“We chose wheels because legs would consume more energy and there’s no guarantee the robot stays upright balanced”

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Dyna-2: General Purpose Physical Agents with Hour-Long Autonomy - Jason Ma, Dyna Robotics

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use wheels for the robot base instead of legs

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