Giant Robots (Mecha)

Over the decades, pop culture and science-fiction have given birth to many aspects of modern society, one of these is the personalized battle robot, made famous in the 60's and 70's by Japanese anime such as Gundam, Battle of the Planets, Macross saga, and more recently in the western world with shows like Power Rangers, Transformers, etc.
 The original concept, stems from western science fiction, the earliest mentions of such mechanical monsters coming from H.G. Wells' "war of the worlds", in which alien invaders launch their attack on the populace of earth using fantastical 3 legged mechanical beings.

Despite great leaps forward in computing and engineering capabilities, robotics technology still has some way to go before such technology is widely available for implementation, although japan seems to have already cornered the market on the industry, offering a wide variety of personal "mechs" already, ranging in price from $150, 000, to $1,500,000

such as;

The Children's "walker" Mech.

Created by Sakakibara Kikai,

The Children's walker Mech, has functional arms and upper body mobility, the legs however move by shuffling the feet of the robot, which are infact on wheels, capable of a top speed of about 0.5kmph













 
The Land Walker.

Constructed by Sakakibara Kikai, the Land walker is the second in their range of personal mechs, standing at 11foot tall, the Land walker is equiped with a 4" gattling gun, primed to fire multiple latex projectiles, and one high powered, water balloon firing canon. The land walker is fueled by a 250cc diesel engine, and has an average top speed of 1mph.











































The Kuratas Heavy Mech - Suidobashii Heavy Industries.

And last in the line of today's available giant robots, for the cool price of 1.5million dollars, is the Kuratas Heavy mech. Created by Suidobashi Heavy Industry the Kuratas Heavy mech is a Personal suburban tank. with a top speed of around 10kmph in the city and 15km on open even ground, the Kuratas Heavy Mech weighs just over 2 tonnes, is Equipped with 2 BB firing Gattling guns capable of unleashing upwards of 800 pellets in a minute, and an "eco friendly" rocket launcher that fires water-filled rockets.

The Kuratas is fully compatible with modern phones, computers and has 3 methods of control, the first being an automatic interface, utilising regular automotive control, while utilising this function, the kuratas is essentially in "safety" mode.

The second interface being manual control of the upper-body,via Controlsticks inside of the cockpit, the third method of control allows for the kuratas' On board computer to track your own movements via the cell-phone in your hands using motion sensor software.