Nissan's Dualis mech caught on video

How do you sell a crossover SUV in Japan? Apparently you build a mammoth mech with wheels on his heels and let it have free reign in the city. Nissan is looking to hype up its Dualis vehicle over in Ginza by making appearnaces alongside the ride as well as blazing through parking garages and fuel stations. The black and silver machine was reportedly created by Shoji Kawamori, and will be on display at various locales in Japan from now until July 1st. Of course, this is marketing we're talking about, and this fellow can seriously fly on these "hidden camera captures," so feel free to click on through to see a few questionable videos of this 3.5-meter tall monster (supposedly) wheeling about.

[Via PinkTentacle]

[akijikan @ May 25th 2007 4:23PM]

um you think maybe fake videos? just maybe?

[ROFLROFFLES @ May 25th 2007 4:23PM]

I assume you were talking about the woman?

That is one fine robot.... looks almost real..where can I buy one?

[Aaron @ May 25th 2007 4:28PM]

That would be pretty sweet if it was real. Lol @ the video with it getting gasoline.

I didn't want to be the dork to say this, but since I'm the first one here, I may as well: the girl in the picture is cute.

[Aaron @ May 25th 2007 4:30PM]

Crap, by the time I finished writing, I was third.

[L.Rawlins @ May 25th 2007 4:31PM]

'Take. Me. To. Your. Dealer.'

[SL @ May 25th 2007 4:47PM]

Japan....monster....a girl....hmm....sounds too pr0nish to me.

[lyl545646 @ May 25th 2007 5:10PM]

mama, I want that robot, and I want it now!

[alex @ May 25th 2007 5:11PM]

I'm more interested in the girl than the robot. Cute.

[Shunnabunich @ May 25th 2007 6:27PM]

Y'know, if they'd only restricted the robot's motions and made it less fluid and mobile (considering it's a pretty big robot), it would have been tons more convincing. It's the movement, especially when it suddenly takes off at impossible speeds, that makes it an obvious fake. Visually, it's very well integrated into its environment.

[Gleb Serbin @ May 25th 2007 6:30PM]

If you're more interested in the girl than the robot, you're on the wrong website.

I hope someday within my lifetime we get to the point where we can actually make robots with such an organic feel. The robot's movements are the least convincing.

[motorer @ May 25th 2007 11:14PM]

if you can't appreciate a cute girl, don't bother wasting your strength commenting about it. they put her there for a reason

[MarkZ @ May 25th 2007 7:01PM]

For one of the Samsung ads not long ago, a commenter posted "Are Korean girls the new Japanese girls?"
No... unfortunately Nissan has reclaimed that crown.
Japanese girls are still the new Japanese girls.

[Kyle @ May 25th 2007 7:04PM]

Does it come with Nismo parts?

[Jason @ May 25th 2007 7:08PM]

Y'know, what's kinda funny is the way that is says Dualis at the end, along with the music, makes both videos seem oddly like, um, commercials? Maybe? This whole robot is a new ad campaign, but those were obviously fake, and seemed to me like commercials.

[meist3r @ May 25th 2007 7:35PM]

Oh noe! First Citroen made one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXAP-mo9TLY) and now the Japanese are building auto-mechs too. They are taking over the world.... Waaaaahhhh

Oh wait, it's just CGI... phew. But honestly, I wish the jap military would release some of the footage of what they've got in their secret labs.

[barnz2k @ May 25th 2007 8:57PM]

I imagine these 2 are virals from the main commercial that is on air at the moment. Which shows a guy waiting in traffic, he then transforms and runs along the wall over the traffic and transforms back to his car.
one of the versions partly shows him inside the suit - very mech like.

again, it looks too "light" but they didnt wanna show him smashing the building etc i guess! I wish I had these kinda projects!!

[D2point0 @ May 25th 2007 9:20PM]

The first video almost had me going for a minute until I realized that any actual human would see that robot and react a little more realistically.

[Dylan @ May 25th 2007 9:22PM]

Or second video, you know what I meant.

[ark_v2 @ May 25th 2007 9:45PM]

That's...heaven...
what it now. Can it turn into a car of even a bike? lol

[evrrdo12 @ May 26th 2007 12:07AM]

pas si vite.

[prttymf8 @ May 26th 2007 1:11AM]

You'd think that a robot would operate on something other than unleaded gasoline.

[OddManOut @ May 26th 2007 2:15AM]

"You'd think that a robot would operate on something other than unleaded gasoline."

And how pray tell do you know it wasn't getting diesel ? Maybe it just stopped to use the squeegee...

[Phi Nguyen @ May 26th 2007 4:37AM]

Hey SL, if it involved tentacles, fecal matter/urine, and vacuum-sealing bags, I would tend to agree with you. Damn, those Japanese people have ruined my innocent mind.

[Chuckles McGee @ May 26th 2007 11:07AM]

If they had made the thing a little less agile, slow moving, stomping thing, it would seem way more believable. Guess they decided to go for elegance instead of realism.

[sirensinger @ May 26th 2007 1:49PM]

I wanna go Fast!

[Tang @ May 26th 2007 9:05PM]

Assuming this is the same Kawamori of Macross fame, it seems that his mecha designs are now coming to life!

[Kerogazzz @ May 28th 2007 2:19PM]

Quite good advertising of machine! I remember at sitroena or something type of it also there was such advertising, able to intrigue! Rather showed a machine!

[hydrogen_wv @ May 29th 2007 9:36AM]

Ahhh!!!! Godzilla!!!

[Harlo @ May 29th 2007 1:52PM]

What an 'appearnaces'? ;)