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.

The T9 is more than meets the eye... and more than meets most budgets. The dream robot of my childhood is right in front of me. A remote-control car drives on a table, stops and instantly transforms into a humanoid walking robot. It's a real-life Transformer... well, without the official Transformers licensing, that is. This mechanical specimen is called the T9, made by Robosen Robotics, and it's one of the many robots landing in 2020 to wow kids, and kids at heart.

A video from Letvision depicts its transforming Letrons model. More than 20 years after Transformers landed onto your childhood TV screens, the robots in disguise may now dwell among us. A Turkish company called Letvision has released a series of videos depicting BMW coupe that unfolds into a giant, moving robot, Yahoo Tech reported. Letvision claims the prototype, reportedly designed over eight months by a team of 16 engineers and technicians, moves by remote control. In the video, a remote operator apparently drives the car through a lot before it slowly transforms into a humanoid robot with a turning head, moving fingers and a dramatic fog effect.