Land Walker

wolf4life · Post by **wolf4life** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 5:57 pm

LOL

the thing is slow as crap but its pretty cool

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... ID=5860682

Aki · Post by **Aki** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:08 pm

It can't really be titled a walker.

The legs have wheels on them. It doesn't walk so much as skate, because the feet never leave the ground. But it is certainly cool.

Kaebora · Post by **Kaebora** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:49 pm

I've seen this before. There's another video out there of it fireing nerf balls from those mounted guns.

tyger · Post by **tyger** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:57 pm

we're one step closer to having ED-209 from robo cop!

Teh_DarkJokerWolf · Post by **Teh_DarkJokerWolf** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:06 am

I swear I saw this on the A-kon 18 page, but it's gone now of course

JoshuaMadoc · Post by **JoshuaMadoc** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:35 am

Needs a lot of obvious improvements, considering it's a prototype. Namely like some sort of stabilizer for the legs for it to walk like a man, powerbox systems for leg strength, some kind of pneumatic(?) tubes that shoot air to eliminate foot noise, reduce self-inflicted damage when said mecha lands on foot from a jump, and probably also pavement damage... This is like on the legs alone.

Oh, and a nice cup of up the f*** shut to the commenters saying it's a waste of time and money -- OF COURSE PROTOTYPES USUALLY LOOK UGLY. It's not like in 5 years we'll all be able to ride on Wanzer-lookalikes. What kind of a rabid fanboy expectation is that?

While the crazy japanese work on their mechateering, people should take a look at this:

http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/robotsuithal/index.html

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q ... ages&gbv=2

MoonKit · Post by **MoonKit** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:57 am

kitetsu wrote:
http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/robotsuithal/index.html

I like that they went out of the way to put the shiny blue circles on it for that picture.

Interesting find!

JoshuaMadoc · Post by **JoshuaMadoc** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:09 am

I seriously don't know if it's cosmetic or it's supposed to be for some unknown function, but i thought it was cute.

RedEye · Post by **RedEye** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:52 pm

Needs a tail for balance, if they try to actually get it to walk. It seriously needs more power as well- according to the info, it uses a 250 cc motorcycle engine for power, and the controls consist of four foot pedals.

The tubes were for firing rubber balls out of-betch'a they could be adapted for duckies...since Fig isn't into 'bikes.