these things once they’re faster and capable of off-road travel.