Japan's giant human-piloted, humanoid Gundam-style robots are neat and everything, but … why walk if you can roll on four wheels? That's what the Archax does, transforming between robot and vehicle ...

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Fresh from its defeat in women’s World Cup soccer, Japan wants to take on the U.S. once again—in giant robot combat. Suidobashi Heavy Industry has agreed to a challenge from Boston-based MegaBots that ...

A Tokyo-based robot manufacturer is selling a pilotable mecha robot that looks like it came straight out of Mobile Suit Gundam (or Patlabor if you’re really cool) for a whopping $3 million. Archax, ...

Japan is building a massive humanoid robot modeled after those in the “Gundam” sci-fi franchise. The robot will be a replica of RX-78-2 Gundam, the samurai-inspired mecha introduced in the original ...

Engineers in Japan have been hard at work building a gigantic, 60-foot humanoid robot modeled after those in the “Gundam” sci-fi franchise. And while construction of the robot has slowed due to the ...

Did they agree upon a common framework in an effort to level the playing field? If not, it would be a lot less interesting, I mean if Japan's Kurata is only equipped with the original BB guns while ...