What's the point of a bipedal robot anyway? Isn't that what treads are for?
What's the point of a bipedal robot anyway? Isn't that what treads are for?
Lucas Powell
Eli Clark
>not wanting a bipedal robot with tread feet
Anthony Lewis
Kicking.
Ryan Taylor
Then why dont you replace your legs with threads?
Michael Thompson
If you ask me, it's gotta be a joke.
Not only is making a robot walk on two legs a technical nightmare, but there's no point in making a walking robot to begin with.
Putting legs on a robot would raise its clearance, increasing its frontal projection area. It'd also be less stable.
Suppose the legs help the robot travel on bad roads... I don't see the logic in that. Isn't that what treads are for?
I mean, anybody who'd seriously consider making a thing like that has got to be a retard.
Joshua Butler
Because it looks cool.
Christopher Allen
Mecha seem way too top heavy to be of any practical use. Maybe mecha suits but not huge ass robots.
Jonathan Lee
>Choose your Character
YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE
Josiah Cox
I think smaller spider mechs do have some sort of future for fighting in bombed out city ruins but bigger stuff there is no hope.
But they will make them anyway for symbolic stuff, after a battle is pretty well won you bring the mech in to crush the last enemy holdout or something
Thomas Allen
feds should've invested more into balls instead
Grayson Myers
Based & Sigint pilled.
Luke Bennett
It helps you channel your spiral power
Henry Nguyen
How am I supposed to kick some ass in a robot with no legs?
Anthony Russell
With a mech that can't be tripped.
Colton Rodriguez
Don't you mean Getter Energy?
Asher Gutierrez
Idk but a humanoid giant robot seems to me that it could be more multipurpose than any given huge ass machine designed specifically for any given task. Just give it the right tools for the job and it could literally do anything a normal sized human could do but in much larger scale. Mining an asteroid and suddenly someone attacks you and your crew? No sweat, just grab your gigantic missile launcher/machine gun/whatever and fend off the threat.
Hunter Wilson
4 legs would be better.
Joshua Powell
In what way would that be better?
Brody Wilson
Where would you put the dick then?
Joshua Martin
Mass Puruoduction raises a lot of questions. How feasible and widespread is cloning in the UC? Doesn't seem like Glemy had a lot of trouble farting out 12 of them on a short notice and unbeknownst to his superior. If it was more than a cutting edge, personal project, wouldn't it make sense for many of the grunts to be carbon copies of each other? All the Purus we've seen have been highly competent pilots, after all.
Christian Ramirez
>Mass Puruoduction
Honestly even if it's pretty expensive it's clearly effective with the right source. Even if you didn't need pilots for war having dozens of Purus around could be very helpful.
Xavier Lee
>can't even kick
NGMI
Ethan Gray
And cool sunglasses
Connor Cox
It won't fall over when confronted by a strong wind.
Jaxson Sanchez
I think he means it would be better than two legs. It has all the extra clearance of legs, but it's more stable than just two.
Still not as stable as treads or something, of course. If we're going for purely practicality and function rather than rule of cool, the best way to use legs would be to make a tank, have legs that can fold out, push it over an obstacle, then put the tank down and fold back up.
Juan Thompson
hi
Nolan Davis
Treads still only work on diagonal surfaces at best.
Anything that requires lateral movement fucks it over
Robert Diaz
>treads are better than legs
>humans evolved legs and not treads
?????
Jace Murphy
humans had legs way before threads
Carson Sanchez
I always thought that mecha like that would be nice to have as a construction machine, that's easy to pilot, because it behaves exactly like pilot's body. A universal machine to move heavy stuff around.
Liam Bennett
>Zam
Good evening bitch.
It's me.
Your Da.
Colton Bell
>he doesn't have treads
W-what? Post proof.
Brody Roberts
I can understand pointing out that we don't currently have the level of technology to make bipedal robots that are efficient but I don't understand arguing that bidepidelism is a bad idea. Do you walk on 4 limbs like a gorilla? If it works for you then what makes it a fundamentally flawed design ? The only thing that doesn't agree with this design is our level of technology, and 99% of the reason is because human feet are mechanically difficult to reproduce. The last 1% is to reproduce the sense of balance but we already reproduced it effectively in modern robots.
Xavier Cruz
There is an insect that naturally involved a mechanism that looks like gears. Threads aren't far off, but legs are just 2 good.
Mason Morales
The advantage of anthropomorphic mecha is interfacing. And if technology allows it's a fairly efficient form.