Self-balancers are a milestone in your robot building life ... He chose steppers over cheaper DC motors because this delivers precision and avoids issues when the battery voltage drops.
For example, to use a DC motor in a robot leg, one might expect to need a gearbox, a motor driver, plus an encoder for position sensing. If smooth, organic motion is desired, some sort of ...
TI launches functionally isolated modulators that enable higher precision and higher resolution in compact robot designs.
A YouTuber has shared his latest project, Legion Mark I, a robot that can both crawl like an insect and drive like a car.