s_i_t_h_l_o_r_d Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Saw this in youtube your #1 source for the unussual. It reminds me of the battery driven robots of yester year with the chest that opens up as well as the geriatric pace that it's known for... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I saw this video few months ago, finally we can have a mech war someday, maybe 20-30 years in the future. All it needs is some weapon modules and jump jets . It still need improvement before it could replace armored vehicle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante74 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Although it looks impressive, I don't think it could crush a car with one step. a car would win if it where up against this thing. Actually, I'm wrong, it doesn't even look impressive. They need to get Honda to help them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retracting Head Ter Ter Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I don't think it has a gyro so it kinda slides its feet instead of walking. From the video, the feet doesn't lift its foot more then 4-6 inches off the ground. Which means it can't even mount a kerb! The average Porsche would have better off-road abilities then this 'mech'. Kudos to the effort the guy put in building it though. I think we had this long thread once. My stand was that if the technology to make an armoured walker was available, the same tech is better spent on making an armoured box on treads/wheels/anti-grav rather then an armoured box on legs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightmareB4macross Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Landwalker??? Looks more like ultra-super-destructive-maim-kill-destroy-your-fat-toe roller-derby bot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 hahah, this has been around for a while. It's kinda neat but endlessly silly in how utterly useless something like that is at this point in the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GobotFool Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 does that thing even lift its feet? or does it just shuffle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddsun1 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 True, it does just "shuffle" its feet--if I didn't know any better, I'd say that it may have casters or wheels under its feet or something, since it doesn't really raise them? Cripes, but that thing does look downright uncomfortable to ride in for any distance farther than out of the garage and back! Can we say dramamine [sp?]? But still, it gets an A+ for effort--how many of us can say "I've got a giant walker robot in the garage, wanna ride?" True though, I'm surprised somebody like John Deere or Caterpillar haven't built something that can run circles around it [pun intended], what with their resources/budgets/R&D, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 True, it does just "shuffle" its feet--if I didn't know any better, I'd say that it may have casters or wheels under its feet or something, since it doesn't really raise them? Cripes, but that thing does look downright uncomfortable to ride in for any distance farther than out of the garage and back! Can we say dramamine [sp?]? But still, it gets an A+ for effort--how many of us can say "I've got a giant walker robot in the garage, wanna ride?" True though, I'm surprised somebody like John Deere or Caterpillar haven't built something that can run circles around it [pun intended], what with their resources/budgets/R&D, etc... 421244[/snapback] I'm sure somebody could... but what's the point of it? Too unstable for any sort of industrial purpose and legs are less energy efficient compared to wheels/treads. multilegged platforms would be more stable.. maybe for forestry or navigating slopped terrain like mountains? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mechamaniac Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 True though, I'm surprised somebody like John Deere or Caterpillar haven't built something that can run circles around it [pun intended], what with their resources/budgets/R&D, etc... 421244[/snapback] You mean like this one??? http://forevergeek.com/gadgets/the_walking...est_machine.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 True though, I'm surprised somebody like John Deere or Caterpillar haven't built something that can run circles around it [pun intended], what with their resources/budgets/R&D, etc... 421244[/snapback] You mean like this one??? http://forevergeek.com/gadgets/the_walking...est_machine.php 421261[/snapback] oooooh, neato. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big F Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 (edited) True though, I'm surprised somebody like John Deere or Caterpillar haven't built something that can run circles around it [pun intended], what with their resources/budgets/R&D, etc... 421244[/snapback] You mean like this one??? http://forevergeek.com/gadgets/the_walking...est_machine.php 421261[/snapback] oooooh, neato. 421263[/snapback] The John Deere one looks like a six legged spider cool. Arnt these the same guys who made the Votom ? great to se people doing this sort of thing. I would If I had a garage that big and tall. Edited July 31, 2006 by big F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beltane70 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I think Pepsi actually used this walker for the launch of Pepsi NEX in Japan back at the end of March. I remember seeing it, or one similar to it in Shinjuku. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zentrandude Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 True, it does just "shuffle" its feet--if I didn't know any better, I'd say that it may have casters or wheels under its feet or something, since it doesn't really raise them? Cripes, but that thing does look downright uncomfortable to ride in for any distance farther than out of the garage and back! Can we say dramamine [sp?]? But still, it gets an A+ for effort--how many of us can say "I've got a giant walker robot in the garage, wanna ride?" True though, I'm surprised somebody like John Deere or Caterpillar haven't built something that can run circles around it [pun intended], what with their resources/budgets/R&D, etc... 421244[/snapback] Its got bunch of flexible balls in the feet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big F Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 I think Pepsi actually used this walker for the launch of Pepsi NEX in Japan back at the end of March. I remember seeing it, or one similar to it in Shinjuku. 421320[/snapback] darn just missd that then. I was there in April Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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