Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots." He has been writing about Japanese culture and technology for a decade. E-mail Tim.
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47 years later, Transformers still owes everything to Diaclone
One mecha anime designer was an unsung hero of the industry, having been influenced by Gundam before working on both Macross ...
Fresh from its defeat in women’s World Cup soccer, Japan wants to take on the U.S. once again—in giant robot combat. Suidobashi Heavy Industry has agreed to a challenge from Boston-based MegaBots that ...
Tsubame is Japanese startup, with CEO 25-year-old inventor Ryo Yoshida, that is making real life giant mech robots. The robots are 15-feet-tall and weigh around 3.5 tons. They will sell giant mechs ...
Did they agree upon a common framework in an effort to level the playing field? If not, it would be a lot less interesting, I mean if Japan's Kurata is only equipped with the original BB guns while ...
A Tokyo-based robot manufacturer is selling a pilotable mecha robot that looks like it came straight out of Mobile Suit Gundam (or Patlabor if you’re really cool) for a whopping $3 million. Archax, ...
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44 years later, this 1980s sci-fi franchise is still the most underrated mecha anime ever
Remixing the genre that Gundam built, Macross is still a unique, eclectic Real Robot anime franchise that influenced ...
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