Why Most Robotics Platforms Are Useless: Three Restrictive Assumptions Developers Hate
broodsugar · x · 2026-09-04
A developer argues most robotics platforms are useless because they assume: (1) a jointed body definable by URDF, (2) a single network address per robot, and (3) acceptance of the latency from the platform sitting in the middle of the telemetry pipe.
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