What happened to Giant Walking Machines? 

It had problems with snow speeders that could shoot towlines, and tiny teddybears with spears

I heard that the Russians built wanted their walker to be able to cross swamps. So, the scientists followed moose a round to see how they did it. Only to find that the moose would go around the swamp.

I feel like everything robotic on two legs have to look futuristic but never a box on legs.

The US just wanted an AT-ST

Get in the damn Pedipulator, Shinji!

That machine would have been terrifying at night on the battlefield

Get in the robot, Shinji! Or the KGB will sabotage it again.

Ewoks are the reason why we can't have nice things.

They'd need to make this thing look at least 35% less derpy to get my support lol

Broke: "What happened to giant walking machines?" Woke: "How feasible is METAL GEAR?"

Ah yes Star Trek the very first Sci Fi universe that comes to mind when I think of giant walking machines.

The balancing solution is actually pretty ingenious. I think one tech that could greatly boost this would be artificial muscles. The main problem would remain power, however.

A donkey does transport functions across rough territory, including mountains and jungles, is able to execute voice commands, is low profile / low visible, is able to self fuel using local plant resources, can swim, is not harmed by water and is very cheap. They even self replicate.

i think its hilarious that mobile suits are mostly possible and we've tried our goddamn hardest to build them and we just never had the money or practical application for them

If we chased this tech tree far enough, we could've had Battlemechs by now

Obligatory "A weapon to surpass Metal Gear!" comment

METAL GEAR!!!????

A two legged sidewinder, thunderbirds fans will understand

Anakin Skywalker called. He wants to talk to you about those Imperial walkers. 😁

A couple of machine guns and a medium laser and you've got a Locust 1V prototype. :)

We sent them all to Pandora to enslave blue cat aliens.

2:40 I like the worried looking little girls in the background watching the robotic arms twirling a hula hoop!

Obviously what we need are blimps that float just above the ground with little cords that shoot out and allow it to pull itself along the ground. Bonus points for using science to make the cords stiffen and launch the thing along.

Man, you gotta love the 50s, what a time to be a drugged out engineer

The issue with mechs will always stem from a few difficult problems to solve. 1. The pressure exerted by the surface of the foot will be too large and will always fall short when compared to tracked vehicles. 2. The amount of power needed to actuate the hydraulics and/or pneumatic cylinders is too far a technological leap from today's capabilities. 3. The mobility boost you would get from the mech and being bipedal wouldn't be as beneficial as one would think because of the weight and balance issue as stated in issue 1. 4. Materials. The amount of strength the legs would need to hold up the chassis + anything else the arms need to lift up would be insane. We would also need to make the entire chassis out of a high strength, low density material which is extremely expensive. Although I love mechs and wish a company would take on a project like this again, it's very unlikely. IIRC, the clip we see at 13:09 is of a company based in Korea that went under numerous sexual harassment issues and eventually shut down. The Kuratas which is based in Japan and the mech MegaBots produced are the closest we have a an actual functioning mech in today's world. Hopefully Boston Dynamics makes significant breakthroughs within our lifetime so this idea and tech can be pushed further!

All I can think when I see this thing is Robot: "What is my purpose?" Rick Sanchez: "You pass butter."

John Deere had a prototype for a walking forest machine. They got it when they bought Finnish company Plustech. Sadly nothing came of it, but it looked super cool.

Less MechWarrior & more Heavy Gear.

I remember watching an episode of Thunderbirds where they had a walking machine. Obviously influenced by this idea.

7:44 Someone clearly has never tried to make a good roast

It is quite impressive that such a system was functional in that time period.

Boston Dynamics has Spot. How hard could it be to make it a little bigger and attach handle bars and a seat?

I feel that a Spider Tank would be more practical for military use, than a Bipedal Tank. Just think a vehicle shaped like a Spider but with a Tank Turret on top.

Add 1 more leg, and: *THE ARTILLERYMAN AND THE FIGHTING MACHINE INTENSIFIES*

Hooray. The early years of what a Gundam was in real life.

