Check out this crazy robot, KURATAS designed by Suidobashi Heavy Industry, a two-man team made up of artist Kogoro Kurata and robotics researcher Wataru Yoshizak. They started working on the functional robot back in 2012 and was officially unveiled at last month’s Wonder Festival. The diesel-powered KURATAS measures 13 feet in height and weighs in at 4.4 tons, featuring 30 hydraulic joints and supported by four wheeled legs, allowing a top speed of just under 6.5 miles per hour. It comes with its own weapons, including a multi-rocket launcher that fires plastic rockets filled with compressed water, as well as a gatling gun that shoots 6,000 BB bullets a minute that’s actually triggered when the pilot smiles. It can be operated either inside by a one-man cockpit or remotely through a smartphone connected to a 3G network. The team wants to mass produce their robot, which has a price tag of about 1.35 million.
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