2009
04.20
04.20
If you were wondering why France was sending giant robot spiders to Japan, well, this is probably why…
Hopefully it is to fight each other, and not to team up.
Designed and built by an Ibaraki man in his garage over the course of eleven years, the “Kabutom MX-03? looks like a prop from a Power Rangers spin-off but is an actual working vehicle.
Shaped like a kabuto-mushi (rhinocerous beetle, a favorite design of Japanese toymakers and, uh, candymakers), it can be remote controlled or piloted from the cockpit (visible on the left side), and is capable of carrying passengers inside its shell. Japanprobe