Comment on Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strengthparentComments−Cthulhu_12yYeah, it'd need to be combined with research going on atm with bipedal robots; they'd have to be able to keep themselves balanced.−gadders12yOr just have really heavy "feet". That's what the big block of steel/concrete on the back of a forklift is for.−TeMPOraL12yYeah, but automated balancing might be significantly more energy efficient than sticking quater-ton blocks of metals to the feet.−gadders12yMaybe you could use the extra mass to provide super-protective steel toe caps, as per a comment above :-)
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Yeah, it'd need to be combined with research going on atm with bipedal robots; they'd have to be able to keep themselves balanced.
Or just have really heavy "feet". That's what the big block of steel/concrete on the back of a forklift is for.
Yeah, but automated balancing might be significantly more energy efficient than sticking quater-ton blocks of metals to the feet.
Maybe you could use the extra mass to provide super-protective steel toe caps, as per a comment above :-)