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To: NicknamedBob; Silentgypsy; Monkey Face; Dead Corpse

Hunter class defense spider size or bigger?
Hunter class is about the size of a respectable car and can be ridden in.


4,263 posted on 12/03/2012 5:25:06 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Darksheare
"Hunter class is about the size of a respectable car and can be ridden in."

That at a minimum. Consider: The easy way to power the spiderbot would be to just drop a standard power plant into it.

I might not want to go with the full lunar design, though. There really isn't a problem with heat flow, so spherical may be wasteful from an ergonomic viewpoint. More crablike, possibly.

And the ultra-redundancy wouldn't be needed, either. The arms could be dedicated, as also the legs. Still insectoidal, though. It's a stable platform that can maneuver anywhere.

One pictures a forest of levers to control the hydraulics. Not my way. I'd have the legs interconnected, and still controlled as I described it, with the operator using a harness.

The machine merely follows the operator's motions. When he walks, it walks. When he picks something up, the machine picks something up.

My design simplifies the matter of balance that a full-size mechanoid would have. If you've seen "Iron Man", the nemesis configuration that Tony Stark faces would be a typical mechanoid design. It's big so that it can be strong, but for a typical backyard work project it wouldn't be practical.

Picture something more like a zero-radius lawn mower, with legs instead of wheels, and you're getting closer.

4,267 posted on 12/03/2012 6:04:20 PM PST by NicknamedBob ("P" for present, "C" for coal, right, Bernard?)
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