Human walking is just us falling forward and then subconsciously correcting it - research found that our footsteps are never the same and can vary by up to 80%.<p>It seems like a hard problem this human locomotion - almost like self driving cars.
Not very surprising that a company with a lot of experience in building electric motors goes for servos.<p>Doesn't necessarily make it a right choice, though.<p>However, Tesla (usually) does the right thing after exhaustively trying all the wrong ones first. :-)
You realize both rocket and car manufacturing experts said the same type of things when Elon entered their fields. He can’t do this, can’t do that, should do this, should do that… etc<p>Let’s see how things progress 5 years from now