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Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games (apnews.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

With drones on your side you dont really need exits and artillery is one of the main casualties of drones because even fiber optics drones are now up to 50km in range. Rover drones currently have problems with 1 meter ditches because they can't cross them. The question is always logistics and having a drone that can cross hard terrain is always better than one that can't. That's why hover drones are so effective. They are cheap and able to traverse every terrain in a big radius of operations

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    Well, you actually need exits unless your plan always was 'die in a bunker without exits'.

    hover drones aren't all that cheap and require either very good crpa gnss antenna, or some kind of visual inertial odometry. Or you'll get althold at best, which isn't really hovering more like flying with the wind. Flying drones are effective because they are cheap, hovering drones (the multi-use ones) are prone to dying to kamikadze drones, they are big, loud, hot, and not very good at transporting things compared to rovers (logistics as you mentioned), one successfull delivery by rover compares to 10-20 deliveries by flying drone.

    Still not clear to me how exactly flying drone superiority when traversing hard terrain = bipedal robots are a good idea.

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