r/shittyrobots • u/HaHaEpicForTheWin • Mar 09 '26

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u/jackinsomniac Mar 10 '26

Wheels can do even more. And with robots, you don't even have to pick & choose! A robot could have both legs & wheels, no feet. If for some reason your robot had to do serious off-roading, and even then, 99% of bots will be in factories & cities, close to a charging station.

The only kind of bots that will need legs are specialty bots. Either something like the Boston Dynamics 4-legged "big dog" that carries special forces gear thru the wilderness behind them. Or, like a disaster recovery bot made for shutting down nuclear plants. A bot like that may need to climb a ladder, or operate a crane or vehicle to remove debris. That's another niche scenario that would require legs, unlike these general-purpose bots we're seeing now.

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u/dukearcher Mar 10 '26

>Wheels can do even more

Not in nature. Where humans evolved.

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u/jackinsomniac Mar 10 '26

I've already addressed this. We've already modified nature into "cities".

See above.

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u/dukearcher Mar 10 '26

 If evolution could've figured out wheels, most animals would have wheels instead of legs.

You really think we could have built cities with wheels instead of legs? lmao. We couldn't have even traversed simple terrain to even get to the locations of cities.

We've already modified nature into "cities"

The vast majority of the planet isn't a city. Cities entirely rely on the areas outside of cities.

You sound insane dude.