Japan startup develops 'Gundam'-like robot with $3 mln price tag
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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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yes, like 10+ years ago.
Still a joke, not sure why they don't get a proper hydraulic control person involved in these projects.
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.
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.