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Weird. I didn't know Gundams had wheels.
Fucking trash article. Every single outlet reporting on this is calling it a Gundam. Clearly we wouldn't know what a 15 foot tall robot is without someone comparing it to a 100ft bipedal machine with massive guns and lightsabers that looks totally different than what they're describing.
There are plenty of instances in anime where mechs (I guess not specifically Gundam) have wheels or skates/wheels, like Code Geass. I think its mostly so they don't have to animate walking on the ground or draw different leg movements/positions.
Edit: added stuff about drawing.
gundum suits arent real dude its fiction
thats just a lot of car parts assembled incorrectly
and a CEO
and maybe 1 or 2 enginees maybe
/ssssssss
yea when i saw the wheels i knew
this is a attempt at geting funding
that will not be spent on much more than the board members
No, it's not for space exploration, and no, it wasn't unveiled by the nation of Japan. Hyperbole to the extreme, shame on you, Independent.
Some Japanese bloke built it after learning how to weld, and said he thinks it'd be cool if something like it could be used for space exploration one day.
There's no story here, just a guy doing simple DIY metalwork robotics.
There's 100 other options that are more practical but 100% less cool
"Japan, we don't need to design a mecha for everything."
"But Gundam P1ANT will make crop harvesting 10% more efficient!"
"We need to get you into a war just so you have an outlet."
hopes the robot could one day be used for disaster relief or in the space industry
Imagine I'd just fiddle around and build a few neat things and then hope they are going to be useful in outer space 😄
These guys 100% have no use case whatsoever for the thing they're building besides "dude let's MECHA"
I can respect that tbh, but pretending and dancing around it is a bit lame
Get away from her you bitch!
"space exploration"
The demands of space exploration weight reduction, weight reduction, compactness and weight reduction. The demands of disaster relief are probably all terrain mobility, strength and stability. Those attributes are polar opposites.
So 1/4 scale mobile suit. Not quite a Gundam, but it's a start.
boondoggle noun
- a wasteful and worthless project undertaken for political, corporate, or personal gain
I don’t know that I’d call this wasteful or worthless. Does it have a current application? Likely not. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be built upon.
This is a hobby for a man-child with more money and time than sense. I bet you the speed that the arms move in the video is the max they're capable of.
This will never be useful for any actual work. Someone might eventually buy it for a publicity stunt.
It's happening? IT'S HAPPENING GUYS!
Didn't Captain Disillusion already debunk this...?
Different co in SK.
If you sit in a seat, it's not a suit.
Gundam series mobile suits all were piloted from a seated position.
G gundam had these bodysuit they wore in a pod thing. Even a horse could pilot one.
Gundams aren't suits either.
And the ones in aliens were but they didn't call them that. Being a bit pedantic aren't you.
The Aliens power lifters are on the border of "Suit". You stand in them. The arms and legs have your arms and legs inside them, and they move as yours do. So yah I'd call that a suit that you wear. Just barely.
"Leg scooter" didn't test well with consumers 😹
Disaster relief, huh? Sounds like you've got a job , 621...
I for one, wish to welcome our new mech-overlords who cannot climb stairs.
All it's missing is the queen alien!
Evangelion when?
When we figure out how to genetically engineer robots to not be robots but be aliens that are also robots that also are your dead mom.
Do you see any kaijus?
Well Fukushima just dumped their waste last month...
