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eig | 4 months ago

Presumably they want to eventually put a human inside it, in which case having a humanoid robot to work off of wouldn't change the aero calculations and designs too much. The article talks about specific design considerations to avoid the exhaust gases.

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voidUpdate|4 months ago

Gravity Industries already has that sorted https://gravity.co/ . I was almost expecting this robot to just be a humanoid robot with one of those suits on

legacynl|4 months ago

Looking at the 'hands' of this robot, it looks to be exactly that.

bArray|4 months ago

> Presumably they want to eventually put a human inside it [..]

I'm imagining a team just putting the organs of a human into the robot to save on space. Basically a brain plus whatever is absolutely necessary to run the brain.

stavros|4 months ago

Wasn't that Robocop 3?