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What was that about a 300-pound combat robot?
by EForEndeavour 6y ago
What was that about a 300-pound combat robot?
- YarickR2 6y agoShort Circuit movie remake ?
- bregma 6y agoRemake? Number 5 is alive!
- Teknoman117 6y agoGot the weight wrong. It was a 220 pound robot for the heavyweight class in Robogames. I was driving between my university campus and the campus extension in the next town when the crash happened.
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoWow that is a good reminder to secure my robots when driving... a deer jumped out in front of me recently and I had to hit the brakes hard. Luckily didn’t have my robot in the car. As a fellow Robogames competitor I’m glad you made it out of that crash!
- ant6n 6y agoHuh. Fighting robots in car trunks seem to be more common than I realized.
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoWell my robot is an explorer: https://reboot.love/t/new-cameras-on-rover/ https://reboot.love/t/new-cameras-on-rover/
- jacquesm 6y agoThat's a beast. Nice work!
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoThank you!
- kungtotte 6y agoYou should secure everything in your car. If you crash into something going only 50 kilometres per hour, things that are the same weight as your average smartphone will have enough force on impact to kill you.
- barrkel 6y agoIn a dead stop, maybe, but a car isn't likely to be stopped dead. I've been told on motorcycle hazard awareness courses that if your body hits a solid object at 50 kph, it's 50% mortality risk - it's enough deceleration force to rupture your aorta. Take something like a sign post to the chest and you'll be lucky to survive.
- nordsieck 6y ago> In a dead stop, maybe, but a car isn't likely to be stopped dead. I guess it depends on the kind of accident. In a head-on collision or if you run into a tree/concrete wall, that's pretty close to being stopped dead. In the more common rear end or "T" collisions, probably not.
- tsomctl 6y agoIf you hit a tree or concrete wall, you still have crumple zones that slow you down over a short period of time.
- KMag 6y agoBut the crumple zones don't help the objects (now projectiles) flying about your car. The crumple zones will finishing crumpling around the same time that something sitting on the rear deck of your car will hit you in the back of the head at 50 kph. The original point was about unsecured objects in the car becoming deadly.
- barrkel 6y agoOf course they do. They decrease the rate of deceleration. Whether it's enough to make a difference, we should make calculations. I'd expect 50kph is where marginal increases in mortality start to become larger, so it wouldn't take much to reduce harm, I believe.
- Teknoman117 6y agoLots of good memories from Robogames. I had first read about it in Servo magazine when I lived on the east coast as a kid. My family ended up moving to California when I was in high school and I was a regular attendee from that point on. I entered robomagellan regularly during college (except the one year the university's club entered the heavyweight combat robot competition). After college I ended up moving to Orange County and didn't attend much. Sad to see that it ended.
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoWell for some throwback memories I have some old TechTV coverage of Robogames 2005 of my YouTube channel. I’m the kid with bleached blonde hair in the video. https://youtu.be/J2R-TlBomnQ https://youtu.be/J2R-TlBomnQ
- godzillabrennus 6y agoTechTV was amazing.