bipeds

If robots didn't have to navigate an environment built for bipeds, other configurations would be far more reliable/efficient.

Mapping leads to directions leads to scanning leads to navigation leads to automated cars leads to autonomous bipeds.

Most, kangaroos and some lemurs in your list being the exception, do not move around primarily as bipeds.

Also, humans are upright bipeds in a body that has the architectural hallmarks of a system for quadripedal locomotion.

Seriously, you think anyone is gonna cross 50 light-years to kill a bunch of featherless bipeds and plunder some common rocks?

Robot cars drifitng and bipeds doing backflips and pushups when handstanding on one arm.

Embrace the 'all too human' aspects of the strange bipeds you interact with.

WW3: Chinese army of intelligent bipeds vs USA waifu memes and based jokes.

My water comes from rain that fell before the first bipeds left Africa.

Also, humans do not run very well in snow (bipeds, too much weight per surface area, too high center of gravity and stride length...).

I would say that humans are sexually dimorphic in the same way that humans are bipeds.

Perhaps less important for war machines (particularly giant ones): the world that we have built for ourselves is built for bipeds.

Reprinted as "Science and Society" inGreetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!

As told by wikipedia: > "When Plato gave Socrates' definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold!

And if we're expected to roll up the large bipeds (bigfoot, yeti, skunk ape, letiche, et al -- many of which with very distinct reported features) shouldn't we have rolled up "sea monsters" and dismissed the colossal squid until (almost literally) someone dropped it onto our faces?