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It would be nice to have a thing that can carry a bucket of paint up a flight of stairs
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There's a bunch of options for this task, but combining the three wheel stair-climbing dolly with the self-balancing hoverboard/segway seems like the easiest.

you don't need legs to climb stairs, you can have a rotating mechanism with different rows of wheels that have good enough grip, maybe an extruding stick to lift the whole robot up and the wheels move forward... would take a lot fewer joints than pair of legs probably.

If this was awesome, we would have it on wheelchairs. We very rarely do. Stairs are built for legs.



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