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Japan startup develops 'Gundam'-like robot with $3 mln price tag (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Madison_rogue@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn’t they build this years ago? I remember the lame arse “fight” with the US robot company.

[–] ShadowRam@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] StalksEveryone@futurology.today 5 points 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.