Talk:Self-righting mechanism

This article is missing an important category of self-righting robots: Space robots.

See the 1999 NASA/JPL paper, "Evolution of Autonomous Self-Righting Behaviors for Articulated Nanorovers," https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/handle/2014/17585

And "A Hopping Robot for Planetary Exploration," https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/publications/Matthew_Heverly/Hopping_Robot.pdf

The NASA Mars Pathfinder lander had self-righting features, too. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/pathfinder/

The NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) had two rovers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover

I'm sorry that I don't have the time to edit the article on self-righting mechanisms to include these references, but I hope that you other Wiki editors can help.

Kjenks (talk) 16:28, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article focuses excessively on combat robot sports, should be rewritten

The field of self-righting is relevant to many fields of robotics e.g. industrial robots, humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, and this article reads as though it's an article from the Robot Wars wiki rather than Wikipedia. The list of Robot Wars robots with self-righting mechanisms is unnecessary and should be moved to a page focusing on the features of combat sport robots. The article doesn't even mention robots such those of Boston Dynamics which are capable of much more advanced self-righting techniques. ChainsawHands (talk) 17:24, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]