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A Turkish Company Is Building Real-World Transformers

• http://motherboard.vice.com, by LEIF JOHNSON

Oh, and they can do the whole changing from a 2013 BMW to an upright robot bit. That's pretty cool, too.

But of course there's a catch. Each of the four available Transformers (which Letvision gave the copyright-friendly name of "Letrons") has a functional steering wheel, but you can only "drive" them remotely because Letvision stuffed the seating spaces with the hydraulics and electronics needed for the conversion. (And since you'd be stuck staring straight up at the sky, being inside during the moment of transformation probably isn't the best of ideas.)

It can't even walk, although Letvision points out that this could change provided "reasonable funding is provided for a new research and development project."


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