Alfred Urrutia wrote:
Anachronistic based on what criteria? You're speaking of a
fictionalized future here, until we see actual mecha in action (should
there ever be any) no one can say what does or doesn't fit.
Ahh... mechas are building 99% of automobiles of the world. An
inchworm mecha is the primary construction equipment for the ISS
(closest thing we have to space colony yet). Bug and worm-like
mechas, many of them autonomous robots, are performing most of the
maintenance for nuclear reactors and other hazardous places. The US
military deploy many mechas, including killing machines. I don't
think anyone has deployed a humanoid military robot yet, we have seen
many prototypes, but none deployed yet.
Says who? Making them humanoid (faces/heads) is a bit much, I'll grant
you, but something that walks has an advantage over rough terrain vs.
wheeled or tracked vehicles.
So you are saying someone first went and paved Moon and Mars surface
before Moon Buggy and Mars Rover made their joyride? But wait, aren't
bulldozers and every piece of large road-building and bridge-building
equipment also wheel-based and non-humanoid? All the legged practical
(not demonstrative) mechas I know of are quad- or hex-legged.
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Dr. Core
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