Would mechs come in real life?

Agree to disagree. It might happen depending on the need for that kind of technology I could see the possibilty of Powered personal armor instead of giant robots. I think about 15=30 years before that technology.

Yeah if it is personal armor then it is possible, but not the transforming robots or gundam-esque mechs. Though it will probably take longer to make it happen, like 40-50 years, in my opinion.

Well, currently that's just not possible I am sure. But who knows in the distant future? Got to remember that even airplane are called a myth when the idea first appear.

In my humble opinion, Human's knowledge are still narrow and small compared to what this entire giant universe have to offer (Astronomy and philosophy freak) so we might just discover something that allows it to be possible somehow.

Well, when building Mechs finally become possible and financially feasible.

The nature of warfare would be changed, again.

The units Zellgadus mentioned is the most likely. Mobile suits are just too expensive and too complicated to build to become regular main stay units for grunt soldiers. I just remembered now, what about a Mechwarrior? Playing the game, they seem fairly simple to control than a mobile suit.

What about the mechs from the third Mattrix movie? Possible?

Not yet. Maybe after a century, that would be possible

If anything, if we do think that having mecha are militarily feasible, they will be far closer to the ones you see from the MechWarrior Universe. Most are slow, albeit heavily armored, and will most likely be powered by a small nuclear reactor. Those to me seem like the only ones that would be possible. We're not going to have the Gundam like mechas zipping around able to fly forever and dominate anything they come across.

But still, honestly, tanks I bet would still be favored, it probably would be to easy to make one of those clunkers trip, or to take out one of their legs, etc.

There are a few things that currently makes mecha impossible to build and pilot effectivly.

First of all, Balance. The same problem that normal, two-legged robots have, the technique for making it possible for a robot (and mechs) to balance, especially when walking (especially when having to move fast, like in war?) is not yet existant.

The second thing would be Weight. A mech that big (if were talking the size of a gundam here, flying or not) would be incredibly heavy, just for it to lift it's leg would be a hard strain on it's mechanics if it also is to be armoured. Besides it would even sink in the hard ground by a bit. The weight is one of the factors that makes it to unefficiant and impossible to build and use a mech of any larger build.

Third would be Power, what would it run on? Would need an enormous source of electricity, or perhaps it's own, movable nuclear powerplant to power it up for any long period of time. And I'm thinking that rocketfuel wouldn't be to efficiant either.

Any way, are to many impossabilities needed to be solved before a functional mech will happend, at least a big one. A smaller one could solve the weight and powerproblem, but it's still not possible to give it a sense of balance, it would just fall flat on it's face, pilot and all.

Well they have a robot now in Japan that can jump, the first of it's kind. it can get three inches off the floor and land withough falling over.

And in alot of industries there are robots already doing work faster and more prasice than humans can, like building computers and microchips.

So I would say 10 years or so before we see a merging of the technology that is already out there and 20 till there will be manpowered suits.

Although I think the piolets will be encased in the back of the robot for safety and balance reasons.

Wow this must've taken quite a while to make lol spider robots is the future of warfare lol

Thats amazing, I thought it would transform the first time it stopped.

Mechs may become feasible in the future, but strategically speaking, building a giant robot the size of say, a gundam, would only increase its frame, making it an easy target.
Sure, the legs could make them traverse through difficult terrain, but isn't that what threads are for?

edit: Srcatch that, bring on the mechs!

first off

the problem with bipeds

anyone knows that the human body without a sense of balance is extremely umbalanced

and have a smaller center of gravity

so the same thing will apply to mechs in the biped category

youd need an implementation of a gyroscope mixed with a mechanic overhaul and system that allows it to maintain balance while taking babysteps (yes babysteps cuz walking is the harder part and running is outta the question)

next is weight issues and stress

your building a giant mech for the purpose of 2 things: construction and warfare

all that weaponry and construction junk is gunna make the mech go nowhere

the frame alone realistically would creak and burden the legs which hafta distribute walking weight and balancing the whole upper body in motion

now add that with the mentioned above and itll collapse after the first (few) step

not to mention all the onboard generators, systems, coolants, radiators, etc...

and then even with reinforcement, that will impair the mobility of the mech even further

I'm working on a Gundam for Bushido at the current moment.

I'm thinking mechs from Mechwarrior would be the most probable likely outcome.

I'm thinking mostlikely the mechs from the Matrix would be the first ones to arrive in reality, but hey, you never know.

Yeah, they seem rather simple.

like many has said. The government would not have so much money into investing giant tanks to annihilate the enemy. They would rather send more troopers than to send a fucking Zaku on to the battle field, unless of course the Zabi family is rich in the future.