This Robot Is Huge and No One Knows Why It Was Built

Science-obsessed site Phys.org reports some details on this Avatar-like robot unveiled in South Korean this week.

• Named Method-2
• Stands 13-feet tall, weighs 1.5 tons
• Created by South Korean robotics company Hankook Mirae Technology
• Designed by special effects expert Vitaly Bulgarov, who has worked on movies like Transformer, Robocop and Terminator
• Company chairman Yang Jin-Ho has invested $200 million in the project to “bring to life what only seemed possible in movies and cartoons”
• Yang says he intends to sell it by the end of 2017 for approximately $8.3 million

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The team who built it admits that they don’t know what it will be used for, but looking at, we’d say it will do anything it damn well wants.