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atomic - bog standard engine mecha - tracked warrior - unarmed robot - has a pilot a true post factual headline it's... it's a crane. a crane with two boom
by avereveard 5y ago
atomic - bog standard engine
mecha - tracked
warrior - unarmed
robot - has a pilot
a true post factual headline
it's... it's a crane. a crane with two boom and some radiation shielding, which somehow gets called "armor"
- Apocryphon 5y agoIt's atomic and warrior by association or job description. There are some tracked mecha in fiction, but they are usually considered inferior to the walker equivalents. As far as robot- you've got it there. It's basically a wheeled version of Ripley's power loader from Aliens.
- mcguire 5y agoWhereas tracked vehicles would (likely) be superior in practice, due to weight vs load-bearing area issues. And most cranes don't have manipulator arms.
- avereveard 5y agoare you familiar with, idk, the whole felling industry?
- mcguire 5y agoNot personally, no. How many degrees of freedom do they need? http://cyberneticzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tele-manipulator-x640.jpg http://cyberneticzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tele-man...
- jollybean 5y agoYes, but just look at it, that's one of the coolest retro things I've ever seen. It's cool enough that it could go into a video game today. Sorry to say the cool factor legitimizes everything they could put in the headline. That's a beast. You're gonna see that in a Guillermo del Toro film soon.