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Real Steel: unleash your inner robot pilot with Kuratas, the 4 tonnes iPhone-controlled warrior

Real Steel: unleash your inner robot pilot with Kuratas, the 4 tonnes iPhone-controlled warrior

Posted: 30 Jul 2012, 07:33, by Daniel P.

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Real Steel: unleash your inner robot pilot with Kuratas, the 4 tonnes iPhone-controlled warrior

A Japanese electronics company unveiled your largest, deadliest iPhone accessory yet at an expo over the weekend. You can be a robot pilot of Kuratas or control it with your iPhone via the 3G/4G network, and it is a 13 feet-high, 4.5 tonnes-heavy, 6, 600-ball-bearing-pellets-a-minute-shooting carnivore.

Best of all - those deadly shots can be triggered with a smile - your smile. Very quirky, and deserving a Hollywood movie episode of its own, as well as several shrink sessions for its creators.

The rideable Kuratas monster is, of course, meant for much more noble tasks besides shooting with its Gatling arm, like firefighting and cleaning debris. The robot is made by Suidobashi Heavy Industry and developed by Kōgorō Kurata, with the movements software for its hydraulic diesel-powered system done by Wataru Yoshizaki's robotic control software V-Sido.

In development since early 2010, Kuratas will run you about $1.3 million, depending on the trim and paint. We are not kidding, you can order this thing in various configurations from Suidobashi Heavy Industry at some point via the source link below. Enjoy the promo and control videos for Kuratas in the slideshow below, and dream of an Android control app as well, since what's more suiting than a little green robot controlling its deadly steel sidekick.

source: SuidobashiHeavyIndustry via TheGuardian

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1. ilia1986 posted on 30 Jul 2012, 07:40 8 0

Holy mother of awesomeness.

I want one!! LOL

I could take it to the Apple HQ and remodel the place. :D

2. andro. posted on 30 Jul 2012, 07:46 4 1

Holy f*ck this is scary,
Cylons,skynet etc!!

3. PhoneArenaUser posted on 30 Jul 2012, 07:56 3 0

Looks awesome, but talking about technologies I don't see nothing new in it.

4. kamil posted on 30 Jul 2012, 10:22 1 0

looks like our military soldiers is going to war with their iphones and nothing else

5. jmoita2 posted on 30 Jul 2012, 10:56 0 0

They already do, my friend...

Ever heard of drones???

6. jaytai0106 posted on 30 Jul 2012, 11:30 0 0

Simply bad ass!! I knew Japanese were making giant robot, now they finally start to sell middle size robot.

7. iami67 posted on 30 Jul 2012, 11:47 0 0

wait so im allowed to actually buy one of these lol im sure its ok if im driving down the street in one too right lol

8. Cyan3boN posted on 30 Jul 2012, 12:06 0 0

i hate wheeled robots

9. jmoita2 posted on 30 Jul 2012, 12:27 0 0

Bad ass... until I saw the wheels on the video...lol!!!

10. azafirster posted on 30 Jul 2012, 19:51 0 0

Wait another year or two, we'll start seeing drone gundam or macross fighters from japan as iphone acc.

11. sammy_saw posted on 31 Jul 2012, 02:11 0 0

Can we buy this robot ? I think the govt will ban it to the public , it like iron man

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