Giant Robot Taking Over Detroit
The giant robot taking over Detroit. Okay, it’s actually the Hudson building – but you tell me that it doesn’t look like a giant robot (nice catch to our friends…
DETROIT, MI – AUGUST 13: A general view of the Detroit skyline and the Renaissance Center on August 13, 2014 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)
The giant robot taking over Detroit. Okay, it's actually the Hudson building - but you tell me that it doesn't look like a giant robot (nice catch to our friends at Daily Detroit!)
The giant robot taking over Detroit? Wait...we've already got a giant robot statue in Detroit. Somewhere. Remember the Robocop statue? We went to see it a couple of years ago - still waiting to see if it actually turns up in Eastern Market. Why don't they sell it to a local movie chain who'd LOVE to put it in their lobby? Hmmmmm.....
Back in June this is what we were told -
It’s been a long time coming – but we finally know where the RoboCop statue is going to be – at Eastern Market. Now we don’t know EXACTLY where it’ll be…but our buddy Brandon Walley told the Detroit Free Press:
“It’s going to be displayed very prominently in Eastern Market, which already is an amazing center for public art,” said Brandon Walley, a Detroit filmmaker and a key part of the grassroots quest to make the RoboCop statue.
Of course if you're looking that perfect robot loving person - there's always this:
A company in Japan has created a 15-foot, four-wheeled robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam", which is similar to what you'd recognize as a character from Hasbro's "Transformers".
And they're hoping to be able to sell them . . . for $3 MILLION.
It's a giant robot, and you can climb in and pilot it around. There are 26 different joints you can control from the cockpit, and it can also just "drive" down a street.
(To be clear, "Transformers" and "Gundam" are two different things. "Transformers" were living robots from another world. "Mobile Suits" are weapons USED by characters. This is the latter.)
