Russia’s
Kalashnikov company built a 4-meter tall walking robot. It was shown at the Russian Army-2018 defence expo and there are plans for some capabilities demonstration in 2019.
There have been US and Japanese fighting robots for several years. The US megabot are 16 feet tall versus Russia’s 13-foot tall robot.
Megabots Eagle Prime is the world’s largest (16 ft. tall), heaviest (12-ton), most powerful (430 horsepower, V8 engine) and most expensive ($2.5M) sports combat robot in history.
The Megabot company almost ran out of money in early 2018.
MegaBots turned to DSTI for its track record in developing fluid sealing solutions for challenging rotating applications.
MegaBots’ Eagle Prime battled Kuratas in a fight to the [robot] death. After three rounds, Eagle Prime whipped out its massive chainsaw and dismembered Kuratas, putting an end to the carnage and becoming the world’s first giant fighting robot champion.
Even with a win under their belt, the MegaBots team felt there was still room for improvement. “We designed Eagle Prime to be able to control the battlefield, so each arm could pick up a 2,500lb car or punch through gigantic obstacles, but we realized during the fight arm speed matters more than strength,” said MegaBots co-founder Gui Cavalcanti.
MegaBots designed and built a new, faster arm with more human-like movements. They got rid of exposed hoses on the arm. DSTI manufactured a custom hydraulic rotary union that allows the hoses to be routed into the middle of the arm while providing 360 degrees of continuous shoulder rotation.
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Too bad these are useless other than for a bit of amusement. I will take the guy running around with a Javelin launcher 1km away.
Too bad these are useless other than for a bit of amusement. I will take the guy running around with a Javelin launcher 1km away.
Fairly confident its a PR stunt. Russian firms have done PR stunts with robots on several occasions, and combat engineering vehicles are typically very tough and very well armored. Like the D9-based drone bulldozers Israel uses. This is far too small to be good for anything other than free headlines.Russia’s own actual combat engineering vehicles are also heavily armored bulldozers or main battle tanks, all of which probably weigh at least 5 times as much as whatever that thing weighs. They all need the armor, considering they’re supposed to crash through buildings, trenches, explosives, and the like.
Fairly confident its a PR stunt. Russian firms have done PR stunts with robots on several occasions and combat engineering vehicles are typically very tough and very well armored. Like the D9-based drone bulldozers Israel uses. This is far too small to be good for anything other than free headlines.Russia’s own actual combat engineering vehicles are also heavily armored bulldozers or main battle tanks all of which probably weigh at least 5 times as much as whatever that thing weighs. They all need the armor considering they’re supposed to crash through buildings trenches explosives and the like.
What these robots need is just what Gundam 79 had: a shield.
What these robots need is just what Gundam 79 had: a shield.
I saw the youtube video of that thing. It just stands there. Outside. It’s a prop. Doesn’t move. Vaporware. Nothing more.
Just use a radio controlled tank and call it a day.
I saw the youtube video of that thing.It just stands there. Outside. It’s a prop. Doesn’t move. Vaporware. Nothing more.
Just use a radio controlled tank and call it a day.
…. …. …. Military applications? From the looks of it, this bipedal ‘Wanzer’ looks somewhat iffy in terms of locomotion to begin with … hydraulic actuators for the legs? …. what appears to be a high center of gravity, hmmmm … I would think that survivability would be an issue, I mean once spotted, conventional weapons should be able to make short work of it … Say even if you were to give it a ‘missileer’ configuration … I would think the basic design would be inferior to a conventional tracked or wheeled vehicle designed for that role.
Obviously, it’s a prop.
Reminds me of that video of Russian police “arresting” a robot in the middle of a crowd. The cringe factor was high, even for propaganda!
…………Military applications? From the looks of it this bipedal ‘Wanzer’ looks somewhat iffy in terms of locomotion to begin with … hydraulic actuators for the legs? …. what appears to be a high center of gravity hmmmm … I would think that survivability would be an issue I mean once spotted conventional weapons should be able to make short work of it … Say even if you were to give it a ‘missileer’ configuration … I would think the basic design would be inferior to a conventional tracked or wheeled vehicle designed for that role.
