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Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 4.5-metre-tall (14.8-feet), four-wheeled robot that looks like “Mobile Suit Gundam” from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can be yours for $3 million.
- xep ( @xep@kbin.social ) 32•1 year ago
This is unfortunately a lot less impressive than it looks, since it’s wheeled and not bipedal.
- stardust ( @stardust@lemmy.ca ) English10•1 year ago
It’s Guntank.
- The Octonaut ( @TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ) 24•1 year ago
“$3 mln” is somehow a lot less explanatory than “$3m”
- mifan ( @mifan@feddit.dk ) 4•1 year ago
I thought it was $3/min 🤷🏽♂️
- axsyse ( @axsyse@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 year ago
I think it’s to draw a distinction from the similar “milliard”, which means “billion” in British English but has fallen out of fashion.
- Deceptichum ( @Deceptichum@kbin.social ) 16•1 year ago
Didn’t they build this years ago? I remember the lame arse “fight” with the US robot company.
- ShadowRam ( @ShadowRam@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
yes, like 10+ years ago.
Still a joke, not sure why they don’t get a proper hydraulic control person involved in these projects.
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English6•1 year ago
I get the feeling that, seeing as hydraulics have been around for longer than robotics, it just isn’t practicable to build a robot out of hydraulics - otherwise we’d have them already.
- ShadowRam ( @ShadowRam@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Nah, you can’t beat the power density of hydraulics and never will unless room temp superconductors become a thing.
Big Dog from Boston Dynamic was hydraulic.
Going that size or bigger, hydraulics is a must.
The reason you don’t see it is hydraulics is a completely different ball game.
Controls researchers stick with small and electronic, because that’s what they know.
It’s very rare to find a controls engineer that understands hydraulics.
And the hydraulics experts out there, don’t have the background for sophisticated control theory.
- Allseer ( @StalksEveryone@futurology.today ) English3•1 year ago
i think they had an idea, a good one, but then at the last moment realized that it was all too dangerous and expensive in practice.
then they tried doing some weird hybrid between “professional” wrestling and a documentary.
poor planning was the ultimate downfall. i had high hopes.
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
That’s just the exo-suit from “Aliens”
- Uninvited Guest ( @uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 year ago
Looks more like the loader from Aliens, which (to me) is more interesting than Gundam.
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
US vs Japan mech battle take 2?
- Qkall ( @Qkall@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
I was so hype to watch two big ass robots do nothing to each other… I’m down for another hour long video, regardless.
- ShoePaste ( @ShoePaste@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
I dont know what i was really expecting from that fight but man was i disappointed. All the hype for what amounted to about a 5 second robot slap fight.
- blazera ( @blazera@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Author needs to watch more Gundam
- nooneescapesthelaw ( @nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Holy shit just 3 million!
- Allseer ( @StalksEveryone@futurology.today ) English1•1 year ago
it looks like the Kuratas. isn’t this too dangerous to give to just anyone?