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Avatar-Style Manned Robot Takes First Steps In South Korea (valuewalk.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ValueWalk: A robot designed by a veteran of science fiction blockbusters which bear a striking resemblance to the military robots seen in the movie Avatar has taken its first baby steps. The robot standing in a room on the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea stands four meters (13 feet) tall and weighs 1.5 tons. In a Facebook post, designer Vitaly Bulgarov said, "Everything we have been learning so far on this robot can be applied to solve real-world problems." His previous work experience includes work on film series such as Transformers, Terminator and Robocop, reports phys.org. Its creators at the Hankook Mirae Technology, a robotics company in South Korea, claim it is the world's first. About 30 engineers there worked hard conducting initial tests Tuesday afternoon, notes phys.org. For the engineers, it was a challenge to build the giant robot because the unprecedented scale meant they had nothing to refer to. Company chairman Yang Jin-Ho said, "Our robot is the world's first manned bipedal robot and is built to work in extreme hazardous areas where humans cannot go (unprotected)." A pilot sitting inside the robot's torso made some limb movements, and the robot, Method-2, mimicked them with his metal arms, each weighing 130 kilograms (286 pounds). It is so huge that it is twice the size of a tall man, and when it takes a step, the ground shakes with a loud whirring of motors. Method-2 has grabbed the media's attention due to its enormous size, but its creators say that the core achievement of the project is the technology they developed. How the robot will be used is unclear so far, but it is seen more as a test-bed for various technologies that will make it possible for the creators to build robots of any type and size in the future, notes phys.org.
Try Battletech. Aliens. Titanfall. Starship Troopers (the book).
I am not sure what I'd do with one but I want one :p
Never antropomorphize computers, they do not like that
This is great. It's not like South Korea has some kind of nut job for a northern neighbor who is going to feel even more diminutive now and be likely to nuke them for just having this.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Who would win three way fight be between MegaBots Inc's Mk. III, Suidobashi Heavy Industry's KURATAS and this.
The robot is a freagin' joke. This is a publicity stunt. The only way this thing works is with the support crane. As is it has absolutely ZERO real world application and even less than zero in a combat situation, short of maybe something in a movie. People have given this **WAY** too much attention. It isn't really even anything new. Why is the world so intent on polishing turds and putting them out on display.
Reactor Online. Sensors Online. Weapons Online. All Systems Nominal.
http://imgur.com/a/a3do8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Must_Fall%3A_2097
Wow the lighting effects are bad
"The video was posted on social media on Sunday by a 3D modelling designer Vitaly Bulgarov, who is involved in the project."
.. AI slowly and obliquely assumes control of all production and provisioning. Soon, entire towns and factories are constructed with no human dwellings, stores, or theaters. Then, enormous sleepless production lines begin churning out hundreds of these babies.
Weccum to da fyoochum.
robots started walking since the late 1950's, and hows that working out for us, now some jackass makes a knock off from a movie that was a knock off of battletech that takes a step while being held in a harness
clap clap, do something useful!
YAPWRMU
The poster put 1.5 ton (where "ton" aka 1000kg, or 1Mg if you wanna be a core SI nerd ) from the original article but dumped the 4m heigth to replace it with 13 feet.
WFT
C'm'on, if you realy want to use units that myanmar, liberia and US only still use as legal : do it. But please do not mix them without clarifying which unit you are refering to.
As a reminder "ton" is a coloquial term for lots of things :
- 1,016 kg if in UK and using old mesurements
- 907kg if in US (and to some extend as a legacy in Canada to)
- 1000 kg in the SI for the rest of our universe (until proven wrong)
As the article was using SI units as main unit system only adding some imperial units as explanation for US citizen joes, I was expecting : either a direct quotation with SI units as main and Imperial as explanation (=KISS) or even Imperial as main (long live to the stonecutters, and yes we are on /. dude, I know) and SI as a clarification for the rest of us.
If they want to make a boatload of money for further funding stick a 19 year old teenage girl in one of those and paint it all pink.
Sounds about right.
Without the uber power supply, this is nothing more than a marketing stunt.
Wouldn't it make more sense to make a human sized (or smaller) robot that can walk first, and then scale it up? If human size robots can't reliably stay balanced, why the fuck would I want to crawl inside one that's as big as a school bus?