[jiminymcmoogley]

see what i find puzzling is that warehouses have flat floors right? so what benefit does the upfront cost of building something with a bunch of extra actuators for all the joints in 2 legs, and the ongoing running costs of far less mechanically efficient bipedal locomotion have over wheeled movement like their other robot, the Handle, offers? i should mention i know nothing about robots so i'm sure there must be a good reason for it, but this thought has been on my mind ever since I saw george hotz bring it up in the Comma Body reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhvt0ZmqmGQ as a layperson, i feel like biomimicry only makes sense for hands and arms, at least for the vast majority of commercial use cases

[generuso]

You are absolutely right. And this is reflected in the choice of robots deployed in warehouses.

For example, Amazon uses hundreds of thousands of simple wheeled floor-jack like robots to move the shelves around [1], and they started doing this many years ago.

Meanwhile, they have only a handful of humanoid robots, on experimental basis, trying to decide if they are useful [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULswQgd73Tc [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IdbodRG14

[hanniabu]

> warehouses have flat floors right

"Flat"... with a bunch of cracks, joints, pallet chips, and other debris

[philwelch]

Stairs.