{"id":101591,"date":"2020-01-29T19:04:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T03:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/japan-is-building-a-giant-gundam-robot-that-can-walk"},"modified":"2020-01-29T19:04:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T03:04:42","slug":"japan-is-building-a-giant-gundam-robot-that-can-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/japan-is-building-a-giant-gundam-robot-that-can-walk","title":{"rendered":"Japan Is Building a Giant Gundam Robot That Can Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wdYO_z5sEG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Japan is constructing an 18-meter-tall, 25-ton Gundam robot powered by a combination of electric and hydraulic actuators.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Japan has had a robust robot culture for decades, thanks (at least in part) to the success of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gundam\">Gundam<\/a> series, which are bipedal humanoid robots controlled by a human who rides inside of them. I would tell you how many different TV series and video games and manga there are about Gundam, but I\u2019m certain I can\u2019t count that high\u2014there\u2019s like seriously a lot of Gundam stuff out there. One of the most visible bits of Gundam stuff is a real life full-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/giant-gundam-robot\">Gundam statue in Tokyo<\/a>, but who really wants a <em>statue<\/em>, right? C\u2019mon, Japan! Bring us the real thing!<\/p>\n<p>Gundam Factory Yokohama, which is a Gundam Factory in Yokohama, is constructing an 18-meter-tall, 25-ton Gundam robot. The plan is for the robot to be fully actuated using a combination of electric and hydraulic actuators, achieving \u201cGundam-like movement\u201d with its 24 degrees of freedom. This will include the ability to walk, which has already been simulated by the University of Tokyo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/\">JSK Lab<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>As we all know, simulation is pretty much just as good as reality, which is good because so far simulation is all we have of this robot, including these 1\/30 scale models of the robot and the docking and maintenance facility that will be built for it:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is constructing an 18-meter-tall, 25-ton Gundam robot powered by a combination of electric and hydraulic actuators. Japan has had a robust robot culture for decades, thanks (at least in part) to the success of the Gundam series, which are bipedal humanoid robots controlled by a human who rides inside of them. I would tell [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}