RoboSpeed

With regard to some of your comments regarding speed calculation for robots
that you included with the design package you uploaded:

I would expect that many robots would be operating in a mixed human/robot
environment, such as an office, a hotel, or a starship.  In that case, I
think that the amount of clutter in most people's offices/hallways/homes
would tend to keep robot speed low regardless of the theoretical maximum.

I know that if I had a wheeled Naasirka Office Mate here and I sent it to
the coffee maker for a cup of coffee it would have to dodge around a lot
of junk in the halls (not to mention the rest of the people).  There
wouldn't be a chance of zipping down there at 100kph.  Similarly, a grav robot
should probably be considered to be using NOE speed for most building interiors
which would limit them to 40kph unless they had avionics.  Even then, I hate
to get bumped by a 100kph robot in the hall.

Anyway, if you sent these robots out on the roads or other trafficways by
themselves, they could then use their speed effectively.  I know using the
P/W calculations on wheeled/tracked/legged robots will tend to make them
fast because they need a lot (comparatively) of power to run peripherals,
but there is really no reason to design an indoor grav robot with more than
a nominal amount of excess thrust (.1G or so?).  So some of this could be
covered in the design section without having to do a separate table for them.

Rob Dean