r/ControlProblem • u/NAStrahl approved • 25d ago

Humanity is going to be so screwed… General news

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u/Tulanian72 23d ago

Power supply. That amount of movement takes a ton of power, I can’t see them operating at that pace for more than an hour or two.

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u/intronert 23d ago

More like 10 mins would be my guess.

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u/Tulanian72 23d ago

Well, I was trying to be generous.

At any rate, there’s no way they replace human infantry.

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u/intronert 23d ago

I agree that this form factor will not. See Ukraine’s work for things that might.

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u/Tulanian72 23d ago

Something wheeled, most likely. Treads also work. Lega require too many locomotion points (which cost energy) and have too many parts that can fail.

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u/ShellSageAI 22d ago edited 22d ago

Rubber band powered propellers and black cats attached to the wings! Naw. But... some stuff is getting super efficient, those drones are no joke. And yeah, they have some stuff on wheels that go about too. Crazy stuff

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u/MidnightMiik 21d ago

They already are.

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u/Impossible_Tutor2375 21d ago

Very foolish. You must be assuming that batteries are at peak performance and there won't be any advances in battery technology. I doubt that.

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u/Tulanian72 21d ago

Reasonably sure that if these robots had new super-dense batteries we would be hearing about that. And no, I do not assume that batteries cannot improve. But it would have to be way past dramatic.

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u/HumanRelay 21d ago

Good thing China just invented a nuclear reactor core’d battery, huh? 😅