>In anticipation of the Mobile Suit Gundam series' 40th anniversary in 2019, the Gundam Global Challenge aims to develop a full-sized Gundam that can actually walk.
>It is also alleged to enjoy support from the government of Shinzō Abe, which is determined to build the Gundam to win back popular approval.
>He was dismayed at the price tag (80 billion yen, or $650 million), saying, "If it takes 80 billion, make the real thing."
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-12-12/walking-gundam-plan-comes-in-for-criticism-on-japanese-talk-show/.96403
>>134734282
>"If it takes 80 billion, make the real thing."
What a moron.
>>134734778
>implying a beam saber couldn't take care of this thing
I just hope they have insurance on this thing, it has a bad track record of falling into angsty teen hands.
...IF they can make one that can actually walk, they may as well make the rest autonomous too. Defying gravity is the only real challenge anyway.North Korean lies getting closer to reality.
Is it timeforrobots?
Zeon rebellion soon.
Have you respected the robot today, /a/?
>>134734778
To be fair to him, this barely walking Gundam would cost almost as much as one of Japan's helicopter carriers so he's not totally full of shit here.
>>134738566
The military defense budget for 2016 is ¥5.1 trillion. What's a few extra billion?
>>134734282
>tfw we will never have giant robots
kill me
>>134739080
one day someone will build one, but just for shits and giggles.
>>134738783
If it's anything like the american budget, 50% is going to retirement or medical for people no longer serving.
But we don't even have a functional space colony yet. What's the bloody point.
>>134738566
>>134738783
I thought the ridiculous part of his statement was that a fully functioning Gundam would cost more money than exists on the planet, probably. Not that 80 billion yen was a lot of money for what they were getting.
>>134739080
Explain that shit nerd
>>134740123
It's literally a plot of y=x, y=x^2, and y=x^3, which are how length, area, and volume are related to length, respectively. This alone doesn't actually make his point, you need to also know something about how force and stress scale with length, and it turns out when you try to make something huge, whatever material you were using when it was small will probably not work.
>>134740123
Volume increases exponentially with relation to area, the bigger you make shit it gets exponentially heavier not linearly. So materials need to be top grade for something gigantic that is in motion.
>>134740123
Basically, as you increase the size of an object, it's volume increases faster than it's surface area. Meaning a giant robot wouldn't be able to walk without crushing itself with it's own weight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law
They just need to discover gundanium first.
WHAT DO THE SPECIALS THINK?
>>134740226
>>134740260
>>134740270
Moron, they just need to use a harder material, you don't know a shit
>>134740747
>>134740747
>use harder material
>robot is super fucking heavy
>takes a step
>shatters into thousands of pieces because its so brittle and heavy
>robot project cancelled
>>134734282
>not spending the 80 billion to start digging holes in the Antarctic
>>134740747
CHOGOKIN ZEEETTTOOOO!!!!
>>134740908
>>134740927
>>134741080
Then tell me why structures like the statue of liberty can keep in one piece even with their weight
>>134741286
Fug....
>>134740927
>the stronger a material is the harder it gets
So I guess lead is better then steel?
>>134740927
Checkmate
>>134741286
>>134741286
Of course we both know it's hollow to reduce weight. But unlike a mecha, the statue does not move. The inside is a mess of triangular bracing with zero flexible joints.
>>134741622
>implying they can't make the mecha using the same pattern
Get some brains kid
>>134741286
Liberty is hollow and made of a thin sheet of copper iirc.
>>134741760
Do share your wisdom then, Master Engineer. Your talents are wasted here when you could be off solving major problems worldwide! I mean wow, you've thought of things all the major experienced professionals have never considered!
>>134741760
Sure the individual parts like arms and legs can be made with the same technique, but then you also have to design a stronger joint that can handle the stresses of walking and punching. Making a joint made of a "harder" material will only cause it to crack. The solution which we don't have yet is a material that is light enough to not add weight and be flexible enough to absorb impact forces.
>>134741849
You know I'm pretty sure the dude is talking about building a replica that can move like the OP suggests not an actual Gundam
>>134741897
So if we had such a material making functioning giant robots wouldn't just be a dream?
post yfw it trips and falls over at first step
>>134741761
They only need to make and estructure in the legs to make him walk, no need for heavy material or a militar armor, only an huge toy of hollow plastic with some mechanic shit in the legs. Damm, some people on 4 chan are so stupid
>people are questioning my government and choices
>I'll appease them with a moving Gundam
![[EG]Zeta_Gundam_09_BD[6EA3FA4F].mkv_snapshot_09.37_[2015.08.30_00.44.13].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gW0AwrE.jpg "[EG]Zeta_Gundam_09_BD[6EA3FA4F].mkv_snapshot_09.37_[2015.08.30_00.44.13].jpg")
>>134734282
Some kid needs to jump in and run off with it in true Gundam fashion.
