Japanese engineers won't let a pandemic stop them from completing a giant, real-life Gundam

The engineers at Gundam Factory Yokohama had the dream of building a giant walking robot and nothing—not even a pandemic—can stop them from realizing it. Their sights set on no less a task than turning a Gundam mech from the long-running science fiction anime franchise into a hulking, deeply impractical reality, these mad scientists have pressed on through the darkest of days. And now, thanks to their determination to give a battered world a way-too-big cartoon robot that can walk around just being cool as hell, their work is almost complete.
A recent Popular Mechanics article checked in on the project, letting us know that the Gundam Factory Yokohama team are planning to reveal the full glory of their roughly 60-feet tall robot on October 1st of this year. If this seems unrealistic, consider a video from earlier this month that shows the overgrown (currently headless) action figure taking its first, tentative steps like some towering metal baby.