Mecha mania: Visitors admiring the 18m-tall Gundam robot at the Gundam factory in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture. — AFP
TOKYO: An 18m “Gundam” robot that can walk and move its arms was unveiled in Japan amid hopes that it will help invigorate tourism hit by Covid-19.
The giant robot is modelled after a figure in Mobile Suit Gundam, a Japanese cartoon that was first launched in the late 1970s about enormous battle robots piloted by humans.
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