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Vacuum tubes are generally big, high voltage and require large power supplies; so pretty terrible for robots.

• dylan604 2y ago
  Not if you're building Mechzilla. There's plenty of room for them at that scale!!!
  • _carbyau_ 2y ago
    One of the quirks I love about Battletech. A targeting computer weight is measured in tons... It really is a game of stompy robots as the 1960s thought they could be.
  • euroderf 2y ago
    *MechaGodzilla
• pjc50 2y ago
  Obviously you solve this by using nuclear power for the robot. /s
• HPsquared 2y ago
  Power supply etc would be external. They would have absolutely minimal electronics onboard, I was referring specifically to camera tubes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera_tube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera_tube
  • guerrilla 2y ago
    Now I want one of these.
• magicalhippo 2y ago
  The MiG-25 used nuvistors[1] for the avionics, which are quite small compared to your average stereo amplifier tubes. Sure it requires high voltage, though "only" around 100V[2]. But yeah, still not great for making robots. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvistor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvistor [2]: https://archive.org/details/manualsbase-id-455546/page/4/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/manualsbase-id-455546/page/4/mod...