We are all doomed. A Japanese man from Ibaraki Prefecture with too much time has built a gigantic bug mecha that not only looks awesome but also actually works. Takahashi-san is 60 and has begun building the thing in 1998 and now owns a fifteen ton robot. The monster is an impressive eleven meters long.
The mecha, dubbed Kabutom RX-03, is equipped with a cool control panel, can be remote-controlled (which is especially awesome) and is shaped like a rhinoceros beetle. This is what I call a cool hobby project (Takahashi is an engineer, after all).
The Kabutom RX-03 was shown on Japanese TV last night. I missed it, but luckily someone put up the video on YouTube (see below).
Via AltJapan
“Kabutom MX-03″? Isn’t it meant to be “RX-03″ as shown in the subtitle?
This giant beetle robot is awesome! I really admire the skills of the Japanese people when it comes in creating this kind of stuff.
Not bad of a creation,but why?
The real question here is why not?
I take it you haven’t watched Terminator, I Robot, or 2001 space odyssey yet.
it looks like were one step closer to judgement day.
Actually, I think this guy may be a superhero. He’s our reality’s counterpart to Ted Kord/Blue Beetle. (Daniel Dreiberg/The Nite Owl for Watchmen fans). Mark my words. When the legions of Apocolypse attack earth, we’ll owe this man our lives.
But … it has wheels. That’s cheating!
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