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    Unitree enthüllt: GD01, einen bemannten, transformierbaren Mecha

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    1. Sirisian on

      Sci-fi depictions of larger robots are fairly common, but we haven’t seen too many examples yet in the real world. Some applications people have thought of before have simply been scaled up humanoid frames for moving large objects with the dexterity of a human. Like lifting objects into place. This seems early, but it’s interesting nonetheless to see companies already investigating with larger frames and human control systems.

    2. Doctor_Box on

      Pretty awkward to get into. Call me when it’s like Titanfall where I can grapple at my mech and it can grab me and toss me inside.

    5. Loki-L on

      Was the part of the video that showed a person inside the mecha while it was moving, really showing a person?

      Between the helmet and the lack of movement of any arms etc, it looked like it may have been just a dummy.

      You never see it move even a tiny bit with an actual human visible near it. You have to wonder how many takes it took before they got one without it falling over.

      This appears to be quite far from being useable either way.

      The cockpit should rotate as the robot „transforms“ from 2 to 4 legged.

      There should also be some steps to make it less awkward to climb into it.

      The hands don’t look like they actually open up.

      Sadly, we are not yet at the level of Patlabor.

    6. Reasonable_Scheme273 on

      Congratulations to all the rich people who were getting bored from having nowhere left to spend their money — now you’ve got a new toy

    8. GuysImConfused on

      That thing looks like it would have 5mins of battery power on a good day.

    9. fourthdawg on

      I love mecha since I’m a fan of Gundam and another mecha anime alike, but as much as I want a manned bipedal giant robot to become a thing, unfotunately they’re just doesn’t make any sense in real life. The structural rigidity and integrity needed for it not collapsing on itself may requires some exotic materials that doesn’t exist yet. Even the example from this demonstration is pretty much a bare exoskeleton with without any outer shell. This demo unit is only roughly 3 or 4 meter tall, pretty small for the typical giant mecha depiction from anime, which is on the average 18-20 meter, but even on smaller size it needs a serious weight reduction for it to be able to stand and carrying people without trouble. I doubt this Unitree mecha can do anything useful beside carrying a single grown adult, let alone carrying heavier payload like construction material and maybe heavy weaponry.

    10. TF-Fanfic-Resident on

      Going from “robots barely exist outside of Roombas and factory robots that are welded to the floor” to “transforming mechs” in under a decade. Humans are bonkers.

    11. ApprehensiveStand456 on

      This looks like the North Korean exosuit in Iron Man 2. I think I say a Iron Man suit there, I guess as a homage.

    13. Euripidaristophanist on

      Clearly, a lot of people here don’t understand the concept of a prototype

    14. SandboxSurvivalist on

      This is fuckin‘ dumb. Obviously the seat was a total afterthought. The guy could barely get his legs in. And what’s the point of the „conversion“ if the rider/driver can’t see in front of them in that mode?

    16. SugarClear on

      It is apparently a lot of guys in this thread are not in engineering field and cannot understand appearance or ergo or comfy is the least important and least technology required thing in this kind of application

    19. HugsandHate on

      The uh.. ‚manned‘ part seems a bit surplus to requirement.

      And with these kind of projects. I always wonder… Why?

      It’s wildly inferior to say, the works of Boston Dynamics.

      What’s the point in making a crappier product?

    21. KeepTheNolander on

      Weird that it can’t lower the cockpit to make it easier to get into.

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