• Aux@feddit.uk
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    Yeah, people often forget that human like robots are shit in general. A flying drone is a lot more efficient at delivering a grenade than a running mech.

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      I get a little uncanny valley twinge comparing the T2 intro to the demo videos of the current state of ambulatory humanoid machines.

      It’s only a little twinge, thankfully. Bipedal humanoid mech is kinda silly, IMHO.

      Carcinisation is the way for terrestrial war-bots.

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      Turns out biological restrictions on things like wheels limit evolution

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        Robots have a very limited scope of their functionality compared to animals. Legs are good when you have to perform loads of different tasks to survive: chase, hide, climb, tear flesh apart, etc. A robot which only needs to deliver a grenade to an enemy doesn’t need to do anything like that.

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            Cause we don’t have the technology to make good legs? Nature evolved legs cause they’re simply better than anything else, that’s literally what evolution is.

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              Legs do not roll.

              Wheels are specialized tools and as we have legs as a default, we’re likely to be most advantaged by our tools being what we aren’t.

              Even perfectly efficient legs can’t move from momentum. They’re doing to be inferior for the vast majority of transport.

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                Yeah but it’s much balanced for approachy any terrain. It’s a more universal choice. You can also do loads of other things with legs like kick people.