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Wow, really impressive. The ice was amazing (though as someone with bad knees, transferred anthropomorphization makes me cringe). Does anyone know why 4 legs w
by s3graham 19y ago
Wow, really impressive. The ice was amazing (though as someone with bad knees, transferred anthropomorphization makes me cringe).
Does anyone know why 4 legs was chosen? 4 seems better than 2 for stabilization, but why not 5, or 6, or 8? Maybe looking like a familiar friendly animal is an end goal?
- kingnothing 19y agoProbably better for it to look like a friendly animal than a giant spider, although that could be nice from an intimidating militaristic point of view...
- astine 19y agoI'm willing to bet that it was literally and deliberately modeled after a large dog. Engineers borrow design from nature all the time because its much simpler than starting from scratch. Why reinvent walking when dogs already do it so well?
- huherto 19y agoProbably the 8 leg design was already tried by nature and it was not successful for large animals.
- pchristensen 19y agoWhether in nature or manufacture, those legs aren't free. Is four more legs worth the energy required to grow/build them, and could the mental processing power necessary to run them be used better somewhere else?