Japanese tech company Suidobashi Heavy Industry has released the KURATAS robotic suit making us all one step closer to Gundam-style technology. KURATAS is the first giant boarding-robot, which is about four meters height (about 13 feet tall). Piloted by humans, it’s got the most advanced control system with the AE “V-Sido”. Not only can you operating KURATAS in the cockpit, but you can also enable controls and interaction with Kinect. You can operate it easily without taking a professional training such as a combat plane. Additionally, you can control KURATAS via the mobile 3G Internet access.

Personalization and customization is available for your unit. Whether it’s holding a squirt gun like fire fighter, painting a body camouflage like ranger in jungle, giving a mop and a cleaner like home cleaning robot, it’s really up to you. KURATAS can also be armed with a multi-rocket launcher that fires plastic rockets filled with compressed water or two Gattling cannons that can shoot a about 6,000 plastic BBs per minute when you smile.

SPECS
Height : about 4,000 mm
Width: about 3,000 mm
Length : about 4,000 mm
Weight : about 4,500 kg
Control system : AE V-sido

Rumored price tag is $1.3 million.

KURATAS robotic suit by Suidobashi Heavy Industry

Instructional video for KURATAS robotic suit by Suidobashi Heavy Industry

During one Asian American’s freshman year at UC Berkeley, he set out to create the most ridiculously automated dorm room in the school ever. Three months and several hundred dollars later, Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm (BRAD) has been completed! With a motion detector, a wireless remote, a mobile app, a tablet, a motorized curtain, and voice control, this guy managed to build something very unique that all college students would clamor for. When all the pieces are assembled, BRAD can now turn lights on, sleep mode, homework mode, romantic mode, and of course, emergency party mode. Party mode has strobe lights, fog machine, and more. Time to hit that button.

Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm (BRAD)