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ShittyBeatlesFCPres t1_j6n8j8m wrote

It seems silly to only have two legs when you can add a third for stability and balance. Humanoid robots will never be as safe as Kangarooid roobots, assuming the roobots don’t have boxing gloves on, anyway. Humans are terribly designed.

Another option might be tank treads. That worked well in Basewars for NES.

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Lady-Seashell-Bikini t1_j6nbsha wrote

I was just thinking that wheels would be better anyway. Not only would they be more stable, but they would force more city planners to consider wheelchair movement.

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sennbat t1_j6nklsg wrote

Wheels are incredibly limiting for many of the dangerous-to-humans purposes robots would be very useful for. Wheels only really work at all in an environment explicitly built to support wheels, and they can't handle any kind of rapid elevation change with fixed infrastructure.

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