Talk:Quadrapod

Trademark/brand

I have found multiple instances of "quadrapod" used to describe four legged robotics or other mechanical objects with four legs. (As opposed to "quadraped" used to describe animals that use four legs for locomotion.) Examples include:

• Keizus Quadrapod
• Lynxmotion mechDOG Quadrapod - click on "SES-V2 Legged"

• However: SES-V2 - mechDOG Quadruped

• "Quadrapod Technologies"

• Classic Quadrapod™ Copy Stand
• Quadrapod Elite™ Copy Stand

• QuadraPod - Elite
• Fugetek 62" Professional Selfie Stick Quadrapod
• Quadrapod
• Minican Quadrapod Stand

However, I also found one robotics company naming their four legged robots as "quadraped:"

• Quadruped Robots

Meanwhile, I did not find "Quadrapod" trademarked, although I did find trademarks that included "quadrapod" as part of their name, per:

• QUADRA-POD (with hyphen) - Status: 710 - Cancelled - Section 8
• QUADRAPOD ELITE - Status: 710 - Cancelled - Section 8

In summary, it appears that "Quadrapod" is not, possibly never was, trademarked - although derivatives appear to have been previously trademarked - then subsequently cancelled (Status: 710) In conclusion, it appears that "quadrapod" is frequently used to describe equipment or robots with four legs (as opposed to animals with four legs that are described as "quadraped)." Nevertheless, as noted above, Quadruped Robots uses "quadraped."
Enquire (talk) 18:43, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

I did not check for trademarks and wasn't claiming any existed; I was making the weaker claim that companies use this word as a name for their products rather than as a descriptor. Of your links, several of them seem like examples of this; Keizus is a particularly clear one. The last few are probably counterexamples, though.

I think my revised position on this is that "quadrapod" is a variant spelling of the more common "quadruped", primarily (with one exception) used for inanimate objects. But "quadruped" can also be used for inanimate objects, and this article kind of implies otherwise, effectively saying "a quadruped is an animal and a quadrapod is a robot". That's the real thing I don't like here. If this is a thing that should have an article separate from quadruped, I'd rather see Quadrupedal robot (currently a redirect to a section there) become that article and mention this usage.

(Did you mean to deprod this? You didn't actually do so.) ℰmi1y_⧼T·C⧽ 06:38, 29 March 2024 (UTC)