Forum - View topicINTEREST: Rideable Kuratas Robot Mecha Unveiled at Wonder Festival
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RoverTX
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10 KPH.....weak sauce. Now if they could just make it out run an Abram...
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Yosuke Suzuki
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its still a prototype and powered by diesel engine,of course its run slow. but who knows what they can do in the next few years. |
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RoverTX
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The Abram is diesel also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_AGT1500 I just wish they weren't going for the 'art piece', and instead where actually trying to sell it to crazy billionaires who actually would want something fully functional. If only Richard Branson was a Mecha geek instead of a space geek.... |
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Yosuke Suzuki
Posts: 77 Location: Indonesia |
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i don't know much about diesel engines,but,,i'm sure these two have different output,,and mechanism,,a diesel engine to powered a rideable robot,and to powered a battle tank is a bit differ.
let's just wait and see the development ,as i said before its still a prototype,but yes people can buy the protoype,, maybe they intended to sell it to advanced market,which other technician wants to research it more,, "Kurata also said in the interview that he hopes that his robot will encourage others to follow his example and create their own large-scale rideable robots." thats what i meant. |
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GhostShell
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Okay, watching the unit as it drove on the road made it seem that we were one step closer to maybe seeing a Patlabor-like world become reality. Very, very neat! Wonder what someone would think if they saw a Kuratas pull up behind their vehicle. Also wonder how long it would be before someone switched out the BB Gatling gun for a more lethal one.
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Barciad
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I wonder what Elon Musk would make of it? |
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Polycell
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Ole_Al
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The Abrams is using a turbine=jet engine not a regular car engine even if it can use diesel fuel. Get that right guys.
Based on the size restriction and the involved design, requirement, material it can't use a large engine. Probably motorbike size just like good old mecha animes. There are lots of engineering and traffic law problems with increasing size so there won't be larger version anytime soon. There are new electric in-wheel motors powerful enough and probably good for regular car speeds in the 70kph http://www.autoblog.com/2005/08/24/mitsubishi-testing-lancer-evo-with-in-wheel-electric-motors/ It's all just depends on money, time and the willingness to realize it. edit: latest wheel product http://www.proteanelectric.com/?page_id=158&post=229 still needs an engine to produce the electricity |
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