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News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:27 am

As the new year has already started in some parts of the world - Oz-based site admin Burn was the first to notice 2017 arriving in our community - we have news of another new arrival in robotic form: actual robots (well, robotic suits) from a South Korean robotics group, designed for emergency response. As CNN reports, designers used cues from Transformers and Terminator live action movie franchises, though there are some glimpses of Aliens, Avatar and more mech-suits out there.

Check out the embedded clip below, and prepare to welcome our new robot overlords in 2017!

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:38 am

come on then Hasbro, start making us Transformer suits.

News Credits: 90 · by **Tyrannacon** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 11:32 am

Now if they work on consciousness transfer method and make it a war-like robot body that can transform into stuffs, like a tank, then I'll have my future plans for me.

Bleh. I'll keep dreaming.

by **shocksound96** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 11:33 am

If they keep this up we might have mobile suit Gundams by 2025

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 1:59 pm

Seriously they beeped best line aliens typical kora, china, Japan would make these suits first before us

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 3:10 pm

Looks like the mechs from avatar, i want one

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 4:20 pm

Megatron Wolf wrote:Looks like the mechs from avatar, i want one

It's based on the suit from Avatar, the guy that designed it only worked on the Transformers movies.

Emerje

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 7:41 pm

Cameron directed films like Aliens 2 and Avatar. I don't recall any Terminator looking like this. Not even in "Salvation"

by **Microraptor** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 8:23 pm

Give it some guns and my dreams will have been realized!

by **TimothyR** » Sun Jan 01, 2017 1:41 am

This doesn't look transformers inspired at all. Avatar? Absolutely.. transformers? Nope.

News Credits: 1 · by **Duke of Luns** » Sun Jan 01, 2017 10:47 am

Love it

. Disaster response and construction is something practical I could see these being used for somewhere down the road, and I'm all for it.

Let's keep guns and rocket launchers off of these though. There's already far to many ways to kill people as is.

by **Ultra Markus** » Sun Jan 01, 2017 5:39 pm

it moves kind of awkward swaying side to side looks a bit top heavy like it might tip over easily :???:

News Credits: 23 · by **Madeus Prime** » Sun Jan 01, 2017 7:56 pm

One step closer! C'mon Japan!

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sun Jan 01, 2017 9:34 pm

Madeus Prime wrote:One step closer! C'mon Japan!

Walking is still a ways off, but battling is coming very soon.

And yes, this is a real thing, USA vs. Japan.

Emerje

News Credits: 3 · by **Starsaber468** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 1:58 am

Lovely how many comparisons there have been made with this spawn8ng from transformers, gundam, and terminator there have been when honestly considering the size this is basically votoms in real life the size fits as well as the shape of the cockpit