Once I even called him... a lot worse

[zustifer]

This is entertaining; it's a site that lets you make little charts of concepts. Here is what I made in ten minutes or so.



With a lot of ideas it becomes difficult to arrange them well fairly quickly, and I don't think it's meant for too many sublevels of relations, but it's still not unamusing.

[Edit] Oh hell yes, I can just link to it. Click and drag like google maps to navigate.

Comments

[graydon.livejournal.com]

Oh ED209, you poor, dumb bot. Taken out by the stairs.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Aww, it's not his fault he was designed for flat outdoor-urban terrain!
Snot like Robo was all that dextrous, either. I'm sort of surprised he could handle stairs well, himself.

[graydon.livejournal.com]

It seems simply a matter of not automatically flattening your foot to the plane of the staircase, and having reasonably rigid feet. After all, I can walk up stairs on my toes. I imagine ED209 could walk down stairs balanced on the tips of his hind heels, assuming they didn't snap off.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to bet that his locomotion depended on his toes all being coplanar. Like, maybe his walking process included an 'are all toes in contact with a surface?' step, for balance purposes. Balancing on two points is way harder, because you have to evaluate your overall tilt, and there isn't too much you can do in the way of testing the ground before you commit to a step.
I think it's funnier that ED209, after testing the steps, decided to try to descend anyway! As proven by his introduction sequence, he obviously didn't undergo a whole lot of testing.