Hey! Do you have $650,000 to spend? Not interested in pissing away that cash on feeding a school full of kids lunch for a few years or helping a couple of families off the street? Then you, friendo, could soon find yourself riding around in your own giant, transformable mecha.
Based in Hangzhou City, China, Unitree offers a ton of different robots that can be used to surveil enrich the lives of a population. But they also make the glorious, albeit slightly awkward-looking GD01 Transforming Mecha Robot. Given that Unitree pretty much owns upwards of 70% of the world robotics/robotic components market, there's a pretty good chance that they know what they're doing. So, strapping yourself into this fast walking bad boy should be pretty safe. And if not, you're sitting inside a rollcage, so it's likely all good.
Unfortunately, at least for the time being, I don't think that there's any way to import a GD01 into North America. But hey, it's good to have a batshit crazy-looking dream, especially when that dream can knock over a cinderblock wall.
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