Kuratas: In the giant robot garage (pictures)

Kuratas is Japanese metal wizard Kogoro Kurata's latest giant robot creation. Shown off over the weekend outside Tokyo, it's a 13-foot colossus that rolls on four wheels. Thankfully for the citizens of the capital, its weapons aren't real; it's described as an art project.

Kuratas weighs more than four tons and has many moving parts. A flatbed truck is required to haul it around.

Kuratas seems to have various mock weapons like a "LOHAS loader" and multi-barrel machine guns. Nerf missiles not included.

A lot of engineering, along with months of work, went into building Kuratas.

This promo poster for the recent Wonder Festival shows the scale of Kuratas.

Kurata is known for creating a full-scale model of a Scopedog mecha from the 1980s series Votoms. It can be seen in the background of this shot of Kuratas in production.

This shot of an unpainted, half-finished Kuratas shows the complex machinery under the exoskeleton.

What's it like to cruise around in Kuratas? You might be able to find out once the project is complete, as the website promises to launch sales.