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It's cool that we are getting heavy things to have feet but why? A hummer weighs 2000lbs less and can go well over 80mph, what benefit does this concept have o
by SurrealSoul 9y ago
It's cool that we are getting heavy things to have feet but why?
A hummer weighs 2000lbs less and can go well over 80mph, what benefit does this concept have over armored cars?
- ceejayoz 9y agoThe specific thing shown in this video is pretty useless, but there's likely to be a place for combat robots that can climb rocky mountainsides that armored vehicles would find impassable.
- srcmap 9y agoDoesn't require road... Can go where no hummer has gone before ? May also help firefighter carry heavy load for forest fire.
- anfedorov 9y agoSimilar reason on why evolution doesn't have wheels — less restrictions on where it can go.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoI'd point to tumbleweeds, and the Wheel Spider[1] as examples of wheel-like structures that evolved (in terrains where it makes some sense, of course - not so handy for a scree-littered hill, bog, etc.). 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_spider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_spider
- eli_gottlieb 9y ago>It's cool that we are getting heavy things to have feet but why? Because my inner child wants to pilot a giant robot, and that's that.
- r00fus 9y agoThis is nothing but a prototype combat exoskeleton (powered armor).
- Raphmedia 9y agoIf it were a full featured "fiction" level Mecha, the main advantage is that it could crouch behind cover, go prone, jump obstacles and climb uneven terrain. Add one more "tech level" to it and you can have a 1-on-1 mapping of the user's input and this allows you to have tanks that require almost no training to use allowing you to have your infantry be... well, big robots. The only advantage of that is if you can produce them faster than training would take. In real life, right now, they simply looks cool.