Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 4.5-metre-tall (14.8-feet), four-wheeled robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam" from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can be yours for $3 million.
Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 4.5-metre-tall (14.8-feet), four-wheeled robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam" from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can be yours for $3 million.
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xep@kbin.social · 57 pts · 2y
This is unfortunately a lot less impressive than it looks, since it's wheeled and not bipedal.
stardust@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 2y
It's Guntank.
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Poggggggggggggg
krey@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz · 34 pts · 2y
"$3 mln" is somehow a lot less explanatory than "$3m"
mifan@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 2y
I thought it was $3/min 🤷🏽‍♂️
vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
$3 million / minute
axsyse@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y
I think it's to draw a distinction from the similar "milliard", which means "billion" in British English but has fallen out of fashion.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 2y
It's a bit of a shame really, since it makes much more sense: How big is a billion?
OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y
I only go with SI units: Gigabucks
Anyone in possession of a billion dollars is a Gigabuckaroo
Deceptichum@kbin.social · 24 pts · 2y
Didn’t they build this years ago? I remember the lame arse “fight” with the US robot company.
ShadowRam@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y
yes, like 10+ years ago.
Still a joke, not sure why they don't get a proper hydraulic control person involved in these projects.
TWeaK@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
I get the feeling that, seeing as hydraulics have been around for longer than robotics, it just isn't practicable to build a robot out of hydraulics - otherwise we'd have them already.
ShadowRam@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
Nah, you can't beat the power density of hydraulics and never will unless room temp superconductors become a thing.
Big Dog from Boston Dynamic was hydraulic.
Going that size or bigger, hydraulics is a must.
The reason you don't see it is hydraulics is a completely different ball game.
Controls researchers stick with small and electronic, because that's what they know.
It's very rare to find a controls engineer that understands hydraulics.
And the hydraulics experts out there, don't have the background for sophisticated control theory.
krey@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
ShadowRam@kbin.social · 0 pts · 2y
I'm not sure why you say that. They are not.
krey@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
StalksEveryone@futurology.today · 5 pts · 2y
i think they had an idea, a good one, but then at the last moment realized that it was all too dangerous and expensive in practice.
then they tried doing some weird hybrid between “professional” wrestling and a documentary.
poor planning was the ultimate downfall. i had high hopes.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
How long does this last against a c4-strapped drone swarm?
ThePantser@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Movements kinda slow to be any real threat, nice try Skynet.
robsuto@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Just an iteration. They'll be there in no time.
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y
Looks more like the loader from Aliens, which (to me) is more interesting than Gundam.
TWeaK@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
US vs Japan mech battle take 2?
Qkall@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
I was so hype to watch two big ass robots do nothing to each other.... I'm down for another hour long video, regardless.
ShoePaste@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
I dont know what i was really expecting from that fight but man was i disappointed. All the hype for what amounted to about a 5 second robot slap fight.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
I'd expect a full-scale gundam to cost more than 3 million dollar
blazera@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
Author needs to watch more Gundam
kemsat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Remember the end of Iron Man 1? Because I’m suddenly reminded of it…
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
Cool... but why??
fred@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
Yeah you'd think there'd be some mention of what it's good for... seems to be a toy, reading between the lines of what the founder says
StalksEveryone@futurology.today · 3 pts · 2y
it looks like the Kuratas. isn’t this too dangerous to give to just anyone?
nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Holy shit just 3 million!
queermunist@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 2y
That's just the exo-suit from “Aliens”