Eight months ago he built a quadrupedal robot that could step sideways using three of them per leg. I’m not going to link that, you’ll have to find it from his YouTube page because you should look around.
I wonder if robots could be made to work better at cryogenic temperature, so superconductors could be used. The figure of merit would be much higher if resistance was zero. Or maybe this is another reason to want room temperature superconductors.
Even copper has vastly lower resistance when cryogenically cooled. It's not a bad idea for some applications, and water cooling is already a good way to increase power density.
Aaed Musa blew my mind about 18 months ago with his capstan drive video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MwIBTbumd1Q
Eight months ago he built a quadrupedal robot that could step sideways using three of them per leg. I’m not going to link that, you’ll have to find it from his YouTube page because you should look around.
I wonder if robots could be made to work better at cryogenic temperature, so superconductors could be used. The figure of merit would be much higher if resistance was zero. Or maybe this is another reason to want room temperature superconductors.
Even copper has vastly lower resistance when cryogenically cooled. It's not a bad idea for some applications, and water cooling is already a good way to increase power density.