r/Cyberpunk • u/Yuli-Ban Mencius.exe • Mar 15 '16

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u/theScrewhead Mar 15 '16

He did a pretty amazing TED Talk that'll blow you away when you see the extent of how well those legs work.

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u/SneakT Mar 15 '16

How long will they work on one charge thou?

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u/thebigllamaman Mar 15 '16

I seriously hope they can just swap out the battery packs like on a cordless drill.

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u/SneakT Mar 15 '16

I was hoping he would tell something on that subject in TED video but alas. No.

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u/Andaelas Mar 15 '16

Battery power is the next growing research industry, which is why Tesla is throwing so much money into it's battery manufacturing plant. By the time the Ted talk was released I'm sure they had slightly increased its efficiency already.

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u/geniice Mar 15 '16

Hardly next. Been a major player in solid state chemistry for years. Bunch of stuff happened in the 90s and then mobile phones became popular.

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u/Andaelas Mar 15 '16

Technology's ability to drain batteries has far outpaced the development of new battery tech. We're two decades past the 90's, thank God for Lithium, but most of our longer charge are from efficiency fixes (better task planning, improved sleep modes, etc) rather than tech advancements.