A giant 60-foot Japanese robot has taken its first steps… kind of.
Construction of the huge robot, which is based of the ever-popular Gundam robot that was introduced in 1979 in Yoshiyuki Tomino’s and Sunrise’s anime series Mobile Suit Gundam, began back in January.
While the ongoing pandemic halted many construction projects, the real-life Gundam robot has still managed to make headway.
The robot is a whopping 25 tonnes in weight, with each of its 6.5 foot long hands weighing 1,300 pounds alone. It also has fully articulating fingers.
In a video shared in July, you can see construction workers circling the large robot on a crane. The robot can then be seen moving its upper body forwards and backwards before making an attempt at walking.
While the bot didn’t actually move, from a distance (and with one eye closed), it looks like it did.
Twitter user @yoshi115t has been giving updates on the real-life robot’s progress, and was pretty excited at it almost taking its first steps.
