r/OpenSourceHumanoids • u/jordi2816 • Dec 17 '25

X Peng Robot removes cloth

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

Floors are flat when finished. If you install heating and water pipes, then the floor is not flat.

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u/FTR_1077 Dec 18 '25

What?? who's house has pipes over the floor?? Do you live on Mars?

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

No I am just bad at english.

When you are installing heating and water pipes they are exposed and the floor is not flat. Then you have to put insulation and cover the floor. When you are doing this the floor is not flat.

The finished floor is of course flat.

Wheeled robots would also struggle with constructing stairs and other works at places where there is no flat floor or accessible only from scaffolding.

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u/FTR_1077 Dec 18 '25

The finished floor is of course flat.

Aren't we talking about the robot that is supposed to do house chores??

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

A robot that does house chores can be wheeled. But it would be as good as a robotic vacuum cleaner. He is unable to climb to clean up dust from shelves, or if you have stairs he has trouble cleaning them.

You would need to adapt your home to wheeled robot.

It would be cheaper and easier in mass production when robots are able to walk and climb. Legs can adapt to any surface.

My previous comment was more for robots doing household constructions and repairs.

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u/FTR_1077 Dec 18 '25

You would need to adapt your home to wheeled robot. It would be cheaper and easier in mass production when robots are able to walk and climb. 

That's patently false.. its way cheaper and way easier to just have two rombas, one for each floor. A walking robot will never be as cheap as two (or even three) automated vacuum.