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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by Gasp0de on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:51AM (#50363289)
My entire house is designed for humanoids. Stairs, door handles, step ladders to get onto the attic. I wonder how R2D2 would walk up stairs. Gas thrusters?
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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by swiftcoder on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:19AM (#50364034)
R2D2 canonically can climb stairs in his 3-leg travel mode (due to technical limitations in the original series props, it's not entirely clear when he transitions between 2-leg resting mode and 3-leg travel mode)
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