Pen^3 wrote:

> Eva Prototype on Slashdot, well, sort of...
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/11/1415245
> 
> "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)."
> 
> 
> P^3

As commented on Slashdot... one wonders how this could be a rescue robot 
without crushing the people in need of saving!

Still, very cool. I wonder how fast those arms can move, though, and how 
long before Asimo or one of the other humanoids gets scaled up to 
something this size.

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