Wanna see an 18-foot-tall nine inch nail-shooting, flame-thrower-equipped robot?

Quiet Storm

Quiet Storm

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As Carlos Owens Jr. envisions it, the humanoid machine he's building will shoot nine-inch nails from the shoulders and 20-foot flames from the forearms.
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The red backlit eyes of his 18-foot hydraulic mecha - please don't call it a robot - will glow, but they're just for show. Five cameras will be the real eyes, allowing the operator riding inside the steel contraption to see via a laptop computer and flatscreen monitor rigged inside.
When it's all done, he'll have a walking exoskeleton that will make him stronger than a grizzly bear, he said.
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Besides mild steel - stainless would be too expensive - 23 hydraulic cylinders are woven throughout, giving the mecha 46 possible movements. An 18-horsepower gas engine will provide the power and a car battery the juice for the computer, cameras, lights and sound effects. Fiberglass skin will allow the operator to stay fully hidden.
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Oops, maybe I should've posted this in G&G...sorry.
 
I think I'd want to run it on a long tether by remote the first few times. I don't want to be bolted into a couple tons of experimental steel monster in case I've misjudged a hydraulic valve or something like that. It'd suck to have your creation break your leg off the first time you fired it up for a test run. Other than that though, it's pretty cool.

John
 
I wonder if it will even be able to stand up by itself? The latest stuff I've read is that they're not even close to perfecting robots that an walk on two legs. Honda has one they give demonstrations with (ASIMO) . I guess theirs can go up and down stairs and stuff but it still falls over fairly easy, and I'd guess that they have a lot more research behind it than this guy, as cool as that looks. How'd like to put all that time and money into something thats going to roll around on the ground like an 18ft tall infant? :D
 
That isn't a robot, Matt -- it's an exoskeleton. Ever read Heinlein's Starship Troopers?
 
Mr. yuzuha is exactly correct. Survival Research Laboratories is where you want to go for robot fighting action. I love their videos. The giant tesla coil is my favorite.
 
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