The Japanese Science Portal has specced out and priced a giant mecha robot, the Gundam. It takes a certain mind to apply a mundane spreadsheet to something as out-and-out awesome as an 18 meter tall robot, but amongst the numbers are some great dream components.

The brain, for instance, would be IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer (¥171 million or $1.6 million); 30 400KW motors would supply the movement (total cost $7.8 million), and the seven Apache helicopter engines needed to power them would be another $52 million each. Pink Tentacle provides a better translation that Google's machine ever could, and the table from the site appears below. One thing is missing, though. An Orange County Choppers paintjob.

The 10th giant robot, and if you can make it [Science Portal via Pink Tentacle]