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There's something I don't understand, perhaps someone knows and can explain. Why have the chosen to build it with only two wheels? It's clearly unstable and ha
by SimonPStevens 8y ago
There's something I don't understand, perhaps someone knows and can explain.
Why have the chosen to build it with only two wheels? It's clearly unstable and has to constantly adjust it's position and counterweight to stay balanced. Sure, it's super clever and I think it looks amazing. But surely it would have been far cheaper and easier to build it with three of four wheels so it naturally stable. It would have looked less cool, but I feel like that can't be the only reason.
- return0 8y agoi dont think these robots are actually going to be used in this industry. seems like a demo.
- trendoid 8y agoI think the idea might be to have them for different kinds of works. We might be seeing 0.1% of the work these robots (this particular design) will actually do.
- SimonPStevens 8y agoI still can't really think of any kind of work where 2 wheels and that body shape would be any better than just having 3 wheels and more stability. It would be just as flexible. Using wheels means it's not like it's going to be doing anything particularly off road anyway, that's for the walking robots. Literally the only thing I can think of is that this is a pure tech demo to show off how clever they are that will never make it into production at all. Which is fair enough I guess, it certainly achieves it's aim if that is the case.