[QUOTE=Joazzz;51546088]wouldn't it be a better idea to make the hips a little wider, to distribute the weight sideways?[/QUOTE]
So it will have a good excuse to manspread on the subways? Are you sexist??????
[QUOTE=Joazzz;51546088]wouldn't it be a better idea to make the hips a little wider, to distribute the weight sideways?[/QUOTE]
I think that would increase the distance it would have to swing from side to side with each step in order to maintain balance. It already seems to be swinging so wildly from side to side I imagine it'd be hard for a pilot to keep their lunch down for extended rides.
I'm was surprised it walks tbh.
Wouldn't making it shorter and stubbier create more balance and loading capacity? It could probably do wonders in logistics already, but you kind of want it to not fall over and be stuck in recovery all the time.
Needs an ejector seat.... For... Safety.
Something looks off about it. The reflections look weird. Also weird for 2 people to be sitting at a desk 10 feet away from the 20 foot tall walking prototype giant robot. Also note that one of the guys working on this and distributing media is literally known for making photo realistic renders of mech concepts. For now Im going to say this is CGI.
this picture also looks off.
[t]https://i.imgur.com/ROe12tO.jpg[/t]
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color me skeptical but willing to be proven wrong
you say something looks "off" and reflections are "weird"
can you elaborate?
More of a gut feeling. Maybe its too shiny? Im not sure. In the picture I linked, the lighting looks off. Again I cant definitively put my finger on what is throwing me off but I think its the area below the knee joint. It looks oddly murky and washed out.
This is just a gut feeling though.
Dont trust everything you see on the internet.
[QUOTE=Fish Muffin;51559822]Something looks off about it. The reflections look weird. Also weird for 2 people to be sitting at a desk 10 feet away from the 20 foot tall walking prototype giant robot. Also note that one of the guys working on this and distributing media is literally known for making photo realistic renders of mech concepts. For now Im going to say this is CGI.
this picture also looks off.
[t]https://i.imgur.com/ROe12tO.jpg[/t]
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color me skeptical but willing to be proven wrong[/QUOTE]
And it looks way too polished and greebly, especially for a supposed prototype of something that advanced -- compare that to Boston Dynamics and Big Dog, where we started out with videos of a ragged-looking blob of welds trudging awkwardly around a parking lot.
maybe that black version is a proof of concept thing, like a 1:1 scale model of the planned final outer shell?
if it's a fake, it's a good one
Well Boston dynamics made a robot that sensed the terrain, made adjustments on the fly, self stabilised
Really complicated things using lasers, gyroscopic stabilisers and hundreds of days of computing all by itself.
This mech walked forward on flat ground very slowly being controlled.
You can get toys from your local supermarket for less than £20 that can do THAT.
Granted, it had a lot more moving parts, but my point is, it wouldn't be the [B]HARDEST[/B] thing in the world to build for a team of good engineers.
I can't wait for North Korea to respond to this with a 12 inch tall plastic model with forced perspective so it looks large. To prove it's not fake and it moves, they make a stopmotion video
how long before titans are a reality?
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[QUOTE=Joazzz;51550752]are we talking about the "agile airdropped battle suit" ones or the "huge lumbering engine of apocalyptic destruction that praises the Machine God" ones?[/QUOTE]
yes
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