It seems a bit clunky. Shape memory alloys based on thermal heating or voltage might be a better way to go in the future rather than mechanical actuators.
Re: The Pentagon is Building Transformers
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 6:52 am
by wormcode
Needs more technology & robots to help, repair, and create... and less to destroy IMO. Seems those ideas are behind this, but we'll have to see.
Re: The Pentagon is Building Transformers
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:29 am
by dutty_switch
wormcode wrote:Needs more technology & robots to help, repair, and create... and less to destroy IMO. Seems those ideas are behind this, but we'll have to see.
I can see a lot more practical domestic uses for this technology than using it as a weapon, unless you get your enemies to bend down really close to it and then have it poke them in the eye.
Fingers crossed for a self-building DJ stand.
Re: The Pentagon is Building Transformers
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:28 am
by wormcode
dutty_switch wrote:
wormcode wrote:Needs more technology & robots to help, repair, and create... and less to destroy IMO. Seems those ideas are behind this, but we'll have to see.
I can see a lot more practical domestic uses for this technology than using it as a weapon, unless you get your enemies to bend down really close to it and then have it poke them in the eye.
Fingers crossed for a self-building DJ stand.
Hahaha yeah. I'm sure that demonstration is pretty old though. Who knows what the classified version does by now. I bet there will be surges in people reporting transforming UFOs in the coming years.
