- Today, we've become super villains!
- Banana.
- Oh yeah.
(mechanical whirring)
Oh yeah.
(dramatic music)
- This is Prosthesis, the anti-robot.
That's its full, formal name.
It is the world's largest four-legged exoskeleton.
It is a 4,000 kilogram,
200 horsepower, all terrain powered MEC suit.
I wanted to build a machine that used your whole body,
that was not automated.
That took skill and rewarded you with practice,
but was still super technically sophisticated.
- [Zach] The idea of a MEC suit,
an exoskeleton, is you are one with the machine.
The machine is an extension of your body.
I wanna feel the power.
- [Keith] I mean, this feels like it is
a hard chance to dabble in being a super villain.
(dramatic music)
(buzzing)
Get outta my face, you bug.
I'll see,
see who's laughing at the end of this
when I'm wearing an exoskeleton, bug.
(dramatic music)
- You guys ready for this?
- [Keith] Yeah.
- I guess.
- Yes - Holy shit.
(mechanical whirring)
- [Kwesi] Oh, he's toe tapping.
(whirring)
- [Try Guys] Oh!
- Holy cow!
- Shit.
- [Kwesi] Oh, snap. Oh, s-
(laughs)
(whirring)
- Oh!
- Get away from it, Kwesi.
I said get away from it.
- Oh my God.
- You have to
Get, get away from it, get away from it.
Oh my God.
Oh.
(clapping and laughing)
This has me full on, in like horror movie, like
(screams)
(laughing)
- What are things that this can do,
that we feeble-bodied people can't?
- [Jonathan] Flip a car, lift a car,
like load a 400 pound thing onto our trailer.
We actually towed our truck out of the sand.
We were driving in the Mojave Desert for a shoot.
- Jon was driving, Jon was driving.
- Jon was driving.
We wanted to answer the question,
what would it feel like if you could be a giant?
It doesn't do anything for you.
It just amplifies your strength by 50 times.
- So how do we get in this?
We get like, there's a ladder next to it?
We climb up and then we drop in or what?
- Yeah, not quite.
- Let him try.
(laughs)
Zachy wants to do it himself.
- [Kwesi] There you go, Zachy!
- I haven't been up here,
like on top of a jungle gym in a long time.
Even my heart is racing doing this, climbing.
You know, I stopped climbing a long time ago.
(laughter)
- Alright, I'm going in.
- [Man] Okay.
- Watch the balls.
- [Man] Alright.
- Oh yeah, you're right. It's a little dick trap.
- [Curtis] Yep. Readjust, if you need to.
Readjust your pants
- Well. It's not the pants that's the problem.
(laughter)
- I'm not nervous at all.
- No reason to be.
- I'm brave.
- Yeah, of course.
- You're a brave little boy.
- I'm brave!
- You're brave!
- So go on the other side here.
- Give me, give me positive energy.
- You got this.
- It's such a joy to watch people get in
and have an experience that they've never had before.
It's like, it's a bit like flying a plane,
combined with a rollercoaster where you make your own track.
- It's a little intimidating looking
so I just wanna try and soften it real quick.
- [Keith] Oh yeah.
That's way nicer.
- That's nicer, yeah.
- [Keith] Oh, yeah.
- [Kwesi] Humanize it.
- [Curtis] The MEC is yours.
- The MEC is mine.
Yeah!
(screams)
Holy shit.
- Okay. Nice and smooth back down.
(screams and moans)
- [Curtis] It gets standing.
It's basically just your elbows and your knees.
So you're on all fours essentially,
and you just straighten your legs, straighten your arms,
and you're up in the air.
(screams)
- How was that?
- [Curtis] That was pretty good.
- Okay.
(screams and moans)
- Zach, just like this.
(groovy music)
- That's very helpful,
- Zach. A little bit like this, Zach.
- Kinda like this.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Like that, like that, Zach.
- [Curtis] Looks simple and from the outside
it's just a sort of (indistinct).
- Whoa.
- Oh!
- When you're in there,
and you are commanding your own
three dimensional fate, it's wild.
- These tusks are pretty scary.
- Holy shit.
