$724,310,000 Gundam

Yep according to a Japanese research group that would be the cost to make a real Gundam. Holy crap!

Robots Will Build High Rises By 2010. Oh God What Have We Done?

“The ministry says it is going ahead with the process of applying the technology to nuts-and-bolts building projects. It will create a construction process almost totally automated, taking advantage of 12 high-tech patents including so-called “intelligent” cranes and the world’s first bolt-tightening robots.”

Can we have cranes with faces and emotion by 2020 please?

Wooden Wind-up Doll Serves 4 Cups Of Tea

The group showed off their latest and greatest wooden wind up dolls recently in Japan and holy crap is the main doll weird. It’s made to look kind of like a woman but at the same time shows all the wooden gears within that let the “server” move around. If I ever woke up to that thing serving me tea you can pretty much expect it to be obliterated as the only place I’d ever expect to see one of these is in a nightmare.

Other cool dolls on display included a ninja that could climb stairs and a tiny boat with a captain who rowed it around. See them all at .