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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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[โ€“] 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.