Sakakibara Machinery Works Co., a Japanese robotics company, has just revealed a new, giant, functional robot-suit (or mech) which appears torn from the pages of Gundam manga.

With mech anime franchises such as Mobile Suit Gundam, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Code Geass coming straight out of Japan, the country has seen its fair share of real life statues created to ...

This new statue is unlike any you have seen before. The team behind Japan’s new RX-78-2 mech suit designed the behemoth to move, and the engineers just took a major step towards success.

The V-fins on various Gundam mobile suits is a good example of this influence, as is the iconic faceguards that mimic these types of classic samurai armor. Not to mention that many mecha wield a ...