The real-life Transformer! Watch as a 3.5-ton robot transforms into a car within seconds

If you grew up loving the Transformers franchise, you may have dreamed of the day technology would bring your favourite robots to life. Now, a Japanese engineering company has turned that childhood fantasy into a reality, with its 3.5-ton robot that transforms into a car within moments. The Archax, designed by Tsubame Industries, is a 15ft-tall piloted mech able to go from a standing'robot mode' into a streamlined'vehicle mode' with the press of a button. Incredible footage shows a pilot climbing in through the cockpit hatch and manipulating the robot's arms and hands before switching modes and driving off. Tsubame Industries has currently made five of the giant robots and plans to sell them for $3 million (£2.46m) each.