Toyota's new mobility suit

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 3:53 pm 0

http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/news/04/1203_1d.html

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:11 pm 0

MECHA!

Stone

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:17 pm 0

Stone wrote:MECHA!

Stone

I was gonna say that.

What I want to know is: where's the machine guns and rocket launchers?

PurpleChair · Post by **PurpleChair** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:19 pm 0

Yeah, needs some kind of personal* defence** system.

*civic
**destruction

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:20 pm 0

PurpleChair wrote:Yeah, needs some kind of personal* defence** system.

*civic
**destruction

Also - what happens if it falls over?

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:20 pm 0

Cool! The future's starting to happen

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:25 pm 0

Its about blasted time!

PurpleChair · Post by **PurpleChair** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:28 pm 0

IronGiant wrote:
PurpleChair wrote:Yeah, needs some kind of personal* defence** system.

*civic
**destruction
Also - what happens if it falls over?

Judging from the design, I imagine it'd just curl into a ball and roll back onto it's feet...

They should make some kind of Morph Ball mode, for high speed movementness.

~D4T45H4T~ · Post by **~D4T45H4T~** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:36 pm 0

Like This?

http://www.clowder.net/hop/curlups/curlups.html

kel · Post by **kel** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:44 pm 0

Looks like an elephant walking on its hind legs, with a man for a belly.

cclemon · Post by **cclemon** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 5:26 pm 0

Cool!

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 5:29 pm 0

I'd love to know how long it can wander about like that for. The USA were offering huge bounties for workable mecha designs (ie, they'd last a while [probably petrol/diesel power] and be able to carry weaponry and a huge amount of armour) so it'd be interesting to see whether Toyota have been chasing this up as well.

If it's electric (which it looks to be...) then I don't see it working for too long between charges, and it's not too speedy either...still, it's bastard cool

Stone

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 5:44 pm 0

Umm, so is there a vid of it in action?

LinkoVitch · Post by **LinkoVitch** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:21 am 0

Hmmm so could we get battles between these and tooled up segways?

that would be both funny and cool

NB : Just looked at the link, like the way the interior looks like that of a car

gearstick and door handles that wouldn't look amiss inside a car acting as controls!

dtj · Post by **dtj** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:35 am 0

The one on the left, or the one on the right?