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Added on the 04/01/2019 04:00:00 - Copyright : AFP EN
Sci-fi fans, rejoice! Rides at a new theme park being built in China's Guiyang city called the East Science Valley will combine many of the hallmarks of popular science fiction, like futuristic cities, robots, space travel, and aliens, with the latest in virtual reality, augmented reality, holograph projection, and other modern visual tech. Officials announced that the park is set to be completed December, but Ruptly got a sneak peek inside.
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.
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