The Armored Core arena but for funsies and not as a side effect of corporate war culture
janus2@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Boston Dynamics got started making weird leggy robots specifically for terrain that’s too rough for wheels and tank tracks, so if there was somehow a need for a bipedal robot it might end up looking somewhat like a mech.
My guess is that legged ground based war machines are usually going to have 4+ legs for stability, though. Airborne drones are probably going to be way more common.
Personally, I hope we achieve a utopian future where war is obsolete, scarcity is history, and we build giant mecha robots and battle with them as a power sport
ashenone@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Klear@piefed.world 5 days ago
Just the other day I found out that One Must Fall 2097 has been released as freeware and there’s a solid community-built source port you can just download and play.