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Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 4.5-metre-tall (14.8-feet), four-wheeled robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam" from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can be yours for $3 million.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is unfortunately a lot less impressive than it looks, since it's wheeled and not bipedal.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Poggggggggggggg

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Baby steps ... oh wait

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"$3 mln" is somehow a lot less explanatory than "$3m"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was $3/min 🤷🏽‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

$3 million / minute

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's to draw a distinction from the similar "milliard", which means "billion" in British English but has fallen out of fashion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but has fallen out of fashion

It's a bit of a shame really, since it makes much more sense: How big is a billion?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I only go with SI units: Gigabucks

Anyone in possession of a billion dollars is a Gigabuckaroo

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn’t they build this years ago? I remember the lame arse “fight” with the US robot company.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes, like 10+ years ago.

Still a joke, not sure why they don't get a proper hydraulic control person involved in these projects.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the feeling that, seeing as hydraulics have been around for longer than robotics, it just isn't practicable to build a robot out of hydraulics - otherwise we'd have them already.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, you can't beat the power density of hydraulics and never will unless room temp superconductors become a thing.

Big Dog from Boston Dynamic was hydraulic.

Going that size or bigger, hydraulics is a must.

The reason you don't see it is hydraulics is a completely different ball game.

Controls researchers stick with small and electronic, because that's what they know.

It's very rare to find a controls engineer that understands hydraulics.

And the hydraulics experts out there, don't have the background for sophisticated control theory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hydraulics are more dangerous, though. Not sure they are up to it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why you say that. They are not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm saying this because of hydraulic leaks and because I have seen hydraulic machines go completely up in flames in less than a second.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

i think they had an idea, a good one, but then at the last moment realized that it was all too dangerous and expensive in practice.

then they tried doing some weird hybrid between “professional” wrestling and a documentary.

poor planning was the ultimate downfall. i had high hopes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

How long does this last against a c4-strapped drone swarm?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Movements kinda slow to be any real threat, nice try Skynet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just an iteration. They'll be there in no time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Looks more like the loader from Aliens, which (to me) is more interesting than Gundam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

US vs Japan mech battle take 2?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I was so hype to watch two big ass robots do nothing to each other.... I'm down for another hour long video, regardless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I dont know what i was really expecting from that fight but man was i disappointed. All the hype for what amounted to about a 5 second robot slap fight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'd expect a full-scale gundam to cost more than 3 million dollar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah you'd think there'd be some mention of what it's good for... seems to be a toy, reading between the lines of what the founder says

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Author needs to watch more Gundam

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Remember the end of Iron Man 1? Because I’m suddenly reminded of it…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

it looks like the Kuratas. isn’t this too dangerous to give to just anyone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Holy shit just 3 million!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That's just the exo-suit from “Aliens”