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I am also curious about educated answers to this question, but I imagine taking a cue from millions of years of evolutionary pressure is a pretty solid bet.
by anamexis 3y ago
I am also curious about educated answers to this question, but I imagine taking a cue from millions of years of evolutionary pressure is a pretty solid bet.
- fbdab103 3y agoEvolutionary technical debt is a thing. Many local optimum were locked into the gene pool due to random chance.
- makeitdouble 3y ago8 legs are also well representated and going strong for millions of years, not to mention carcinisation being a meme at this point. When it comes to robotics, my best guess would be cost and complexity. We also either need a better control interface or better self driving software to take advantage of the legs moving independently (I assume optimizing how the 8 legs should move to climb a rocky path for instance is just a computational nightmare to do realtime)