Mechanical mole robot will dig to the rescue
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concept is totally failed. before this kind of mechanism rescues anyone, all will die.
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they should of tested it with a pile of bricks or really big ones that wouldn't of broken into small pieces cant really see it working in action just get rid of the small stuff at the side and not that well either...
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The Japanese must be laughing at us. How many University students did it take to come up with this? 8-year olds would build something better out of Lego!
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Let's be fair- this'd have been useful at 9/11
But it's not 9/11
And tbh that's not gonna happen again.
So... this'd be more use in India, and other earthquake zones.
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What a useless piece of junk.
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Tbh it's kinda cool, considering what the bigger version will be able to move. I doubt people would be able to move 2 tonne bricks themselves, so maybe this would actually lift it or something heroic like that.
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WTF
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It may have some potential I suppose. I presume it was mainly made for academic purposes.
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load of crap , put some wheels and a bin on it and it might be able to rake your lawn of leaves but dig a hole? no chance.
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It's a mechanism that makes three moves. A very simple design, that can be one part of a much larger design. That's how they build and test robots ladies and gentlemen. One piece at a time. It alone can't do much, but I like the concept and the potential. It's a good design for what it can do, don't you's think?
hughlooks 4 years ago 6
p.s. If you check the link to the NewScientist article, then you'll see that this is just a prototype of the mechanism.
So comments like "it's slow" or "all it does is push bricks aside" are totally missing the point that this isn't the finished product - which might well be faster and much larger able to push boulders aside - but just a simple demonstration of the "digging" mechanism in action.
KlaxonCow 4 years ago 3