- [Curtis] No, leave those down for safety.
(laughter)
- [Kwesi] How's he doing that?
Now, you know my next question.
- Just touch the ground with the bumper bars
and then go back up.
- Could he do the Macarena or the Harlem Shake backwards?
- It's got some dance moves.
- Lean with it.
Rock with it.
(laughs)
Lean with it.
Rock with it.
(laughs)
Oh!
- It is portrayed almost exclusively
as being militarized for fighting, attacking.
- Well, I'm a little nervous.
I know that you guys are pretty excited for this.
I'm like, I'm very nervous.
It seems like a scary experience.
- Gives you some comfort to know that it's enshrined
in the constitution of our corporate articles
that we will not weaponize the technology.
- Hey.
- Well, you won't.
(screams)
It's time that you fear the giant baby.
(roars)
- It's a curious study on human nature.
- Give me my milk!
Give me my mommy.
- People so rapidly go to sci-fi depictions
of its weaponized combat.
- Yes. You finally fall into the right traps, eg.
- That's why our slogan is kind of
what would you do if you were a giant?
Is your answer like, go and hurt people and destroy things?
- Now you'll meet your end.
Are you gonna shoot at me?
- Yeah. It didn't work.
(laughter)
- Don't anger the guy in the giant MEC suit, okay.
- I think what you're saying is very beautiful,
but I do kind of wanna smash just a little bit.
- I mean, when we took it to the scrapyard
we didn't fix the cars.
(cinematic music)
- Oh, Gru.
It's time to swallow your pride.
Victor!
- Oh yeah.
- For far too long have we been quarreling.
- Oh, you're telling me, it eats me up inside every night.
- Minion.
- Banana.
- I think it's time for all of us to work together.
- You mean, put aside our differences
so that we can take down those pumpkins
- Once and for all.
- Freeze Ray.
(laughs)
Oh, I got you.
- Banana.
- Okay, so just lean forward with your leg
and stomp that pumpkin.
- Lean forward with my leg then stomp on a pumpkin?
(screams and moans)
You fucking pumpkin!
- You gotta use your leg.
Kwesi, Kwesi.
- Fuck you, pumpkin!
(screams and moans)
- [Curtis] Kwesi, Kwesi.
- Fuck you, pumpkin!
(laughter)
(screams and moans)
(crash)
(cheering)
- Yeah! Fuck you, pumpkin!
- It's fun to pilot.
I don't think that there's necessarily a need
to have it be like super utilitarian right from the get go.
Like, what's wrong with it just being fun?
- Do the stanky leg, eh, do the stanky leg, eh!
How do I, how do I do the stanky, how do I get the leg up?
(screams)
Is it not working?
- You're doing great.
- Does it look cute?
- Yeah. You look cute.
- You look so cute.
- [Kwesi] Alright.
- The coolest thing about the MEC suit is its versatility.
It unlocks creativity of the pilot to solve problems
at scale that we never thought we could solve with a human.
- Do the stanky leg!
Ah, do the stanky leg!
Oh, shit.
- [Man] He was actually listening.
(screams)
- I'm gonna fucking smash it.
- Are you gonna smash it?
- I'm gonna smash it.
- No, Mr Pumpkin. I expect you to die.
- [Kwesi] Holy shit.
(screams)
(laughter)
- [Kwesi] Smash that pumpkin.
Fuck you, pumpkin.
(screams)
(crash)
(cheering)
And if I'm, go, go.
Fuck, yeah.
Fuck you, pumpkin!
- [Keith] I took it's booty right on.
- [Jonathan] That's what inspired it,
is that human experience and that human physicality
and like this sort of celebration of human skill.
- [Keith] Holy shit, Zach.
- It celebrates the human creativity
that makes the machine come to life.
- [Kwesi] Fuck you, pumpkin.
Fuck you, pumpkin!
(dramatic music)
- [Man] This pumpkin's smashed, it's-
(laughter)
- [Man] How's he getting it so smooth?
- Watch me nae nae.
Watch me whip, whip. Watch me nae nae.
Sexy.
- Merry fucking Christmas
and a happy new year.
From us, the Try Guys.
(roars)