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Old 03-25-2008, 12:37 PM   #11
Thoran
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Default Re: Robots of the future..In the present!

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Originally Posted by Bungleau View Post
I *suspect* the important limiting factor is power... at 340 pounds of carrying capacity, it can hold a lot of batteries, but what to do when they run out?
That's why the autonomous one had that loud motor... power generation. In the future I'd expect to see these sorts of applications running fuel cells - which would make them silent.
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