Written by: Subhan Pradhan - 2023011, Grade IX
Posted on: 21 January, 2021
Humans have built many incredible things. Washing machines now take care of our clothing and we can even order food online directly from our fridge, a robot that knows how to cook different food but how cool it is for giant robots. From an anti-robot that could form part of a racing squad to a Russian robot that got fired.
Here are 3 of the most incredible giant robots in the world:
MK II Robot: Robot lovers and creators were well and truly in their element back in January 2015. Megabots partnered up with Autodesk and asked robot makers to create something extra special. But there was a catch, they had to design the armor paneling of miniature Megabots to show a final walking robot would look like, it also had to have reloading left arm cannon and would be shown off at the fair, the results were amazing the creators took the torso shell and right arm of the Megabot Mark II robot and turn it into a full-scale six-ton 15-foot tall robot. It wasn’t just to look pretty either it could drive, stand fire weapons from both arms and even twist its torso. When shown at the maker fair the Mark II robot was a hit. It fired paintball cannons at old cars.
Robot method 2: In 2017 Jeff Bezos got to play with a very expensive robot at amazon’s annual robotic conference, that very expensive robot was Method 2. It was developed and created by Hankook Murray technology, a firm from South Korea and it weighs a total of 1.6 tons. If that’s not eyebrow-raising enough then maybe its price tag will be. It started off costing around 3.96 million dollars the budget is well and truly blown out around 100 million dollars to be honest though we can think why it’s so expensive, it can walk, rotate in a circle, and is controlled remotely by robot engineers. But that's not all, it is the first manmade bipedal that can move 1.5 tons while managing the pilot’s movements, that means that if for example, the pilot moves his or her arm the robot will as well. But some refinement needs to happen before the robot will be let loose on the community. For now, it walks around like a toddler before it tumbles, so it has to be suspended from cables while out in public.
The prosthesis: This is a bit off-topic here but the prosthesis is not a robot but is pretty similar to a robot and probably equally smart. The prosthesis is what you’d call an anti-robot. It has a room for a human inside it and that human is responsible for all the movement of the robot/ anti-robot. But that does not mean it can’t do anything cool, it can tackle all types of terrain at top speeds of around 20 miles per hour and its battery is large enough to power it up to 2 hours. It also has a custom suspension system for a smooth ride and it’s 16.4 feet wide and 13.7 feet tall. It also weighs about 8,000 pounds. The company behind the prosthesis is called “Furion” and they have a big plan not just to build these Exo bionic mechs but to race them.
