Tsubame is Japanese startup, with CEO 25-year-old inventor Ryo Yoshida, that is making real life giant mech robots. The robots are 15-feet-tall and weigh around 3.5 tons. They will sell giant mechs for $3 million each.
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One way to separate yourself from the crowd at ComicCon wearing this.
And…. What’s the use case?
It seems a bit slow for everyday transportation and it doesn’t look like it has the weaponry to get by in todays traffic. It moves in slow motion with agility like a 90 years old human being so getting in a street fight is not advisable.
Price is too high for mass adoption.
The real showstopper is the fact that is uses wheels instead of legs. That removes most of the coolness that might have motivated its existence. Put 4 – 6 legs on it, make it submersible so it can walk on the seafloor and wake me up when it costs a lot less.
Exactly. They look cool and all, but I’m having a hard time trying to figure out what the use case is.
As long as they can stop the giant kaiju attacks, money is not an issue.