The world is full of curbs, stairs, lips, rugs, vehicles, etc. If you're a human-scale robot then your wheels need really wide base to not tip over all the time, so you are extremely awkward in any kind of moderately constrained space. I wouldn't exchange my legs for wheels. Wheelchair users have to fight all the time for oversights to be corrected. I can see maybe see a wheel-based humanoid robot, but only as a compromise.
On the other hand there is not much reason to constrain ourselves to the unstable and tricky bipedal platform or insist on having a really top-heavy human-like torso. You could have 3-4 little legs on a dog scale body with several extra long upwards reaching arms for eg.
On the other hand there is not much reason to constrain ourselves to the unstable and tricky bipedal platform or insist on having a really top-heavy human-like torso. You could have 3-4 little legs on a dog scale body with several extra long upwards reaching arms for eg.