Elon Musk wants to build a giant fighting robot

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Elon Musk wants to build a giant fighting robot

People speculated that he is planning to build a robot after his tweets on the Japanese animation titles.

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Published: Tue 16 Oct 2018, 12:54 PM

Last updated: Tue 16 Oct 2018, 3:00 PM

Billionaire Elon Musk, business tycoon and investor, revealed he is a fan of anime after he tweeted his plan to build a giant robot.
Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame simply tweeted and wrote: 'Love Your Name', which is a romantic fantasy drama anime with a plot that involves body-swapping teenagers. His first tweet was followed by another a couple of minutes later that read: 'It is time to create a mecha', according to a report in RT.

For those who are not fans of anime, a 'mecha' in anime lingo means a giant fighting robot. Musk's tweets set Twitter a buzz as people speculated that he is planning to build a robot after his tweets on the Japanese animation titles.
However, it seems that Musk's morning tweet was just a demonstration of his high-school love for magical melodrama and his appreciation for Hayao Miyazaki's modern classics 'Spirited Away' and 'Princess Mononoke'. And, most importantly, 'Evangelion' - a series which revolves around teen angst and giant fighting robot-like humanoids.
But, it is difficult to laugh it off entirely in case of Musk who joked about making a flamethrower once and actually did it, then he built a 'kid-sized submarine' back in July which he wanted to use to rescue Thai football players from a flooded cave.
Musk's erratic tweets have him cost his dearly. A recent scandal around his false August tweet about taking Tesla private for $420 a share cost him $20 million and the chairman's seat.



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