How far away are we from having fully mobile bipedal mechas?

It's still in it's infancy. I would say that we need a better power source and lighter alloys.

>>8784312
Petman and ATLAS are pretty good.
And they're about 10 years old now.
>>8784330
I think biggest thing is using limbs in reasonable fashion while still standing upright.
But you might be right. I think Petman had a powered tether for a lot of shit.

>>8784402
A mecha isn't just a robot, it's a fuck huge robot with a cockpit.

>>8784312
Why would you want those 2 massive points of failure when literally any tank has that thing out matched in speed and firepower

>>8784312
As an electromechanical engineer and roboticist, we are very far because getting them to balance is awfully difficult. Certainly if they're going to way hundreds of tons, like your picture.

>>8785050
*weigh

>>8784312
when battery technology catches up

>>8784312
Mechanical mechas are too heavy to be bipedal but plastic mechas are more probable.

>>8784312
When you stand on one leg, you don't have to move sideways that much, because your foot is very close to your center of gravity by default, but those IRL mechas have their legs wider apart, which means they have to shuffle a lot to stay balanced while walking.

>>8784312

They are a stupid concept. Nobody is seriously working on giant mechas.

>>8785130
boston dynamics is

>>8785145

No they are not. They are working on small robots.

>>8784312
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>>8785167
like this one ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP_NCB3KkiY

>>8784312
We have the tech now but its to costly to use when wheels and planned routes cost less and are more reliable.