Walkers: Vehicle or Droid?

[Fallon Kell]

When does fly-by-wire, or in this case, step-by-wire become droid technology anyway? I would guess with some degree of sentience/intelligence, which there is no evidence to suggest walkers posses. It is pretty clear, however from the way the AT-ST trips on the rolling logs trap, that they have some automated capacity to balance on their own. Perhaps they have something like a droid's gross motor motivator (comparable to our own cerebellum), but no equipment for the higher thought processes that would make them droids.
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Complete Starship Construction System

[CRMcNeill]

Well, mostly in the same sense that a basic cargo loader droid (which has only sufficient processing ability to pick up a box and move it from point A to point B) still must have a basic brain function, as well as sensors to pick out an appropriate path to travel without running into things. In the same sense, a droid intelligence operating a walker would use its own optical sensors to identify obstacles in its designated path of travel so as to pick out the best places to step. It could also provide feedback to the driver if it detects potentially hazardous conditions.
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