Video in the link.Ladies and gentlemen, the future, is now.
More than 20 years after Transformers landed onto your childhood TV screens, the robots in disguise may now dwell among us.
A Turkish company called Letvision has released a series of videos depicting BMW coupe that unfolds into a giant, moving robot, Yahoo Tech reported. Letvision claims the prototype, reportedly designed over eight months by a team of 16 engineers and technicians, moves by remote control.
The prototype is called “Letrons.”
In the video, a remote operator apparently drives the car through a lot before it slowly transforms into a humanoid robot with a turning head, moving fingers and a dramatic fog effect.
The company said a walking functionality wasn’t programmed into this version of Letrons, Yahoo reported.
While this robot in disguise doesn’t leap and fight like the CGI ones in Michael Bay movies, the footage is fascinating nonetheless.
According to Gizmodo, Letvision plans to sell a complete line of the giant toy robots, which will all transform from BMW models.
As with anything seen online, Gizmodo’s Andrew Liszewski questioned whether the footage was real, but noted that the robot’s jerky and imperfect motions, paired with footage of it from multiple angles, appeared authentic.
There’s “certainly a billionaire or two out there who’d be happy to buy one of these for their kids,” he said.
Its pretty cool, but I wonder how they does it actually make money for said company.
