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[HanaYuriko]

If this is possible with Lego Technic, imagine what can be done with more sophisticated materials!




Now if we can get a real flying car...

[L zard]

Amazing! What's next?!?

[Hayden]

It's no replacement for the real thing, and probably really heavy... but that does not diminish this impressive achievement! Truly a job well done!

[Othgar]

I remember back when I was excited when I made an X-Wing out of Legos as a kid. Kinda puts my creation to shame.
Completely awesome, mind you!

[Sug]

HanaYuriko, on 14 February 2012 - 06:04 PM, said:

If this is possible with Lego Technic, imagine what can be done with more sophisticated materials!

Like actual replacement arms?





http://www.colbertna...2010/dean-kamen

at the 3:05 mark in the colbert vid the guy is eating cereal and using chopsticks with the arm. Unreal.

Edited by Sug, 14 February 2012 - 06:38 PM.

[Exilyth]

How about some quads?



btw, I use http://robots.net/ to keep updated on robotics.

[Anvil Dragon]

They're getting there slowly, balance is getting much better.
http://spectrum.ieee...nce-on-two-feet

[Burned_Follower]

Here are two of the 16 robots that i work with at my job:


I give the robots at my job pet names cuz they almost look like animals when they work,lol. This one i call Mackie because it's the first robot i ever operated, and last week it was the first robot i ever programmed. This MIG welding robot is mostly used to create trailer hitches, axles for ATVs, RTVs, riding lawn mowers and other stuff that Kubota puts out.


I can't keep track of all the stuff these robots make but so far i've used this specific robot to weld together front bumper guards for RTVs and ATVs. This specific one when used at it's full potential can be operated by two different people, creating up to three or four different parts(depending on how many jigs are in use) all at once. Only issue with this one is that you have to keep the MIG welding nozzle clean more than usual or it'll go NOMNOM on the parts causing perosity in the welds.

I've been a robotic welder at my job since August last year(been a welder since 2007) and just started on-the-job training to be a programmer last week. I'm actually going to college this fall for drafting school and then off to mechanical engineering school after that cuz i'm going to attempt to invent a real Battlemech(probably the size of the APU on Matrix Revolutions). Probably will take most of my life to make a practical prototype but it's only a matter of time now when the Battlemech comes out. Sure fusion reactors don't exist but there's nothing to stop me from putting a wankel engine in my prototype. And yes, i will call my prototype Mackie! WOOT
I don't have a pet name for this robot. Everybody just calls it "Robot#7". The previous robot i showed everybody calls "Robot#15"

[HanaYuriko]

You don't always need fingers.




As for more modern robots, here's PETMAN

[L zard]

Petman looks a whole lot like mech development! Wont be a long time with this sort of thing in the works!

[Exilyth]

The recent advances in robotics are amazing.

I wish neurobiology research was faster.... we still don't have neural interfaces.

[Anvil Dragon]

They are working on it:
http://www.npr.org/2...ght-into-action

Earlier work and game specific:
http://news.bbc.co.u...ogy/7254078.stm

I can imagine a future when the Clan mechs are gaming with a neural interface against the IS with their joysticks.

[Stargoat]

[L zard]

WOW!

[Burned_Follower]

[L zard]

Agro-mech? Now all they need to do is speed the feet!

[Sug]

Instead of building terrible robots they should focus on inventing myomer. Would make it sooooooo much easier to build giant robots.

[HanaYuriko]

Sug, on 17 February 2012 - 05:47 PM, said:

Instead of building terrible robots they should focus on inventing myomer. Would make it sooooooo much easier to build giant robots.

[Exilyth]

No motors involved...

[Jacob]

After watching that i am full of hope that artificial limbs are close.