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worikyesterday at 10:19 PM1 replyview on HN

Very interesting

I have seen a few of these, but only one (about a decade ago) that used legs not wheels

Wouldn't it be better if the robot walked rather than rolled?

You may be able to illuminate this for me...


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chrisbtoday at 8:49 AM

Before we started building we considered many different designs, including legs. However, it introduces significant extra mechanical and control complexity, with more complex failure modes - e.g. one leg gets stuck in the mud; it also would be more expensive to build.

So we decided to stick with wheels, at least for this product iteration!