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A Real Transformer?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the did-he-flip-me-off-in-there dept.

mshiltonj writes "This is a video of real robot tranforming from a vehicle to a biped and back to a vehicle. It's some Japanese technology demonstration." Rumor is the next version will be a red semi + trailor and will be much more than meets the eye.

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  1. Mirrordot by Ghandalfar · · Score: 2, Informative

    If site feels slow for you can use MirrorDot's mirror: http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/f986df67693210ca5 2ffd491d5af6a68/index.html

  2. Here is another link by technoextreme · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/02/5351/
    Quite frankly. Im not impressed.

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  3. Re:Nice but ... by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Japanese fixation on robots runs deep and many mecha series (like the Yuusha (Brave) series) are all based on transformable mecha. If you think of how useful it could be in some situations it does make sense though.

    Lets say you're in a destroyed city area. Trying to get around on wheels would be difficult in some situations (large walls and such), transforming you could climb over them.

    They could also develope this into a plane, so when it lands it could transform and dock in a hanger instead of holding run way space. Or give it a large gun and have a military vechile.

    Lots of uses for transformable mecha, just got to look at how ineffective our little boxs on wheels are.

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  4. Re:This is a video of real robot tranforming from by lordkuri · · Score: 5, Informative

    yup

    link

  5. The QRIO dancing robot music video by technoextreme · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://www.mp3.com/albums/20003800/summary.html Yowser.... It's a sad day when robots can outdance human beings.

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  6. Re:Lame. It's a freaking toy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, not every can go and make such things else we would have seem them already. They have been drawn for many many years, but nothing has been actually built. It is hard to get the parts in the right place and to have it balance itself etc etc etc.

    These 'toys' have a strong practical commerical future. High road speed robots than can climb over rough terrain if needed. Weapons systems. Helpers.

    Please go fetch your Lego and build one for all of us on /. and give the plans too.

    my $0.02

  7. Coral Cache Link by m0RpHeus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a mirror (Coral Cache).

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  8. Not sure (alt. mirror?) by shoptroll · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not sure if this is the same site that the article links to (since the link in the article seems to be /.ed), but this was posted in Seibertron.com a couple days ago:

    http://robot-fan.net/spot/spot067.html

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  9. Re:The *other* kind of transformer. by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's actually called an Isolation Transformer.

  10. Re:The French were there first. by Mad_Rain · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh Snap! Voltron just got served!

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