kogoro kurata, a Japanese designer and artist, shows off the robotic creation he has dubbed Kuratas.

The 4-metric-ton, 4-metertall machine, built by Suidobashi Heavy Industry, can be piloted from the cockpitwhere Kurata is perchedor remotely from an iPhone. The combative robot, whose four wheeled legs allow it to go as fast as 10 kilometers per hour, shoots plastic bottles or BB pellets. Kuratas features a sensor system that locks onto a target before its twin Gatling guns together fire more than 6000 BB pellets per minute. Oddly, the firing frequency is determined by the pilots smile; the wider the operator smiles, the more rapidly the projectiles fly. This is no one-off project: Its creator says he plans to sell Kuratas units for US $1 million each.