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		Mistletoe on Oct 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Extreme parkour with legged robots Nature can’t really make a nice wheel and free wheeling hub though. Blood vessels would get ripped off, cartilage etc.

lusus_naturae on Oct 10, 2023 [–]

Nature does it own version of a "wheel", mainly in flagella: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_locomotion_in_livin...

Mistletoe on Oct 10, 2023 | [–]

That’s very true but it doesn’t seem to scale up well from that. :)

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