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Robosaurus could eat that little toy for lunch. Made in America!

Let's skip the bullshit, just show up with your pet robot

Those iBooks will be YOURS!

Big difference: he's using mechanical linkages and hydraulics to operate it--not electronically controlled motors.

Have you ever watched a backhoe operator working? Or, for that matter, driven a car? It's a matter of relying on muscle memory to adjust for slop in the mechanism.

I don't think his project is much different than other machines on the monster-truck circuit (read center paragraph for a riveting description of two giant battling robots). This guy's design is most notable in that it departs from the traditional transforming metal dino-sar theme.

The point is it's not rocket science to design a "control system" for what are basically jerry rigged front-end loaders. In fact, it's demolition derby science: rocket science's archnemesis.

Granted, it would be a bit more tricky to get it to actually walk, but I imagine the operators will just wheel the thing out on a flatbed and wave it's arms around a bit and shoot flames. All his talk of military and forest fighting capabilities is just successful buzz to get rednecks like me out at the local speedway.

The problems in this area are *control* problems. Read the guy's web site. He doesn't give me a lot of confidence he knows what those problems really are. Actually building the Mecha is straightforward. The hard part is keeping it from falling down and letting it be controlled efficiently. Otherwise, this is just going to be like Robosaurus. Good for monster-truck showpieces, but pitiful at any real hand-to-hand combat.

And as for the stuff being in the research phase, Sarcos Corp, which is linked to in my other post, has solved them using the research pointed to by the links. (Look at the giant arm holding the ANVIL like it was a frying pan.)

Sorry there wasn't a whole lot of flashy pictures in the links, and only *concepts*. But someone with a brain would read and observe what's on the other side of the links, note the long-ago dates of a lot of the research, and realize that such Mecha are actually within out technical reach. All we need is funding!

Surprising to see no one linked to the official website, also for a great deal more pictures,
google pictures to the rescue.

Imagine sending this over to Iraq.... we know it's useless as an effective weapon against bombs and stuff, but they don't....be great to just scare the hell out of 'em.

cool pic from 'robosaurus in action'..

Robo is the "World's Largest Transformer". Robo converts to a street legal Semi-Trailer for travel on the nations highways.

I don't know about you, but I'd be freakin' scared seeing this driving down the road next to me.

Check out the Waldo style user interface this thing has.

because US would lost on mass scale production,

What they did (US) =>
#1

What was asked (Japan) =>
#1 #2

Tell that to the robosaurus

The first thing the Redneck Skynet controlled was... Robosaurus! Half dinosaur and half robot this 42' tall, 30 ton fire breathing robot picks up and eats full size cars and airplanes at show sites around the world.

Yes, that welding bit is a bit of a problem. Fortunately, welding gear is affordable, if not exactly cheap, and just because they don't own any it doesn't mean they've never used any.

By the way, this is by no means the first effort of it's type: take a look at this. Unfortunately, many of their links only exist in the web archive.

However, some work as stated: http://bitter.swee.to/gundam.html
This one seems to be one or both of the following: a hoax, and a BattleBot or equivalent. (It's the conspiracy bits in the engrish that make me wonder)
MekaToro

Of course, I had to save the best for last. Take a look at RoboSaurus.

The only changes I'd make are:
1. Rip out the flamethrower. It'll look like fire when you've got the muzzleflash from a 20mm Vulcan going full blast.
2. Add a pair of BOFORS 40mm cannon to each arm. From what I'm told, it would perform just fine against hard targets, and they're very well recoil-dampened.

By the way, I'm the former Anonymous Coward that posted the link to MechaPS.com; I just registered because I've been reading this site more and more lately.