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The Unitree links claim a 9000mAh battery will last it 2 hours; I don't know the voltage, but even at 5.5 V cells, that's only about 25 W average power consumption. I find this difficult to believe, both because that's a very low power draw and because that would be penny-pinching on battery capacity. My expectation on timescale is that genuinely general-purpose robots will need at least as much compute as a self-dri…
You misunderstand battery specs. It's a 13 string (more commonly, 13s) battery- a string is a number of cells wired in series. By convention that's a 48 volt battery, which matches with the 54 volt charger. In total that's a 421 watt-hour battery, for an average power of ~210 watts over 2 hours. When you connect 2 9000 mAh cells in series, the resulting battery has 2x the voltage but the same mAh capacity. In paralle…
> When you connect 2 9000 mAh cells in series, the resulting battery has 2x the voltage but the same mAh capacity. In parallel, the battery has the same voltage but 2x the mAh.
The relevant units are:
* Capacity (Q, in mAh, Ah, kWh, etc)
* Power (P, in Watts)
* Voltage (U, in Volts)
* Current (I, in Amperes)
* Duration (t, in mostly measured in hours)
And the relevant formulas are:
* P = U x I or Power equals Voltage(difference) times Current
* Q = P x t or Capacity equals Power times duration
From this we can establish that connecting batteries in series or in parallel will not change their Capacity. When having 13 batteries of 29000mAh, or 29Ah, you have 13 x 29 = 377Ah or 377000mAh. Connecting batteries in series or parallel does make a difference in voltage and current: a string in series will increase the voltage while keeping the current the same (theoretically, in practice you get less than the current of the weakest cell); a parallel setup will increase the maximum current while keeping the voltage the same (again, in theory).