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Giant remote-controlled robot is built in Japan
BBC News ^ | 11/29/12 | BBC

Posted on 11/30/2012 10:47:53 AM PST by NormsRevenge

Kogoro Kurata grew up watching futuristic robots in movies and animation, wishing he could bring them to life.

Now, his childhood dream has become a reality as he's built a massive robot that he can control.

His 4-tonne, 4-metre tall Kuratas robot has a built-in pilot's seat and hand-held controller.

It lets him move the robot's massive arms, and make it walk at speeds of up to six miles per hour.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Japan; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: giant; japan; remotecontrolled; robot
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Me hungry!


1 posted on 11/30/2012 10:48:01 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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about $800K .. comes with mobile phone software control capibility..

sooo soory, not a stocking stuffer and forget putting it under the tree..


2 posted on 11/30/2012 10:49:37 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: NormsRevenge

Getting ready for Godzilla.


3 posted on 11/30/2012 10:49:50 AM PST by Hugin ("Most times a man'll tell you his bad intentions, if you listen and let yourself hear."---Open Range)
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To: NormsRevenge

HS, the Terminator is upon us already! I was thinking maybe 2050, but now?


4 posted on 11/30/2012 10:50:37 AM PST by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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Melly Chlistmas!


5 posted on 11/30/2012 10:50:54 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: NormsRevenge

“...forget putting it under the tree...”

It could BE the tree with a few light strings and ornaments.


6 posted on 11/30/2012 10:51:44 AM PST by moovova
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What a hood ornament! strings of lights.. Oh Yeah!


7 posted on 11/30/2012 10:54:05 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Hugin
US version...


8 posted on 11/30/2012 10:54:25 AM PST by C210N (In favor of private rights and public happiness)
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To: NormsRevenge

Coming soon to a battlefield near you!


9 posted on 11/30/2012 10:55:44 AM PST by The Duke
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To: NormsRevenge

Built by the Godzilla Force.

10 posted on 11/30/2012 10:56:27 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: NormsRevenge

COOL!

A real Battlemech!


11 posted on 11/30/2012 10:56:48 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: NormsRevenge
This Japanese Built Iron Giant ain't got nothing on Liberty Prime


12 posted on 11/30/2012 10:58:22 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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I want a Valkyrie or a hover tank variant.


13 posted on 11/30/2012 11:03:11 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Looks like RoboCop II..............

14 posted on 11/30/2012 11:08:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: NormsRevenge
Naahhh .. it's only a movie .... isn't it??
15 posted on 11/30/2012 11:09:08 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: NormsRevenge; maikeru; Dr. Marten; Eric in the Ozarks; Al Gator; snowsislander; sushiman; ...
Prototype armor for Japan's new Section 9?

日本 ピング  (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)

16 posted on 11/30/2012 11:14:58 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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Put Bugs Bunny’s brain in it.


17 posted on 11/30/2012 11:15:24 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: NormsRevenge

Awesome. Gundam.


18 posted on 11/30/2012 11:23:43 AM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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Prototype armor for Japan's new Section 9?

...thanks, for the ping....

19 posted on 11/30/2012 11:24:10 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth....RWR 8-)
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I like It...

20 posted on 11/30/2012 11:26:42 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth....RWR 8-)
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