A Real Mech Warrior

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Japanese robotics and machineries manufacturer Sakakibara-Kikai has developed the world’s first bi-pedal exoskeleton, bringing the battlemechs and cyborg technology found in sci-fi movies and novels into reality.
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all the things that i could do...I COULD PWN THE UNIVERSE!

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does anyone see this as a bad thing?

your thoughts?
 
I wish I could find Glenns post of when this was posted before, it was hilarious.

it was something like "This is completly crap, it doesn't even walk, it shuffles"
 
lol, those vids are great. Esp. the one where the mech shoots its weapons. There's a dog in background going barking mad, literally.
 
I just hope the Japanese don't get their hands on Michael Crichton's Prey. :x
Honestly, this search for the ultimate weapon crap needs to stop. I am opposed to anything robotic on a battlefield. :|
 
^^ Surely better than humans on a battlefield (excluding a skynetesque scenario)?
 
French Ninja said:
I just hope the Japanese don't get their hands on Michael Crichton's Prey. :x
Honestly, this search for the ultimate weapon crap needs to stop. I am opposed to anything robotic on a battlefield. :|
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may I ask why?
 
meh, that was ok. Would be fun to drive one, but in a war scenario, those things suck.

"LETS MOVE ON LITTLE WHEELS WHILE IT LOOKS LIKE WE ARE WALKING..*shuffle shuffle*

no.
 
A mech warrior is the pilot, the mech itself is just called a mech.

And the difference between a mech and a mecha is that the mech is a vehicle whereas the mecha is an exo-skeleton (difference being that the exo-skeleton requires your own body-movement rather than pressing a speeder).

People never get it right.
 
Both can be classified as Giant Robots, even though technically they're not.

Giant robots!

Wow, amazing. It can shuffle extremely slowly and wobble uncertainly around the place as long sa there's a flat surface. THE FUTURE OF WARFARE IS HERE.

I guess it's still pretty cool.
 
Ah yes, the brilliant idea of mechs on the battlefeild.... Vehcles that are slow, incapable of traversing rough terrain and cant mount large guns. It's shear brilliance. Much better than tanks! I mean it's not like a single RPG/grenade/bullet in the leg would not only immobileise them but send them crashing to the ground is it?
 
I can't help thinking hovercraft might not be a bad idea.
 
I think this post starting to get mega-ultra-super-duper-garrycooper-itookapooper-looper-shooper-nooper-mooper-
grouper-zooper-neapolatin-monkeynuts-gayfart-poop-unhappy-smelly-gay-dumb.
 
Que-Ever said:
may I ask why?
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Robots have no ethics.
Robots can't tell what is a civilian and what isn't.
And if "Prey" like robots were ever created, you might as well say good bye to privacy and millions of jobs around the world; and there would be no way to stop it.

Exoskeletons are cool, though. :D
 
Yeah, I can just imagine someone reading Prey and going 'zomg, what a great idea! I'd better get down to the lab and get started right away!' :(
 
a human-sized robotic armor for a regular soldier would be more efficient
 
Except that by the time we have that kind of technology it'll probably be easy to stick kevlar under their skin.

I really don't think robots, mechs or exoskeletons will ever be used in warfare; simply because by the time our mechanical expertise gets that far we'll be able to to better stuff with the structure of the human body.
 
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