# Yet Another Geek Builds His Giant Mecha!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-geek-builds-his-giant-mecha/306804>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 3, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-geek-builds-his-giant-mecha/306804 "2005-06-03T23:59:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-geek-builds-his-giant-mecha/306804/1 "2005-06-03T23:59:31Z")

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[You can buy one of these babies for just 36 million Yen.](http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050518f2.htm)

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> Gunma Pref. (Kyodo) An environment machinery maker has developed a robot that can be ridden and maneuvered like one in the animation series “Mobile Suit Gundam.”
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> The single-seat Land Walker robot, standing 3.4 meters high and weighing 1 ton, can walk forward, backward or sideways at 1.5 kph by operating four pedals, and shoots sponge bullets from two air guns installed beside the cockpit, according to Masaaki Nagumo of Sakakibara Kikai Co., based in Shinto, Gunma Prefecture.

Of course, it’s not as cool as [this one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=297618)

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**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-geek-builds-his-giant-mecha/306804/2 "2005-06-04T01:23:34Z")

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The [company website](http://www.sakakibara-kikai.co.jp/) has a video of it in operation. They’re kinda cheating though. It looks like it doesn’t pick up it’s feet - it just slides them along the ground. I’d guess that would limit it’s off-road capabilities.

I think it really needs arms so it can pick up and hurl cars, as well. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-geek-builds-his-giant-mecha/306804/3 "2005-06-04T01:34:52Z")

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Cool.

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**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-geek-builds-his-giant-mecha/306804/4 "2005-06-04T01:45:22Z")

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Somone obviously had WAY too much time on their hands.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Kenneth\_Noisewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@Dr.Kenneth\_Noisewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Kenneth_Noisewater)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-geek-builds-his-giant-mecha/306804/5 "2005-06-04T03:00:39Z")

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It has wheels? What a gyp.

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-geek-builds-his-giant-mecha/306804/6 "2005-06-04T05:42:21Z")

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> [@Dr. Kenneth Noisewater](#):
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> It has wheels? What a gyp.

Well, we can’t all afford a [Toyota I-Foot](http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/toyoto-ifoot-and-iunit-026866.php).