sennbat t1_j6nklsg wrote on January 31, 2023 at 4:32 PM

Reply to comment by Lady-Seashell-Bikini in Legged robots aren't yet ready for real-world environments, new research suggests. To help future robots thrive, scientists say the industry needs to implement a set of universal safety testing regulations. by Impossible_Cookie596

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.