A South Korean company is working with a former Starcraftconcept artist to create a real-life giant robot - and it's already got a working prototype.
Korea Future Technology has designed and built the METHOD-1 mecha - a bipedal robot that's fully articulated, capable of movement, and houses a human pilot.
Its arms appear to be controlled by the pilot, with motions in the cockpit mirrored in METHOD-1's arm movements. The giant robot also has individual fingers, offering dexterity for more precise tasks.
The robot has been part designed by Vitaly Bulgarov, an artist who has worked on Blizzard games including Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, World of Warcraft, and Diablo III, and movies such a Transformers: Age of Extinction and Terminator Genisys.
Bulgarov has been working with Korea Future Technology on the project since 2014. In November 2015, following a visit to South Korea, he wrote on Facebook that "as we move forward with it, I'll be refining the aesthetics of both the underneath framework, the exterior shelling as well as cockpit design and ergonomics. There will be a ton of things that will get improved both from mechanical engineering and industrial design standpoint."
