The robot is 13 feet tall, weighs about 4.5 tons and has apparently been named "Igorek."
Source: Meduza, Daily Mail
Igorek is operated by one or more controllers who sit behind the tinted windowed-cabin, which is reportedly bullet proof.
Source: Daily Mail
While Kalashnikov is a legit company, Russia consistently makes wild claims about its hardware that it doesn't live up to. So who knows what will come of Igorek.
But if Igorek does pan out, Moscow might very well have another tool to carry Putin-critic Alexei Navalny away from protests, as this twitter user pointed out.
@navalny pic.twitter.com/T3J87PwTuV
— Вино и Питер (@WineAndSpb) August 21, 2018
