13-foot, 4.5 ton remote controlled gun-toting robot. What could possibly go wrong?

Those crazy Japanese....

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Japanese launch 4.5-tonne gun-toting robot controlled by smartphone
Kuratas is 4 metres high and capable of firing 100 rounds a second – or even working as a cleaner or firefighter

Kuratas is launched at the Wonder festival in Tokyo Link to this video
It is 4 metres (13ft) high, weighs 4.5 tonnes and fires 6,000 ball-bearing pellets a minute, yet this ¥100m (£816,000) monster could be Robomop as well as RoboCop.

The massive robot, called Kuratas, is controlled either by a human pilot in a mid-torso cockpit or by a smartphone connected to a 3G network, and was unveiled at the Wonder festival in Tokyo on Monday.

The diesel-powered machine could, it was claimed, be used as a trundling "ecofriendly" weapons system (top speed 6.2mph) – or customised for more peaceful functions such as firefighting or cleaning, according to designers at Suidobashi Heavy Industry.

Just take care while dusting ...

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