Mech robot enters production in Japan

A Tokyo-based start-up has designed a 4.5m-tall limbed robot resembling those featured in a cult anime series, with potential uses for disaster relief or in the space industry


ARCHAX (after avian dinosaur archaeopteryx) 

Head

Cockpit hatch

Emergency stop button


Tsubame Industries CEO Ryo Yoshida (right), 25, and his nine employees want to build limited run of five Archax robots, which come in range of five colours and retail for $3m each


INSPIRATION

Mobile Suit Gundam: Japanese anime series, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, about boy called Amuro Ray, who pilots RX-78 Gundam mech (above)


MODES 
4m
3 
2 
1 
0

Weight: 3.5 tonnes

Robot mode (front/side)

Can travel at 10km/h

Direction of travel

Vehicle mode


Sources: Reuters, Tsubame Industries 
Pictures: Tsubame, Bandai Namco 
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