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Regarding the relationship between size and strength in humans vs robots, is it accurate to say that:
- for humans, mass grows cubically relative to length, whereas strength grows approximately quadratically to length (because strength is a function of muscle cross sectional area). So someone who is 6ft tall is approx 2x as tall/wide and 4x as strong as someone who is 3ft tall, but 8x as heavy (hypothetically), so a human's strength to weight ratio goes down as they get taller (specifically, heavier)
- but with electric motors (i.e. the joints of robots), torque grows proportionally to mass (based on what i'm seeing here https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/18480[1][2] and here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234118088%5C_Scaling%5C_Laws%5C_in%5C_Robotics[3])
1: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/18480
2: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/18480
3: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234118088%5C_Scaling%5C_Laws%5C_in%5C_Robotics
TLDR: is it accurate to say that in humans, strength grows sub-linearly with mass (1/x). whereas for electric motors, torque grows linearly with mass.
TLDR: robots can scale.
Wait a minute, can someone further this to the effects of the end-manipulator? (i.e. the damage done by the fist at the end of a punch? maybe in terms of energy behind the fist?).
And what about ability lift/carry heavy loads at the end-manipulator (hand).
I wonder how those things change with relation to size.
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