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the science zone: are mechs efficient
Tayasaurus:
--- Quote from: Planr on October 07, 2017, 01:05:30 PM ---you clearly haven't seen boston dynamics if you think asimo is the best we've achieved with bipedal locomotion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
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I have seen every one of their videos and the locomotion is still on the same scale of useless. Not saying its not cool, but the precision of it at present still doesn't justify its use. Big Dog has bigger potential because of it's 4 legs and the ability to load it like a pack mule.
gr8dayseth:
mechs are cool
therefore yes
Tayasaurus:
--- Quote from: TheABELBOTO on October 07, 2017, 03:39:09 PM ---Guys guys guys, just stop and listen for moment;
Instead of giant mechs, why don't we just make giants in armored suits. Think about it; if we humans have perfected bipedal movement why bother reverse engineering millions of years of evolution when we can just re-use it AND make it better.
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Because human structure has programmed and physical limitations that cannot be breached. Mass causes all sorts of problems. People like Robert Wadlow and Broc Brown were/are massive but suffer multiple health issues.
Drydess:
they're not as efficient as plain old ships in most any way, but there is a huge ass intimidation factor
Ceist:
so what we need are mini-mechs. mechs the size of humans. people sized robots.
in reality the closest things we have are enlarged exo-suits. I believe in a matter of 20 years they can be perfected to the point of being applicable in normal life outside of a testing zone.