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The 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushes

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

https://youtu.be/FvgoDMaThGg Looks like they improved on it since its announcement two years ago. It's pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It looks quite nice, industrial machines tend to look ugly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The mech wars are coming, aren't they?!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

can be fitted with blades or paint brushes

Cool, so the robot war will either be Sekiro or Splatoon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And Japan is clearly going to win.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Unless the kaiju take notice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"it is the 31st century and mankind, is once again, at war. The battlefields of the future are dominated by huge robotic war machines known as BattleMechs. Piloting these awesome weapons of war are men and women, the elite of the elite, knowing that each battle could be their last.

They are....MechWarriors."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

These are the sort of things that ought to be automated. It'll be interesting to see how Japan handles their demographic crisis going forwards. If they manage it without significantly increased migration, that'll be a standard for the rest of the developed world to follow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Johnny 5...thousand!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We're getting closer to the Patlabor future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah but wouldn't you rather have an Evangelion future? sure mech cops are neat but how about giant mechs that aren't really mechs and are actually your mom that you can stick a tube in and pilot? you don't want to pilot a giant cyborg of your mother?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I for one would stick a tube in and pilot your mom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Is this how the robocalypse begins?