Giant Avatar-style robot takes first steps in South Korea

Engineers in South Korea have tested a giant four-meter-tall humanoid robot.

Dec 28, 2016 · 05:52 GMT 1 min read

Engineers in South Korea have tested a giant four-meter-tall humanoid robot.

‘Method-2’ walks like human but makes the ground shake under its 1.5-ton weight. ‘Method-2’ is more than twice the size of a tall man and its metal arms each weigh 130 kilograms.

Engineers test a four-meter-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Technology in Gunpo, south of Seoul, on December 27, 2016. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie "Avatar" and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company. (Photo by AFP)

The Korean company has invested 200 million dollars in the project since 2014. The creators say the project's core achievement is not its enormous size, but is the technology they developed and enhanced along the way.

The robot will be ready for sale by the end of 2017 at a price of around 8.3 million dollars.