Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 4.5-metre-tall (14.8-feet), four-wheeled robot that looks like “Mobile Suit Gundam” from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can be yours for $3 million.

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    This is unfortunately a lot less impressive than it looks, since it’s wheeled and not bipedal.

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    Didn’t they build this years ago? I remember the lame arse “fight” with the US robot company.

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      yes, like 10+ years ago.

      Still a joke, not sure why they don’t get a proper hydraulic control person involved in these projects.

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        I get the feeling that, seeing as hydraulics have been around for longer than robotics, it just isn’t practicable to build a robot out of hydraulics - otherwise we’d have them already.

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          Nah, you can’t beat the power density of hydraulics and never will unless room temp superconductors become a thing.

          Big Dog from Boston Dynamic was hydraulic.

          Going that size or bigger, hydraulics is a must.

          The reason you don’t see it is hydraulics is a completely different ball game.

          Controls researchers stick with small and electronic, because that’s what they know.

          It’s very rare to find a controls engineer that understands hydraulics.

          And the hydraulics experts out there, don’t have the background for sophisticated control theory.

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      i think they had an idea, a good one, but then at the last moment realized that it was all too dangerous and expensive in practice.

      then they tried doing some weird hybrid between “professional” wrestling and a documentary.

      poor planning was the ultimate downfall. i had high hopes.

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    I’d expect a full-scale gundam to cost more than 3 million dollar

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      Yeah you’d think there’d be some mention of what it’s good for… seems to be a toy, reading between the lines of what the founder says

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      I was so hype to watch two big ass robots do nothing to each other… I’m down for another hour long video, regardless.

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      I dont know what i was really expecting from that fight but man was i disappointed. All the hype for what amounted to about a 5 second robot slap fight.