mech walk

his machine tries to walk.
Here is a link to an article about him:
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-05/man-machine

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• mech
• mecha
• walking
• gundam

[baneblade1995]

mechs will never happen, theyre impractical.....why have a slow walking machine with a gun on it when u can have a tank?

[alansaladan]

@baneblade1995

Impracticality doesn't seem to rule things out. Deep underground military bases are impractical but present. Sure would be menacing to see a descendant of one of these on a battlefield. Impractical for sure.

The reason I posted this is because I was very impressed by this guys skills and abilities. He is definitely a bad ass. After all I dont have one of these and neither do you or avatarbattlemech, or paperjack.

Congrats to the guy who built the mech here.

[TRaddcliff]

nice walk....0 steps. impressive!

[neonnwave1]

With today's technology, it's very very difficult to make a fully functional/well built mech. In this video, this guy shows that fact. Arms and hands work fine, but it can't walk properly or move its limbs faster. The mechs we see in most sci-fi won't exist for another 150-200 years. However, if we were to look at this mech and think logically, mechs can one day be fully functional and move well within 50-100 years. There are other mechs out there that actually exist and work.

[gary7vn]

@baneblade1995 Who says it has to be slow?

[LuckyAmericanFilms]

"Get away from her, you bitch!"

[swissoligarch]

@baneblade1995 They're planning to use them for loading weapons onto planes to begin with. search sarcos robot and you should see one.

[SpiderMonkeyA69]

@alansaladan IT is interesting and somewhat impressive

Not really all that menacing and i doubt mechs ever will be, in a warzone it would just be a slow moving target. There are to many things that can go wrong with a mech, its weapons limited and if it wants to move at all it would be relatively light armored. Also deep underground military bases are practical in some cases, for security and to survive a nuclear strike. If wars were won with menacing there would be mammoth tanks..

[CharyHoo]

mech stand



[5sweatingpalm]

if it's too big the impinged weight impose on the earth surface per square foot = unidealistic coz all the weight in tons would be pressed on 2 foot :( and the earth surface is soil or dirt but if u look at it it's like u need a larger surfaced footing to get it properly in placed to stand that alone is hard, practical yes only if they start researching into changing the metal frame into bio frames then i'd say very practical.

[tomytza123]

waste of money and time

[madasnave]

@alansaladan deep underground bases have shilding from biological, radioactive, and toxic weapons, they are pratical in a war that would use such weapons. and you are much more likely to get the quazi torso shaped robot with treds for movement then a full mech if you want to get to the full mech that would be a step. a 100 ton mech warrior might do a lot of dammage but when it falls down it takes a lot to, so you have to fix that also.

[Anthrawn]

@baneblade1995 but you can fit all sorts of armorment on it, but naturally I am speaking in theories but so do you because there are no Mechs in real life to really compaire it to. Just cheep imitations of a vehicle that only exists in a sci-fi world so therefore you have no grounds to base your claims on either, so your argument holds no ground.