I know it's just a sponsor segment, but bringing up Star Trek in a video like this actually brings up an interesting point in my opinion: Walking "mech suit" type machines are indeed quite a staple of sci-fi, and it's probably a safe bet that Star Trek is up there in the top 2 or 3 most popular sci-fi franchises of all time. Yet despite having lots of "robots" and "androids" around, I don't think we've ever seen any type of walking vehicles in it. I mean I guess it makes sense in a universe where anti-gravity has been invented, as you rarely (but not never) see wheeled vehicles either. Still I think it's surprising that such a classic sci-fi technology has, as far as I can recall, never been featured in one of the biggest sci-fi franchises.

Man, it looks like the Madcat/Timberwolf at home.

2:46 people were already worried about Cyberpsychosis even back then 😅😂🤣

Gone, reduced to atoms.

as an enthousiast of both cold war engeneering and fallout this video made my day!

2:25 "Each guess-ture... " Has this Aussie voice been AI all along?

Us military: "could you makea weapon to...." Ralf: "surpass metal gear?" Us military: *hands giant bag of money to ralph*

We were so close to have the future I wanted. I can't help but imagine what the world we be like now if people had continued to pursue mecha technology.

This kind of reminds me of the "Sidewinder" from the classicThunderbirds series.

So, MetalGears actually existed... almost

Welp, I think this makes it clear we should leave the giant robots to Japan heh.

As Star Wars: Return of The Jedi showed, "walkers" can be taken down by very low tech means. Naturally, in the real world, it would be much harder to make it work than it did for the Ewoks.

This looks more fit as an SCP

I like how a bunch of scientists got together and ruled there's a good likelihood of someone going robot crazy while using a mech.

Seems like you forgot the GE Beetle mech, which did leave the lab but never got used due to the project it to was intended to be used to maintenance being cancelled(Nuclear powered bombers). However the control system and arms were reused in some submersibles

The advantage of valkers was to be the ability to move high above the vegetation.... However, in practice the mechanical control of movement and especially its precision was something that never reached the stage of usability .Today, with the assistance of electronics, it should be possible, but everything is a question of the cheapest solution

A 4 legged or 6 legged robot would be more useful for army purposes however as leg length increases in general electric powered legged robots are not very energetically efficient since the battery pack would exceed the physical dimensions of the robot. A wheeled or tracked vehicle is more or less ideal thats what Army uses right now

Military applications are the last thing that I could imagine. They try to make tanks ride lower to the ground so that they are harder to target ... these things stick up line a sore thumb. And, of course, the worst thing is that the failure mode is so much worse than for a tracked or wheeled vehicle.

The Russian version was probably, most definitely "nuclear powered", bypassing the power consumption issue and could likely run on vodka in a pinch.

This was really fun, thank you for posting it. I had never heard of this vehicle before. One minor animation error @9:17 - the right leg is just floating in the air. (These animations are really cool! I'm not trying to nitpick, rather it made me laugh seeing the foot float, but also drove home how precarious this thing was!)

Pedipulator: I am your Father. AT-ST: Nooooo!

Gives me War of the Worlds vibe but 2 legs 😂

My god that walking animation made me laugh

An alternative history where walking machines replaced all wheeled vehicles as a major form of transportation and combat would be nice.

I think the fictional exoskeleton suit from Avatar', "AMP SUIT " is the closest thing to the one in this video maybe that is where the writers got inspiration from

Maybe one day, in space, the principality of ZEON will make one of this monstrosity and call it a Zaku. Sieg Zeon!!!

Please make video on 🔴 spiral orbiter mig 105 space fighter jet 🔴cryslar TV8 tank 🔴 German giraffe tank concept

You can hear him trying to hold back the laughter

1:19 - if it's piloted instead of worn, it's not a suit. It's a Mech.

Now we know where George Lucas got his ideas...

Huh

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I guarantee you, if they ever made one, the pilot would puke his guts out 😂

Nothing happened to them. We've never have had the power density to create them yet. We solved the balancing controls issue, but Squared-Cube Law still prevents us from scaling it up.

