Posted: Nov 30, 2015 2:01 pm
crank wrote:Macdoc wrote:They have robots that can walk now, this is harder?
Much ......it's vectoring thrust in a controllable manner that is very hard .....watch how well that thrust angles out to correct just near the ground.
Lot of energy engaged that needs to be controlled ...gravity's a bitch.
Do you think they have any gyros to assist that, and of course I don't mean the measuring kind, but actual massive ones to get torque from? What makes the control so difficult? Is is angular momentum, thrust instabilities/non-uniformity. ..? I'm just curious, not trying to argue, I'm basically clueless about it all.
It's basically like balancing a broomstick on your palm, small balancing errors require fast and big corrections.