I’ve heard building mechas is really difficult but there is no problem in building small humanoid robots (Boston Dynamics). So can’t we just upscale them and make mechas this way?

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I’ve heard building mechas is really difficult but there is no problem in building small humanoid robots (Boston Dynamics). So can’t we just upscale them and make mechas this way?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

I believe the biggest hurdle right now to make anything like that is the power supply. If we stumbled upon a arc reactor like Iron Man that was super powerful, light weight and cheap enough to produce to make it worthwhile, I imagine we could do some amazing things