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Your Own Mecha

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shinji-is-to-cranky-to-pilot-today dept.

BJH writes "A Japanese company by the unfortunate name of tmsuk has just announced the world's largest robot capable of carrying a person - the 3.5m tall, 5 ton T52 Enryu HyperRescueRobot. Their product site is in Japanese, but here's a few fun facts: it's 10m wide with its arms fully outstretched, is powered by an onboard water-cooled three cylinder direct injection diesel engine, has a maximum speed of 3Km/h, and carries seven 680,000-pixel CCD cameras with a separate monitor for each camera. If no whiny 14-year-olds are available to pilot it, it can be remotely controlled (with a dummy plug in the cockpit, presumably)."

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  1. Bring on the Aliens by ntsucks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get Signorey Weaver and bring on the Alien mother.

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  2. Sounds good, but... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    does it run Rinux?

    C'mon, this joke's got legs!

    Looks like the perfect thing to babysit kids with or fight mother aliens.

    Scratch that, the kids'll break it.

  3. T52 Enryu HyperRescueRobot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...948 models later and it's Judgment Day!

    (Giant grippers crushing one of the few remaining
    human rebels):
    Please...stop..."rescuing"...me! Aaaaarrggghh!!!

  4. Hardly "fast-paced mechanized fighting action" by Fortunato_NC · · Score: 5, Funny
    3km/h! Even the useless walkers from Star Wars were faster than that. Imagine if these things were destoying Tokyo:

    Random Japanese Person 1: Aaaaaagh! The evil robots are coming!
    Random Japanese Person 2: It certainly does seem as if this is the end. They are only six kilometers from here!

    Time Passes

    Random Japanese Person 1: This is boring. Perhaps we should go to them.
    Random Japanese Person 2: My grandma could outrun these fucking evil robots. What a bunch of losers.

    More Time Passes

    Random Japanese Person 1: Do you realize we could have watched "Amelie" by now?
    Random Japanese Person 2: Yes, perhaps the evil robots are not ready for prime-time yet.

    Still More Time Passes

    Random Japanese Person 1: Well, I'm tired of waiting. I'm going to hop a bullet train for Kyoto and catch a baseball game.
    Random Japanese Person 2: I'm in. Those robots are still over a kilometer from here, and it looks like some kid just took one out with a "Red Ryder" BB gun.

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  5. Finding pilots by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If no whiny 14-year-olds are available to pilot it,

    Sure there are. Finding some that can pilot and are clinically insane, however, may take time.

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