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Re:Atlas, the Next Generation [video] by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:57AM (#11166712)
Not everything. The energy required by physics for lifting boxes or driving a car up a hill is pretty much fixed. Better batteries would help with both of those.
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Re:Atlas, the Next Generation [video] by jessriedel on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:04AM (#11167719)
I don't think the robots who can do those things are near the physical limits, though.
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Re:Atlas, the Next Generation [video] by noir_lord on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:36AM (#11166977)
Electric jets as well.

The energy to raise a fixed mass a certain height isn't going to change.

Not to mention an electric car with a thousand mile range would be huge.

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Re:Atlas, the Next Generation [video] by rorykoehler on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:50PM (#11176179)
It would certainly put a whole new perspective on range anxiety.
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