Behold the first recorded steps of South Korean firm Hankook Mirae Technology’s apparently real and fully functioning, 4m tall, 1.5 tonne, onboard-human-operated, bipedal, like-something-out-of-Avatar-looking mecha, METHOD-2.
South Korea robot: Designer insists massive Method-2 is real (CNN)
A 3m tall four-armed mecha suit made for WIRED by monster makers Stan Winston Studios and Legacy Effects (which created the Jaeger effects for Pacific Rim).
Premiered last month (with the help of Adam Savage) at San Diego Comic Con, (top) the second video shows a recent ‘walk test’ where the suit is being piloted by its creator Bruce D. Mitchell.
