Archax (robot)

2023: Product Announcement

In early October 2023, it became known that the Tokyo startup Tsubame Industries developed a giant robot called Archax. It took about two years to create a machine approximately 4.5 meters high.

The robot is named after Archaeopteryx - an extinct late Jurassic vertebrate. The look of Archax is inspired by the popular television anime series Mobile Suit Gundam in Japan. The design includes four lower supports with wheels, a massive body, manipulator arms and a kind of head. Archax is controlled by a person who is inside a special compartment in the robot's torso.

Archax

In the cockpit there are monitors, the image of which is displayed from external cameras. You can control the movements of the machine using special manipulators in the form of joysticks: you can move your hands and hands, maneuver and perform other actions. There are two operating modes - vertical robot mode and motion mode. In the second case, the wheelbase expands, as a result of which the height of Archax decreases: in this version, the machine is able to move at speeds up to 10 km/h. The robot weighs approximately 3.5 tons.

Japan is very good at animation, games, robots and cars, so I thought it would be great if I could create a product that brings all these elements together into one, "said Ryo Yoshida, 25-year-old chief executive of Tsubame Industries.

Yoshida plans to build and sell five machines for wealthy fans of robots and anime: the cost of each copy will be $3 million. The head of Tsubame Industries hopes that in the future, robots based on Archax will be used for disaster relief, in the space industry and in other areas.^[1]

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