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Feature: Turkish engineers make Transformer real

Xinhua, September 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

"I am Antimon, the leader of Letrons. I came here to meet you," A car that transformed into a robot started talking and quickly attracted cheers from a young boy named Mustafa Kerem, who came to see the real transformer autobot designed by Turkish engineers in Ankara.

The red vehicle has a BMW look but not able to take passenger. With the remote control by engineers from Letvision, a Turkish innovative company in Ankara, the electricity motivated car show Mustafa its transforming knacks and abilities to say a few sentences programmed by computer.

"I am very amazed to see this big auto robot, and its looks really cool. I just like it!" Mustafa, who was holding a transformer toy, expressed his feeling while he was surrounded by reporters.

Many children came for the media presenting of Antimon in Gazi University in Golbasi, Ankara on Tuesday, and they could not wait to take photos of the big moving toy.

"This Antimon is definitely not just a toy for me, it is our dream. Turkish engineers in our company and me, we are doing this to fulfill our childhood dream and to show the world what Turkish engineers can do," Turgut Alpagot, co-founder and marketing director of Letvision told Xinhua.

Antimon, which has attracted thousands of fans on social media, was under the research and development project named "Letrons" of Letvision.

"In car form, Antimon is mobile and in robot form it can move its head, neck, wrist and fingers. You can turn on and off its lights via remote control. The uniqueness is that it has the ability to talk interactively, give answer to your questions," Alpagot said.

Under the push of the show of Antimon, Letrons is becoming a world-known brand. Meanwhile, Alpagot and his co-workers are taking positive feed backs from all over the world.

"This feed backs are now encouraging us to push to the next phase of Letrons project and giving more hope to young engineers, Alpagot added.

"During the Research and development period, there are bottle necks like financial problems, but we did our best to overcome it. Innovative works are always not easy," Alpagot told Xinhua, adding that in the next phase, Antimon will be able to have autonomy sound system and more movement ability, which will make the Letrons project closer to their dreams of auto robot transformers.

Antomon, the leader of 12 Letrons robots, took 12 engineers eight months to create based on what used to be a BMW sports car.

The video of Letrons project post by Letvision on Youtube has already attracted over 20 thousands views and created a hot topic on social media about building a real-life "Transformer" that morphs from a car to a giant robot. Endit