Design Festa just wrapped up (May 16-17 at Tokyo Big Sight), and one of the impressive bits to come from there was a tachikoma -- the robots from the Ghost in the Shell anime -- large enough to fit a person inside of it. The creator, Mr. Kougei, can pilot the thing from a joystick and controller that is powered by four motors for the legs.

HobbyMedia is going to be interviewing the man soon, hopefully, and so I look forward to reading the google-translated version of it all. We'll be sure to pull more from that interview once it happens, or once Mr. Kougei decides to put up a website for the tachikoma project, like many Festa attendees do with their works. At least that I can stumble through reading. Be sure to check out HobbyMedia for more photos from the event of this marvelous creation.