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Tokyo startup Tsubame Industries has developed a four-wheeled robot that is 4.5 meters (14.8 feet) tall, similar to the “Mobile Suit Gundam” from the Japanese anime series, and is priced at $3 million. The robot, named ARCHAX after the bird-dinosaur, has a cockpit monitor that allows the pilot to use joysticks to control its arms and hands. The 3.5-ton robot, which will be shown at Japan’s Mobility Show, has two modes: an upright “robot mode” and a “vehicle mode”, and can reach a top speed of 10 kilometers per hour (6 miles per hour).
Ryo Yoshida, the 25-year-old CEO of Tsubame Industries, said he hopes to combine Japan’s strengths in animation, games, robots and automobiles into a product to express the industrial spirit of “this is Japan.” He plans to produce and sell five of the robots, and hopes to use them in disaster relief or the aerospace industry in the future. Yoshida has been interested in manufacturing since he was a child, learning to weld at his grandfather’s steel factory and then starting a company that produced prosthetic hands. He is eager to continue Japan’s traditional competitive advantage in manufacturing.
(From: Reuters, Image source: freepik)
