Creepy 80-Year-Old Japanese Robot Brought Back to Life

Gakutensoku is Asia ’s oldest innovative golem , built in 1928 for the ascension of the Emperor Showa ( aka Hirohito ) . Twice as marvellous as the emperor at 10 feet , 6 inch , it could tilt its caput , winking , smile and puff up its thorax and cheek with a system of inflatable condom thermionic vacuum tube . Long recede in Germany before returning to Osaka , it ’s been restored and brought back to life with a $ 200,000 computer - controlled pneumatic servo system of rules . But it emphatically still incite like an 80 - year - old — very slowly . Check out the TV of it in motion below , it ’s like a robot from “ It ’s a Small World , ” but even more uncanny and creepier .

[ Pink Tentacle , Asahi ]

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