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Coming soon: a 12-foot-tall robot you can ride and steer by wwy yrj
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Coming soon: a 12-foot-tall robot you can ride and steer by WWY YRJ
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| Article Posted: 02/01/2013 |
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[Credit: Suidobashi Heavy Industry] Here at GeekTech, we cover a lot of advanced robots, but what wereally want to see is progress in the exoskeleton front (think Iron Man suit). Meet Vaudeville (sometimes called Kuratasu), a 12-foot-tall, five-ton mech thatyou can get inside of and control like a real Mobile Suit. Vaudeville is a creation of Suidobashi Heavy Industry , a Japanese mecha building enthusiast group made up of a Kogoro Kurata , Wataru Yoshizaki and Yuke Kitani. Vaudeville looks somethingstraight out of a Japanese anime with a bulking body, tiny head,and a crazy looking mobile platform. But it really works, and youcan jump into its torso to control it.
The whole thing carts aroundon four-legs with wheels (like a Tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell), and it's powered by a diesel enginethat s also located in its torso. Your browser does not support iframes. It might seem like you would incredible number of button, switches,and levers just to turn it on--but to the contrary it is reallyquite simple. The control interface uses a smartphone running V-SIDO software and uses a set of joysticks to control the arms.
It also usesMicrosoft Kinect head-tracking to rotate the torso and cockpit. As for the mech s weapon systems, it won t be carrying anythinglethal. The only things that Vaudeville will have on board are awater gun and a fully articulated five-finger hand that can easily crush cardboard boxes . Suidobashi Heavy Industry expects to finish Vaudeville sometimelater this year, after which the builders plan to sell it on theopen mech market.
WANT! [Credit: Suidobashi Heavy Industry] [ Suidobashi Heavy Industry and Kogoro Kurata via Tested ] Like this? You might also enjoy Cellphone Glove Brings Us One Step Closer to Being Iron Man This DIY Tesla Gun Must Be The Deadliest Weapon Ever Electric Motorcycle Hits 200 MPH; Breaks Record, Burns Rubber Get more GeekTech: Twitter - Facebook - RSS Tip us off Follow Kevin Lee. I am High Polymers writer, reports some information about uno lamp shades , ribbon printing machines.
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