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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
This is pretty cool,


It is, but I have to wonder why robots always have to be made to look like humanoids at all... We're not all that efficient, and modeling machines after ourselves, I'd have to think the number of parts and complexity would make it prone to breaking down all the time.

But, I'm no robotics engineer.
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