Japan startup unveils 15-foot robot suit for space exploration::undefined
There’s 100 other options that are more practical but 100% less cool
Maybe…
Maybe…
Maybe I will live to see the legendary Mecha Duck Space Battles
STEP OFF
Weird. I didn’t know Gundams had wheels.
Fucking trash article. Every single outlet reporting on this is calling it a Gundam. Clearly we wouldn’t know what a 15 foot tall robot is without someone comparing it to a 100ft bipedal machine with massive guns and lightsabers that looks totally different than what they’re describing.
There are plenty of instances in anime where mechs (I guess not specifically Gundam) have wheels or skates/wheels, like Code Geass. I think its mostly so they don’t have to animate walking on the ground or draw different leg movements/positions.
Edit: added stuff about drawing.
gundum suits arent real dude its fiction
thats just a lot of car parts assembled incorrectly
and a CEO
and maybe 1 or 2 enginees maybe
/ssssssss
yea when i saw the wheels i knew
this is a attempt at geting funding
that will not be spent on much more than the board members
“Japan, we don’t need to design a mecha for everything.”
“But Gundam P1ANT will make crop harvesting 10% more efficient!”
“We need to get you into a war just so you have an outlet.”
The demands of space exploration weight reduction, weight reduction, compactness and weight reduction. The demands of disaster relief are probably all terrain mobility, strength and stability. Those attributes are polar opposites.
But the demand for mech suits is always very high.
Every time someone gets all self righteous and posts stuff about how this isn’t “practical” or “cost-effective” or “actually useful in a real world scenario, where efficacy is needed”.
They always forget the critical important factor: Mech Suits are Awesome!
No, it’s not for space exploration, and no, it wasn’t unveiled by the nation of Japan. Hyperbole to the extreme, shame on you, Independent.
Some Japanese bloke built it after learning how to weld, and said he thinks it’d be cool if something like it could be used for space exploration one day.
There’s no story here, just a guy doing simple DIY metalwork robotics.
hopes the robot could one day be used for disaster relief or in the space industry
Imagine I’d just fiddle around and build a few neat things and then hope they are going to be useful in outer space 😄
These guys 100% have no use case whatsoever for the thing they’re building besides “dude let’s MECHA”
I can respect that tbh, but pretending and dancing around it is a bit lame
“Disaster relief”. One day someone will find this in some abandoned underground research facility on the Moon and realize it’s the key to restoring peace on Earth.
GUNDUM
“space exploration”
So 1/4 scale mobile suit. Not quite a Gundam, but it’s a start.
Get away from her you bitch!
Didn’t Captain Disillusion already debunk this…?
Different co in SK.
boondoggle noun
- a wasteful and worthless project undertaken for political, corporate, or personal gain
Disaster relief, huh? Sounds like you’ve got a job , 621…
If you sit in a seat, it’s not a suit.
Gundam series mobile suits all were piloted from a seated position.
G gundam had these bodysuit they wore in a pod thing. Even a horse could pilot one.
Gundams aren’t suits either.
And the ones in aliens were but they didn’t call them that. Being a bit pedantic aren’t you.
The Aliens power lifters are on the border of “Suit”. You stand in them. The arms and legs have your arms and legs inside them, and they move as yours do. So yah I’d call that a suit that you wear. Just barely.
“Leg scooter” didn’t test well with consumers 😹
