Author Topic: Holy Bi pedal tanks batman! (Read 1731 times)

Glasses · « **Reply #60 on:** July 28, 2005, 11:42:20 AM »

Go Chairboy go Chairboy go go go go

I think within our lifetime(mine at least I dunno about you old folks) I might see Mechs walking the streets.

Me thinks the next revolution will come in the robotics area, and it's already starting in a couple of years you will go oh my friggin lord , to the kinds of things that will come down the pipeline and this is just the first evoltionary step in Bi-pedal tanks.

The technology just needs to be developed and engineered so that these "things" will be looked upon in a favorable manner.

Just like the airplane and the tank, there were benign uses for this kind of technology in the beggining , and then the technology progressed mainly due to influence by visionaries who foresaw how would this technologies would be best used either in the battlefield or in the civilian world.

It's only a matter of time beotcheS!
Before......THE SUPER DIMENSIONAL FORTRESS MACROSS!

Chairboy · « **Reply #61 on:** July 28, 2005, 11:52:09 AM »

Personally, while anime is focused on mech use in warfare, it seems to me that we're more likely to see the technology developed for increasing mobility to disabled people, at least in the short term.

I'd also like to see Caterpillar release their payload ammo loader/heavy lifter (as seen in Aliens) someday.

moot · « **Reply #62 on:** July 28, 2005, 12:46:39 PM »

that's the first thing I thought when I read "mobility to disabled people"

Midnight · « **Reply #63 on:** July 28, 2005, 01:06:52 PM »

Chairboy, it's kind of like what moot said... that thing is just a larger scale version of a kid's toy. There's really no innovation in it other than it's much larger.

The ASIMO on the other hand shows real innovation towards a usable product.

The tractor to tank comparison is OK, but only if the ASIMO didn't exist.

I guess it's possible for that Mech to get ASIMO technology to make it actually walk and run... Well.. then it would be cool

moot · « **Reply #64 on:** July 28, 2005, 01:24:15 PM »

ASIMO can do it.
DARPA a few years ago (2000 or so) had a a design contest webpage up, asking for basically this exoskeleton type of thing, so it's definitely in the skunkwerks..

Seeing that university and other private research are already to the point of barely stable, autonomous designs, I'd say DARPA or other bottomless fund organisations are at least a few steps ahead of this.

Chairboy · « **Reply #65 on:** July 28, 2005, 01:31:39 PM »

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Originally posted by Midnight
Chairboy, it's kind of like what moot said... that thing is just a larger scale version of a kid's toy. There's really no innovation in it other than it's much larger.

I've just reviewed my posts in this subject, and I'm not sure where you get the impression that I'm praising this as the end-all answer to mechanized bipedal locomotion.

Quite the contrary, all I've been saying is that I think mechanized bipedal tech has a future, most of the arguments have been limited to people saying 'no it don't' and me politely disagreeing.

This thing just shuffles along (like I mentioned in an earlier message today), and is hardly ground breaking, it's just a neat conversation starter.

Wolfala · « **Reply #66 on:** July 28, 2005, 04:01:31 PM »

If you goto the Broad Agency Announcement page at http://www.fedbizopps.gov you'll find several BAA's on the matter. Like it or not, the stuff IS being developed.

Wolf

Midnight · « **Reply #67 on:** July 29, 2005, 08:55:44 AM »

Chairboy

I don't mean to imply that you were implying that that thing is the end-all-be-all. I just meant that thing is not a unit that qualifies as a technology base to be built upon. It is a good conversation starter, and due to the popularity of Mechs, it has a cool factor too, but that's about it, I think.