• KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Turns out biological restrictions on things like wheels limit evolution

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      4 days ago

      Robots have a very limited scope of their functionality compared to animals. Legs are good when you have to perform loads of different tasks to survive: chase, hide, climb, tear flesh apart, etc. A robot which only needs to deliver a grenade to an enemy doesn’t need to do anything like that.

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          3 days ago

          Cause we don’t have the technology to make good legs? Nature evolved legs cause they’re simply better than anything else, that’s literally what evolution is.

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            3 days ago

            Legs do not roll.

            Wheels are specialized tools and as we have legs as a default, we’re likely to be most advantaged by our tools being what we aren’t.

            Even perfectly efficient legs can’t move from momentum. They’re doing to be inferior for the vast majority of transport.

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              3 days ago

              Yeah but it’s much balanced for approachy any terrain. It’s a more universal choice. You can also do loads of other things with legs like kick people.