As soon as someone invents purely electro-mechanical (rather than *thermo*-mechanical) muscles, a lot of one unworkable designs will come back to life.

the prototypes for the, C&C Tiberian Sun GDI Mechanized Walkers, the Wolverine, Titan, Juggernaut, and the Mammoth Mk. II

Yes, when I think of walkers star trek comes to mind. Like the scenes that never had walking machines where spock and kirk were fighting the teddy bears and they were using light sabers too. 😮

The four legged walking machine is in an Army Museum in Ft Eustis Virginia. It still exists and is pretty cool to look at.

I recall reading about this in my "Weekly Reader" children's newspaper back in 4th grade. Even the word "Pedipulater" tickled me.

I have this video playing while playing Battletech. LOL.

There are numerous engineering reasons why walking machines never took off. Center of gravity, for starters. Then, there are power demands that electricity nor internal combustion can handle. Not to mention that complex assemblies need microprocessor controllers, which won't even be a thing until the eighties.

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These all look like something the Orks from WH40K would come up with.

13:10 sneaking a south korean mech clip from 2017 while talking about boston dynamics. Clever XDXD

That retro walking machine was pure Jonny Quest fantasy!

8:27 Wasn't expecting to see an Italian journal depicting a two legged robot originally tought for the Vietnam War

Damn it, we where so close to having gundams.

Either way, given what happened in Iraq from 2003 to 2011, any mechs deployed there will be easily taken out since its legs is very likely vulnerable to IEDs, and putting significant armor planets on the legs will make is heavy and immobile. At the least when tanks loses its tracks, it is still "upright position", whereas the mech without one or all of its legs will be hard to balance.

Where the fuck are my shadow boxing Real Steel fighting robots?

2:25 I've heard a lot of words pronounced weirdly but never heard "Gesture" pronounced with a hard G. 2:58 Here's an example of where a retake is perfectly fine. An Thro Pro Morph Us.

We’re 1/4th of the way to that Gideon mech

It’s crazy to think about the world we would have had if the walker and exoskeleton ideas grew into practical solutions.

I think caterpillar and others construction equipment, making companies have probably revise the idea and we may see them announcing this new light remember when one company announced the quantum computer other companies follow behind

There a real world machines in practical use which makes me think of mechanical scifi walkers or weird specialized robotd when in operation - walking excavators operating on steep slopes or other difficult terrain. They aren't set on wheels all around like a normal excavator but have a reduced number of wheels and some "limbs" instead, sometimes wheels on such individually controllable limbs as well while the excavators arm gets used as another very dextere limb as well not only to manipulate itssurroundings but also tu perform sort of a knuckle work to shift and move the excavator as if it would crawl over land.

This thing is so ridiculous, i need one

Wow I had NO IDEA this technology was being worked on so early! Reminds me of the scene in Fallout 4's intro where the scientist is putting the prototype Pipboy on his arm. 😂

Ngl, I'm so relieved there's finally a new ad lol

Aside, a tracked machine with two arms jointed the way human arms are would be useful. One arm gets a gripper, the other gets a shear, you use it to cut up ratty strands of rebar in demolished concrete.

That looks like it would fall over right when the first leg is lifted😂

LMAO this is super funny. Alone just thinking that the AC would work is nuts.

Very interesting vehicles to have. Also combining Star Trek and Star Wars sounds like a very interesting world to live in

that 4 legged machine is one of the coolest contraptions ever built. Amazed I've never heard of it before. The footage is astounding

I cant find the source thats mentioned at the end of the video, where would i be able to get/pay for the 3d assets used here? i dont see them on the Tom Samedov sketchfab page either

A big problem they had was stabilization. They did not have gyros that could adapt fast enough to keep balance when off angle walking. Modern day we have the computers that could sensor this stuff using AN ACCELEROMETER combined with gyro scopes we could keep this technology upright and moving.

There was another video of a failed tank design that walked on one leg and it looked very similar to this design. Fascinating!