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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A lot of people have covered the square cube law, that’s a significant engineering barrier. However theres also the issue of practicality. The first significant problem with a large biped robot as a weapons platform is that it can fall over. How much damage would the top part of it receive if a 50ft tall robot just like tripped? Never mind the insane difficulty of just designing something that size that can be mobile.
If you can just mount missiles and cannons on tanks, artillery, warships and planes why bother with a hugely complicated giant walking robot?
Pacific Rim looked cool, but if we got attacked by actual Kaiju the solution would be to just blast them with missiles launched from literal miles away. It would probably only take one. They make bunker buster missiles that can penetrate multiple layers of steel reinforced concrete THEN explode. Nothing organic could hope to withstand that.
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