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by lucianbr 656 days ago
It says these are made of plastic pipe. Doesn't the pipe wear down where it contacts (or even slides in the video) the ground, creating microplastics?

Also, it already slides some of the time in the videos. Not sure what the advantage is over a simple slide dragged by a sail.

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Strandbeest is just one legged vehicle. But I was just going on a tangent about an important aspect of legged vehicles in general.