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Paris (France), Oct 14 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Mohammed Badra) The giant puppet Amal, created by the Handspring Puppet Company and symbolizing a young refugee, went out on Thursday for a walk through the garden of the Palais-Royal in Paris as part of 'The Walk', an artistic initiative in which the puppet will travel 8,000 kilometers from Syria to Great Britain to raise awareness about the needs of young refugees.FOOTAGE OF THE GIANT AMAL PUPPET IN PARIS.
Japanese engineer Masaaki Nagumo has built a giant drivable robot inspired by the science fiction animation series 'Mobile Suit Gundam.' The robot is 8.5 metres tall (28ft), has two legs and weighs more than seven tons.
This may be the oddest robot that we've ever seen. Meet Larifuga, the robot house that's designed to walk on her 8 feet. You heard right, this robot prototype of a walking building was designed by architects of Russia's Samara State Technical University and was exhibited in Volgograd on Wednesday. You'll never guess what this machine is designed to do. The designers claim that Larifuga can become a cheap office-space alternative for today's small businesses. The anatomy of the prototype’s legs is designed to replicate the limbs of mammals, reptiles and insects. Four of the legs always stay still when the robot moves to make sure that it doesn't tip over. The prototype is currently made of laminate, but designers are planning to use metal and concrete in the future, just like a real house. Do you think houses in the future might be able to walk around?
There's no better to show that the future is here than giant manned robots. Like a scene straight out of the hit anime Gundam Wing, a human being piloted a giant robot, controlling the movements of the robot arms with his own arms. The human-piloted robot is called the “Method-2”, and the machine took it's first steps in the Gunpo studio of the Hankook Mirae Technology Company near Seoul on Thursday. The 13-foot-tall Method-2 robot moves based on commands given by the pilot's movements, which are sent to the robot through sensors attached to the pilot's arms and fingers. The robot then processes the commands sent from the human seated in the central cockpit and moves its 286 pound robotic arms and fingers to match the movement of the pilot. Around 30 engineers have been testing the mammoth machine and the company has invested over $200 million into the robot's production and development since 2014. Lead designer Vitaly Bulgarov drew inspiration from his previous work on the fantasy films featuring giant robots, such as the Transformers and Terminator series. Hankook Mirae aim to place the giant robot into mass production and hope to get it to market by the end of 2017. If you want your own giant robot, you may be able to pick one up for the low low price of $8.3 million.
If you've ever watched the hit Japanese anime show Gundam Wing, you may have fantasized about owning and piloting your own giant, humanoid robot. Well now the chance may finally be yours. Engineers in Osaka, led by lead designer Hajime Sakamoto, have finally finished a massive operational humanoid robot with a built-in cockpit into which the driver of the robot can climb and direct the movements of the metal behemoth after 6 years of construction.
Walk-Man is an advanced humanoid robot built to replace humans in emergency situations. Matthew Stock reports.
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