Chinese origins: A transformer-like sculpture designed by Sun Shiqian at his studio in Beijing. (Below - Sun posing in front of his roomy warehouse on the outskirts of Beijing. — AFP
BEIJING: In the suburbs of China’s capital, a 32-year-old engineer creates the kind of larger-than-life, shapeshifting robots that most have only seen in Transformers movies.
Sun Shiqian’s roomy warehouse on the outskirts of Beijing houses a hulking menagerie, from a sleepy cow to a fiery metal dragon that stands 4.9m tall at the flip of a switch.
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