CONSUMER MECHS

There's a YouTuber in China building a 66,000 pound humanoid robot that copies his body movements in real time. His name is Fan Shisan, a creator in Chungdo with a physics and chemistry background who spent years building things straight out of anime. Flying sword, a hoverboard made of blades, a robot arm heavier than a pickup truck that crushed a car on camera. His new project is on a different scale. The mech Jaeger, after the giant robots in Pacific Rim. Fan wears a motion capture suit and the robot mirrors his body in real time, scaling every small human movement into massive mechanical force. He moves his arm, 66,000 pounds moves with him. Building machines like this used to take a defense budget and a contract. Fan is funding it with a YouTube channel, which makes the investor and Unitree just started selling a rideable mech for $650,000. Giant robots are becoming a consumer category.