{"id":2260,"date":"2012-07-30T11:58:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:54:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:54:23","slug":"real-life-japanese-mech-robot-fires-bbs-with-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2012\/07\/30\/real-life-japanese-mech-robot-fires-bbs-with-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life Japanese Mech Robot Fires BBs With A Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/07\/30\/real-life-japanese-mech-robot-fires-bbs-with-a-smile\/\">Tech Crunch<\/a><br \/>\nBy:John Briggs<br \/>\nJuly 30, 2012<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2iZ0WuNvHr8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>gadgets<br \/>\nComment<br \/>\n12<br \/>\ninShare16<br \/>\nReal Life Japanese Mech Robot Fires BBs With A Smile<br \/>\nJohn Biggs<br \/>\nposted 4 hours ago<br \/>\n12 Comments<\/p>\n<p>The Kuratas Mecha robot is an art\/aspirational nerd project by Suidobashi Heavy Industry. This full-sized Mech robot features a ride-in cockpit, \u201crocket\u201d launchers, and a \u201csmile controlled\u201d BB Gatling gun. That\u2019s right: when you smile, this thing unleashes thousands of tiny plastic BBs.<\/p>\n<p>Unveiled at Wonder Fest 2012 in Tokyo, you can control the robot with either a set of master-slave joysticks or using a more fluid Kinect interface. It runs something called the V-SIDO (Bushido) OS and includes touchscreen support inside the cockpit as well as 3G wireless connectivity so you can control it via phone.<\/p>\n<p>You can \u201cprice out\u201d your own Mech here but rest-assured you won\u2019t be able to drive one of these off the lot any time soon. It\u2019s a one-off project and, as cool as it is, it only moves at about 10KM per hour.<\/p>\n<p>There are some who are suggesting this is CG but considering the AFP\/Getty picked up some photos of it, it looks about as real as you can get.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8xxEfA_orUw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Tech Crunch By:John Briggs July 30, 2012 gadgets Comment 12 inShare16 Real Life Japanese Mech Robot Fires BBs With A Smile John Biggs posted 4 hours ago 12 Comments The Kuratas Mecha robot is an art\/aspirational nerd project by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2012\/07\/30\/real-life-japanese-mech-robot-fires-bbs-with-a-smile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}