Post #4503132
2026-08-10 02:13 UTC
@neckspike@indiepocalypse.social
All the slick demos never talked about that. This guy I knew in college destroyed so many little motors trying to get it to work... then they moved to just simulating the motors, which was a bit better, but the "unexpected walking solutions" were mostly worse than what he could plan out by programing the machine based on the logic he had in mind when he made the design.
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@neckspike@indiepocalypse.social 2026-08-10 02:20
@futurebird@sauropods.win Honestly brute forcing simulations to find novel solutions can potentially turn up interesting results but for motions that are found in nature we've got so much prior art to look at. How does your thing need to move? Look at the creatures on this earth that move like that. They move that way because "how the fuck do I get around when shaped like this" has been tested over and over via evolution.