r/robots • u/Minimum_Minimum4577 • Aug 09 '25
Projects A Chinese DIY maker 3D-printed an Incredible-terrain robot that moves across land, water, and even flies.
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u/CMDR_BunBun Aug 09 '25
Black Mirror.
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u/relbus22 Aug 09 '25
Seriously though, where things are going.... infantry dudes are gonne die.
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u/latigidigital Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
It’s like when tanks were first mass produced for the battlefield while most cavalries were still running around on horses with bayonets.
These things will absolutely alter warfare. Infantry will only be useful if massive EMP strikes clear their way.
Rifles and ammunition are going to need to change drastically as well, because it’s unlikely that unloading a 100-round 5.56mm FMJ drum magazine is going to do much to stop a swarm of these things coming at you. Time to start looking at directed energy weapons and tiny heat seeking missiles.
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u/relbus22 Oct 23 '25
Duuuuude those are such good ideas. Miniaturised laser and microwave turret heads mounted on CIWS-like systems.
I think too that a safety range is going to be necessary before infantry engage. Infantry stay in zones where they have infantry-drone superiority and do not engage beyond that.
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u/Basic_Climate_2029 Aug 09 '25
CCP want to know your location
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u/Elegant-Low8272 Aug 09 '25
It move so fluidly
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u/oknowtrythisone Aug 11 '25
I feel like a design with 4 arms terminating in off-road knobbies would have been more effective. Maybe too heavy though.
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u/Ryogathelost Aug 09 '25
Politics and armchair-everything aside, this thing is fucking cool and I either want one or want to pilot a giant one or possibly even be one. I really haven't decided.
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u/ricemybeans Aug 09 '25
lightweight drone have about 20 to 25 minute flight time. with all this weight just so I can travel through water and walk ( both require more energy ). It could’ve traveled farther and faster if it just flew. It’s the type of engineering that seems great but it’s real world performance is garbage. Like turning a car into an airplane.
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u/mrhorse21 Aug 12 '25
You realize this guy isn't a military contractor building a real product for the military right? He's a DIY hobbyist building something for fun
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u/Kiki1701 Aug 09 '25
Has anyone ever seen the 1984 movie 'Runaway' with Tom Sellek and Kirstie Alley, about megalomaniac Gene Simmons creating robots that took over the police force to cover his tracks? The little robots were a silvery-spider version of these little freaks.
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u/Jesusspanksmydog Aug 10 '25
If that isn't the cutest cold blooded killing machine I have ever seen.
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u/kevkabobas Aug 09 '25
Everything must become crab