>>134741927
gigantic fighting robots require both a very lightweight and durable material that won't shatter as well as an energy source that doesn't take up exponentially more room for more energy, so there needs to be an advancement of carbon nanotube or similar technology as well as a revolutionary energy source like a cold fusion generator.
>>134741849
Lelel I know right! XDD
>>134741897
Who the fuck says something about punching moron?
>>134741903
This guy get it
If it only takes 650 million why the fuck hasn't some rich nerd billionaire done this already?
>>134742081
>he doesn't know about the secret billionaire Gundam duel tournaments
>>134741983
That's good public policy for once.
>>134741927
A sufficiently powerful yet portable power source would be a big issue as well unless you wanted you giant robot constantly tethered by a power cable. A big robot would use up a lot of energy just moving around.
>>134742111
Quiet you! We don't want them finding out what the arcade simulators are actually for.
>>134742081
Because they didn't get to be rich billionairs by spending over half of a billion on things that don't generate profit.
>>134742111
>that feel when we'll get the cheap pleb peasant version next year between Megarobo and the Japanese one
are you ready for the real life filler arc
>>134742234
I think by 2020 that fusion plant in France is supposed to be done. By 2030 then we should have 1 molecule thick carbon chain manufacturing down and fusion energy figured out. Honestly the first viable robot might be even bigger than a gundam because I doubt that the Fusion reactor can be made to be small enough to fit in a gundam but the carbon chains should be strong enough to build a robot Big O size.
Who cares? Let me know when they actually do it, not when they ask people to try.
>>134740046
More like 50% of it is being siphoned off into contractor and congressmen pockets.
>>134740927
Just use gundamium alloy retard
I never understood how in G Gundam the Gundam could get tossed around, rolled or whatever and Domon Kasshu could still stay standing standing inside the chamber
>>134742869
The same way a fucking horse could drive a horse shaped gundam.
>>134742370
Germany is already firing up the stellarator. Gundam reactors are forthcoming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyqt6u5_sHA
>>134743015
I doubt it as most gundam reactors make use of a fictional particle to perform fusion.
>>134743015
I'm so happy this stuff will work within my lifetime. We might actually see Gundams my friend.
>>134742909
If it's running, galloping or whatever, how could it run in place but still make the Gundam run and not run in place?
This racist show confuses me so much.
>>134741622
>the statue does not move
this is not entirely true.
>>134740747
Go back to school.
>>134743015
>Germany
it will be torn down for being against Allah's will long before anything of substance is completed.
>>134740260
>exponentially
no. it's polynomial growth.
>>134743440
I know what you mean, but we're talking about articulated movement.
>>134743563
>he doesnt know that America has already master the art of making giant robots and when the time comes Lady Liberty will defeat japan's gundam invasion
How does the manga fare against the show?
>>134743841
You can buy the hardcover yourself to see.
>>134740270
>>134740260
>>134740226
>>134739080
Guys, no, it's so obvious. "Weight" is a concept that only exists because of gravity. If we make the robot huge enough that its gravity is greater than earth's then it doesn't matter how heavy it is!
>>134743745
>its on the wrong coast
ONE JOB AMERICA
ONE JOB
>>134743894
But anon, it's really expensive! Is it worth it? Because if I buy one, I'll have to buy all 12.
>>134743944
It's pretty good. Fixes some plot holes and makes the series a little less dumb.
>>134743914
Absolute madman.
>>134743981
I don't know why, but I trust you.
>>134743841
As is usual the source is better. Plus the OVA will only cover the flashback arc, which only makes up about 2-3 volumes.
Why don't they make the robot out of solid diamond so it won't break?
>>134741996
It will happen. This is part of Japans plan to find The Chosen One and conquer the world.
>>134744018
Diamonds aren't that tough. They only rate a "good" on the mineral toughness scale. Jadeite Jade and Nephrite Jade both rate an "exceptional" for toughness.
>>134743925
blame the French
>>134744141
Use neutronium then.
>>134742014
A walking robot could be made today with modern air frame construction techniques. It would just be expensive. Aluminum framing with carbon fiber plate, or sandwiched foam composites would all work.
