The boardable robots era has come; the Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry on Sunday in Tokyo at the Wonder Festival unveiled a 13ft combat robot called “Kuratas” which can be controlled from inside as well as remotely via 3G. Engineers Wataru Yoshizaki and Kogoro Kurata have been working on the robot since 2010, the company also released a video where the pilot Anna gives step by step instructions of how to operate the Kuratas.
Kuratas has 30 hydraulic joints which can be moved by the pilot using Motion Sensor technology, the diesel-powered robot weighs 4.5 tonnes and includes two humanoid arms and four wheeled legs, and it can run at a top speed of 10 km/h.
Kuratas is inspired by Japanese comic book “mecha”, it features a "shot-proof" armour and a futuristic weapons system which includes two gatling guns capable of shooting 6,000 BB bullets a minute, which fire when the pilot smiles; Suidobashi call this "the smile shot", and a Lohas launcher, a rocket launcher that fires water plastic bottles.
The rumoured price tag is $1 million (£637,000).
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