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		TeMPOraL on June 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SoftBank Agrees to Buy Boston Dynamics From Alphab... Maybe there's still merit to BD's approach. The rule is: first make it work, then make it good, then make it fast (i.e. optimize). It's probably easier to find plenty of ways to incrementally improve on a working platform than to dream up those improvements completely from scratch.

sharemywin on June 9, 2017 [–]

To me though a better approach would be:

1. wheeled sidewalk robots. 2. wheeled robot with arms 3. walking robot.

Still incremental just have sellable robots the whole time.

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