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One story filed under monster truck on Spoot: Spotted Early. The newest of them: “This 13-foot mecha wants the jobs too dangerous for you”. A Beijing company just dropped a 13-foot hydraulic-electric humanoid that stands as tall as a monster truck and can still move with precision finer than a hair's width. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every monster truck story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.

This 13-foot mecha wants the jobs too dangerous for you
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This 13-foot mecha wants the jobs too dangerous for you

A Beijing company just dropped a 13-foot hydraulic-electric humanoid that stands as tall as a monster truck and can still move with precision finer than a hair's width. It wants the jobs too dangerous for you, the heavy lifting, the toxic environments, the tasks that grind down human bodies. This is not a render. It is not a concept. It is a machine built for work, and it makes me wonder how long before we stop calling these things "robots" and start calling them coworkers. The engineering is genuinely wild: hydraulic power for strength, electric control for finesse, and a scale that forces you to look up.