Obviously it’s a prop.
Reminds me of that video of Russian police arresting”” a robot in the middle of a crowd. The cringe factor was high”””” even for propaganda!”””
The big match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTkVrRkziDI A few seconds into the first match, it becomes obvious it’s a bad idea to have fragile humans inside the “bots”. Something more agile would destroy these things in close combat because they are not exactly like Transformers. However, modern weapons are too powerful and close combat is probably not realistic.
The big match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTkVrRkziDIA few seconds into the first match it becomes obvious it’s a bad idea to have fragile humans inside the bots””.Something more agile would destroy these things in close combat because they are not exactly like Transformers. However”””” modern weapons are too powerful and close combat is probably not realistic.”””
This isn’t going to replace WWE, that’s for sure
This isn’t going to replace WWE that’s for sure
If we’ve learned anything, just circling around it in an airspeeder trailing a grapple line behind will trip up an AT-AT, and surely this too.
If we’ve learned anything just circling around it in an airspeeder trailing a grapple line behind will trip up an AT-AT and surely this too.
WTF – System removing links. Get rid of this useless discussion forum. Linking references to the discussion is 50% of the point of all this. useless !
This is what we want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WfMJAMXaXU Or maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZIcA6dXNBQ
WTF – System removing links.Get rid of this useless discussion forum. Linking references to the discussion is 50{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} of the point of all this.useless !
This is what we want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WfMJAMXaXUOr maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZIcA6dXNBQ
What these robots need is just what Gundam 79 had: a shield.
Fairly confident its a PR stunt. Russian firms have done PR stunts with robots on several occasions, and combat engineering vehicles are typically very tough and very well armored. Like the D9-based drone bulldozers Israel uses. This is far too small to be good for anything other than free headlines.Russia’s own actual combat engineering vehicles are also heavily armored bulldozers or main battle tanks, all of which probably weigh at least 5 times as much as whatever that thing weighs. They all need the armor, considering they’re supposed to crash through buildings, trenches, explosives, and the like.
Too bad these are useless other than for a bit of amusement. I will take the guy running around with a Javelin launcher 1km away.
Haven’t you caught on yet? To post a web link you need to put invisible break symbols in the middle of the url so that the comment system doesn’t remove it.
Cut and paste from the stripper who spams us.
WTF – System removing links.
Get rid of this useless discussion forum. Linking references to the discussion is 50% of the point of all this.
useless !
This is what we want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WfMJAMXaXU
Or maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZIcA6dXNBQ
If we’ve learned anything, just circling around it in an airspeeder trailing a grapple line behind will trip up an AT-AT, and surely this too.
This isn’t going to replace WWE, that’s for sure
The big match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTkVrRkziDI
A few seconds into the first match, it becomes obvious it’s a bad idea to have fragile humans inside the “bots”.
Something more agile would destroy these things in close combat because they are not exactly like Transformers. However, modern weapons are too powerful and close combat is probably not realistic.
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Military applications? From the looks of it, this bipedal ‘Wanzer’ looks somewhat iffy in terms of locomotion to begin with … hydraulic actuators for the legs? …. what appears to be a high center of gravity,
hmmmm … I would think that survivability would be an issue, I mean once spotted, conventional weapons should be able to make short work of it … Say even if you were to give it a ‘missileer’ configuration … I would think the basic design would be inferior to a conventional tracked or wheeled vehicle designed for that role.
Obviously, it’s a prop.
Reminds me of that video of Russian police “arresting” a robot in the middle of a crowd. The cringe factor was high, even for propaganda!
I saw the youtube video of that thing.
It just stands there. Outside.
It’s a prop. Doesn’t move. Vaporware. Nothing more.
Just use a radio controlled tank and call it a day.