Robots Might Jump Around to Explore the Moon - by SethLockman
How great are wheels, really? Wheels need axles. Suspension. Power of some kind. And roads, or at least swaths of relatively flat and stable terrain. Then you need to maintain all of it. Because of their cost many civilizations across human history, who knew all about wheels and axles, didn’t bother using them for transportation. Another way to look at it – much of human technology mimics nature. Of the simple machines, levers, inclined planes, wedges, and even screws are observed in nature.
The main competition to wheels are legs, which to be fair are also a total nightmare. Whether using the wetware of a horse’s brain or the software of an, legs mean greater demand for computing power to maintain balance under different conditions and loads. Plus the “suspension” gets super complex, often requiring a spine or similar structure that is prone to single-point failure.
So how about jumping? It can take fewer moving parts than rolling or walking, saving weight and removing points of failure. While balancing becomes more critical, it also becomes simpler. Low obstacles become nearly as insignificant as level terrain. And most surfaces you can walk on or roll over, you can also bounce on.
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