Japanese engineer builds real life Land Walker

Masaaki Nagumo, an engineer at Japan's machinery maker Sakakibara Kikai, gets into a 3.4-metre tall, two-legged robot called Land Walker for a demonstration as part of an art exhibition.

Attach a bazooka or two to that and I think we've got ourselves a winner for bestest thing ever.

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