Originally published March 10 2005
Robotic dinosaurs to greet visitors to World Exposition in Japan
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Two robotic dinosaur replicas created by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology will greet visitors to the upcoming World Exposition in Aichi, Japan. The dinosaurs can walk at about one kilometer per hour, are 3.5 meters in length, and weigh about 85 kilograms apiece. The dinosaurs also have the ability to scream.
Two dinosaurs which lived in North America 70 million years ago have come back to roam the world, albeit in a much easier-to-handle size, compliments of Japanese scientists.
Robot replicas Tyrannosaurus rex and Parasaurolophus, capable of strolling one kilometre an hour, will greet visitors at the six-month World Exposition which opens this month in the central Aichi region.
Evoking a scene from the movie Jurassic Park, the Expo site will ring with screams from the dinosaurs.
Organisers will air noises on the speaker system, as the robots' own voices are not expected to be loud enough for a large crowd.
"It is fun to watch the robuts because they look so real," said Masatoshi Otake, a spokesman for the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
The institute and another body funded by the Japanese state, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development, jointly developed the dinosaur robots, which took one year and 180 million yen to build.
While the robots are made in proportion to their prehistoric inspirations, they are much smaller.
The 3.5-metre-long T-Rex robot weighs about 87 kilograms with a height of 1.5 metres, compared with its prehistoric inspiration which was 14 metres long and weighed five tons.
The Parasaurolophus robot is 3.5 metres long, 1.6 metres high and weighs about 85 kilograms, much lighter than the real dinosaur's 4.5 tons.
The Expo, an international showcase of technology and innovation which Japan expects to draw 15 million visitors, will be open between March 25 and September 25 in Aichi, some 250 kilometres west of Tokyo.
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