DIY Battle Bot? All You Need Is $742 Million and No Sense of Reality!

(wired) -- Kids don't care about robotics anymore. At least, that's what Takayuki Furuta fears. So, to boost his field's appeal, the director of the Future Robotics Technology Center in Chiba, Japan, figured out how to make a real-life, six-story-tall Gundam, the classic battle robot from Japanese anime. full story