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Imagine the reactions you would get walking the streets of your neighbourhood in this robot/mecha vehicle from Sakakibara Kikai (too bad I can’t read Japanese well). It might be slow and won’t beat the traffic jams (unless you stomp all the cars), but it will definitely get you some attention. I would seriously imagine something like this will be useful outside the city, like exploration or navigating difficult terrains. If I made this, I would equip it with GPS and all sorts of navigation and communication devices you can imagine, plus a powerful computer and an efficient power source. Well, someone else actually made another kind of mecha, with flame throwers, no less, and is trying to sell it on eBay to fund their next mecha prototype.

I predict that before the year 2040 people like you and me could own this kind of robots, and some of the robots from animes I watched since I was a kid, or at least some of their features, would come to reality.

Update: Another mecha that looks like Gundam