The power source is the real problem, we're not even in the ballpark for power yet. Engines are powerful and light enough, but to meter that power out into various robot motions would be a mechanical nightmare. Batteries aren't powerful, light, or long lasting enough to work yet. Some day...bs mechanical engineering
>>134743015
This is a Tokamac, its been around since the 50's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvISgdwMGRs
fusion is 20 years away, and always will be
>>134744256
Yes, that is an extremely good idea.
Don't worry, i'll show working gundams in 3 months
also a nanomachine based virus that can target anyone
>>134744840
Who? WHOOOOO?
>>134743477
This, not even joking. "Multi-coolty" is a more valued goal than scientific advance nowadays over here.
>>134744706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqmoFzbZYEM
Tokamac can only run for a few minutes. Current estimates on Stellarator are at least half an hour. There's still a long, long way to go, but they're making progress.
>>134744706
MIT promised their reactor will be done in 10 years though.
>>134741903
He's still stupid because the original discussion is about building actual Gundam.
>>134743456
they already have developed compounds that are extremely light and tough.
I imagine that a small mobile suit probably is much easier, and don't tell me we don't have the robotics possible yet when commerical robots are already stronger. Theres even a exoskelton prototype that you can see on youtube, and that boston dynamics dogbot that can run and if you push it it can steady itself.
The push right now is for attack drones because they are much cheaper and far more dangerous. Compared with the average fighter jet they aren't much but against bongistans its effective.
Maybe this is just a bait for the public to accept the building of a bipedal tank that can launch untraceable nukes using an electromagnetic enhance launching device attached to it?
>>134744840
However by that point a pair of idiots will have blown them to smithereens with some C4 and a rifle.
>>134745439
>metalgear.png
>>134745807
Heavy Object incomingand subsequently BTFO by said idiots
I hope someone takes a video of it falling over
>>134745439
Gundam vs Metal Gear Rex when?
But seriously, God bless Japan. In a time when the west has to deal with refugees and economic trouble, they make their dreams come true.
>>134743841
CGI a shit
Anime is the main fault why the birth rate is declining every year and Japan government is wasting money with a giant toy.
Two bombs weren't enough, what a bunch of manchilds.
Neither anime nor manga related.
Sage and report.
>>134743477
This meme needs to die already
Really Japan?
Can't they make each limb separate but bolt them together?
>>134743841
Why does Charchar have a vagina in the cover?
>>134752708
>meme
oh you poor child
>>134752708
Wake up and smell the falafel, Hans. Your country is dying.
>>134751379
>not knowing that announcing your report is a bannable offense
Irony
>>134734282
I'm more intrigued by the US vs Japan robot battle that is planned to happen next year.
>>134752711
You mock them now, but just you wait until they save us from Ali.
>>134752711
What are you questioning? That they are planning on making a walking Gundam? or that there are people vocally proclaiming that it's a waste of money?
>>134754212
Why would we need saving from this guy?
>>134754914
But his name is Cassius.
>>134754942
Not since decades ago.
>>134755124
It's both cooler and more easily identifiable. Muhammad Ali sounds like the kind of name hundreds of millions of people have.
Many of them will be frightened away by the awakening of Japan's first Gundam.
>>134755167
What the fuck just happened? Meant for>>134755126
We should focus more on Space Colonies.
Once we have settlements in space, we could just build functional MS in space ignoring square cube law to some extent until we can either discover or engineer an alloy that can defy it. When that is achieved their operation can be extended to use on planets, till then they can still operate in microgravity environments maybe for asteroid mining etc.
>>134755405
This guy speaks sense.
>gundam statue
Yeah, sure.
>walking gundam
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>134734282
whoa
>>134742234
>unless you wanted you giant robot constantly tethered by a power cable
Like an Evangelion? Sounds fine to me.
>>134745439
Metal Gearrrr
>>134734282
What's the best mecha since 2005?
Valvrave or gargantia?
>>134760657
Daimidaler
>>134760657
>>134760996
MIDARA! MIDARA! MIDARA! MIDARA! MIDARA! MIDARA! MIDARA! MIDARA! MIDARA! MIDARA! MIDARA! MIDARA!
DAIMIDARA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bEafJsyN-8
Walking Zaku where
>>134734282
BUILD GUNDAM
>>134761587
>>134761835
>yfw Trump makes the Federation great again
>>134761587
One day anon.
I saw the Gundam myself recently, it was impressive.
>>134762320
I respect this robot.
>>134762320
Why does Turkey have a robot?
>>134760657
Concrete Revolutio
>>134762710
The only thing a turkish official did right and they took it down.
>>134762581
not as impressive as THIS *whips out dick*
>>134763052
What a shame
>>134743925
That's what they want you to think.
