It is like a mech suit in the sense that “mechs” are a fantasy conjured up by scifi artists to anthromorphize machines and they don’t have anything to do with reality except in very niche applications.

In reality heavily armored vehicles used for assaulting a heavily defended position such as main battle tanks and other armored fighting vehicles/personel carriers are from a design standpoint completely unrelated to mechs and the way mechs are portrayed in fantasy media.

Mechs are designed to look like people because they are robot superhero action figures… whereas a tank is designed to be as low to the ground as possible while still functioning as a tank because that is the best way to design it. A tank is also designed to have as little moving parts as possible (other than the turret) or fragile parts that extend from the armored hull, the precise opposite of a tall robot with legs.

I know this is a silly comparison stretched out too far, but when I look at “AI” I really do see a bunch of people pretending the mech they built is going to replace tanks because all the scifi/anime shows they watch have concluded mechs are the future and yet there is absolutely zero logical through line leading from why you might choose to build something like a tank and something like a mech in the real world and yet there is still an insane amount of hype around mechs and mainstream media has basically concluded tanks are obsolete already…