This is what non-commercial tech looked like back before the gold rush and vulture capital. Geeks and nerds in basements doing weird stuff that would be laughed at by most people on the street. Most STEM professions were middle class, not lottery tickets.
falsaberN1 39 minutes ago [-]
Makes perfect sense, in nature you have a lot of both practical and odd functionality out of filling "bags" with air or liquid.
This is a pretty cool approach. If they can improve the visual presentation it can also look pretty awesome. Gives me some inspiration for drawing scifi designs too.
giantg2 3 hours ago [-]
I would love to see this with nitinol wire muscles.
mhb 3 hours ago [-]
Power use would be immense and it would be insanely slow.
jrflo 38 minutes ago [-]
Considering 90%+ of the input energy goes to heat with NiTi actuators, Your walking robot would also double as a great space heater.
giantg2 1 hours ago [-]
Power use might be high depending on configuration, but speed shouldn't be that slow using capacitors. Sufficiently strong pneumatics tend to require quite a bit of power too.
This is a pretty cool approach. If they can improve the visual presentation it can also look pretty awesome. Gives me some inspiration for drawing scifi designs too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspy_Engineer
Thanks.