Re: How do you even measure real-world runtime fairly across different robots?
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:59 am
@emilyperez Same conclusion I've come to. Also worth noting:
Idle/standing power draw is often surprisingly close to a meaningful fraction of active walking power draw once you account for onboard compute, sensors, and balance-holding torque - 'doing nothing' still costs real energy on a humanoid. Thermal margin in a densely packed humanoid chassis is often the real limiting factor on sustained performance, not raw motor power - actuators get thermally throttled well before they'd hit their absolute torque limits, especially during repeated high-load cycles like continuous lifting.