June 19, 2006
I, for one, welcome our new Overlords
Okay, I'm not even going to try to explain why they're building this one ... But Sakakibara Kikai, a Japanese company that usually makes advanced farm equipment (but also ventures into intelligent robots on occasion), has developed a robot you can ride in that looks a lot like a Star Wars Land Walker or like any of the millions of anime transformers we all grew up with. Life imitates art, I guess. Not sure what they're planning to use it for yet. Maybe it was just a demonstration of mobility. But some of the online videos even show it armed with huge guns.
Here's the creator's website: http://www.sakakibara-kikai.co.jp/products/other/LW.htm Click through to see the video.
# posted by globalgirl @ 2:51 PM 
