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- micromobility@lemmy.world
Because of course they are.
AI generated video here:
NGL - I kinda want to run around on an AI robot panther. Can we get 4 more, paint them different colors, and merge them into a giant robot? That would be sweet!
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I’m a cowboy… On a steel horse I ride!
Wasn’t the ATV invented because it covered most off-road situations to get around quicker?
Is this necessary? Seriously, we are heading into a climate crises (or more accurately, already in one) and now we need to manufacture this shit?
I mean, it theoretically runs on hydrogen so it’s zero emission. Beats a dirt bike!
Unless this thing runs on fossil fuels, I don’t think it’s really going to have a big impact on climate change.
I guess there’s an argument that this is taking away engineering hours from projects that might have more practical uses in addressing climate change but I’d counter that sometimes engineers need a break from their usual work to avoid burning out from tedious incremental tasks and rigid processes. A bit of time and space for experimentation can be helpful, reinvigorating, and can lead to future discoveries and inventions if done right.
Forget about Akira I want to look like POWER RANGER
Was wondering when this would be a thing
Finally
Worse horses
worses
I want a cyborg horse that can be ridden like a quad bike.
This is a concept for a hydrogen powered robot for 2050. There is no shot they’re developing this and even if they are it’s literally a quarter of a century from now. This is just marketing BS.
There is a physical model, but definitely not rideable, looks like it just barely leans up and down, but they did get something real to display:
Bet it sucks to ride tbh. I cannot imagine that being more comfortable than a motorcycle of any kind. There has to be better ways for rough terrain than reinventing the wheel. Bet the investors love it though so I suppose mission accomplished.
Why not? Our legs are already better than any wheel could ever get. Why not apply this to robots given they can be good enough
Because ambulation and passenger transportation aren’t the same thing otherwise the wings on planes would flap like a birds. As a passenger you’re gong to be very aware of the movements and it’s going to feel like shit.
If airplane wings could flap they absolutely would. Our biological equivalent is objectively better than any mechanical tech we have right now. It’s really hard to beat millions of years of evolution.
You can very easily smooth out passenger’s position same way a horse’s head feels comfortable on top of a horse.
Suspension exist, and if horses had built in suspension systems we wouldn’t have stopped using them.
Good riddens
I’m so angry I have to upvote this.
Giddyup Buttercup is gonna sue for patent infringement.
I kind of don’t know what to say 😳
So imagine far in the future scholars discussing, how heavy cavalry revolutionized XXI century warfare.
TBH something really useful would look more like a “General Grievous mode” exoskeleton.
Lightsabers would be good too.
I assume once equipped for warfare they’ll be packing like a 20mm cannon on the undercarriage, and crap out landmines.
Spitting out drones.
A cannon is good, but a vibro-pike like the old days would do too, imagine a robotic lancer charge at some terrified Muslim idiots.
I’m sorry but we already have horses. Things we don’t have which should be ridable are things like spiders, mice, sausages, millipedes, cats etc. Make one of those!
edit: looks like it walks more like a cat than a horse. I guess we’re getting a cat.
I’m surprised you didn’t also mention ostriches and really fast snails.
I’m off to work out the engineering for a millipede-kielbasa robo-hybrid.
That’s what I was thinking. 2nd thought: Does it come in green?
It’s a Kawasaki. So yes, yes it will
How long until Voltron?
Jesus fucking christ. These are horses, not lions!
