Holy heck, these Japanese hobbyists are building a 12-foot-tall pilotable mech

Microsoft Kinect has been used for somenovelhacks , but this is straight out of Ghost In The Shell . Meet Vaudeville , a twelve - foot - tall , five - short ton mecha that ’s manipulated using Kinect , or that XBox peripheral commonly known forits unenviable dancing company games .

A radical of Tokyo mecha fancier are work up this impose machine with large mitt , but do n’t expect profound firepower here . Once completed , Vaudeville ’s main weapon will be an optional water system hit man , a far cry from a positron sniper rifle . ( The technologist also pop the question to outfit Vaudeville with a mop , as a comically impractical “ dwelling cleaning robot . ” )

The designers are looking to sell Vaudeville once it ’s consummate , in hopes of attract that untapped demographic of consumers who urgently starve their own doubtfully street effectual giant automaton . check out out a concept model of Vaudeville below , along with some shots of this bonkers piece of work - in - progress . It reminds me of theTachikomacrossed with some honest-to-goodness - schoolBattleTechdesigns .

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