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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Maybe I am way off base, but I suspect it will be many more decades before one of those robots has a functional run time of more than an hour or two.
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Yeah, I agree. You hit on a lot of the right things. And...you're right - things like heat rejection are important. They appear to have solved that as the joints (motors), etc. are probably reaching steady state now (at whatever duty cycle they are specifying) but I think the question is how long they can sustain.
My knowledge of this stuff is close to non-existent, but it seems most (all?) batteries are essentially chemical reactions. Just the process of charging/discharging has heat and other considerations. Plus, there are limiting rates of charge/discharge. Nothing is simple and Mother Nature is cruel.
In the end, I think we are safe from these robots for a while. We'll just outrun them.
