When I was young… A 3,000kg humanoid robot trailed by 700m of cabling could take 3 steps before lighting itself on fire. And we were freaking out.
America doesn’t stand a chance against China… In terms of break dancing robits
Breakdancing
Takeaway: if you’re chased by a killer robot pull out a banana peel
Ngl the first save was impressive.
Can’t wait to laugh at a tripping killbot before it rights itself and wastes me with a patent pending 12 hour painful death injectable
It’s pretty impressive anyway. I wonder what another year of development will do?
I also prefer dancing robot to RoboCop and the firemen’s robot dogs.
they do have more successful dance shows too.
It’s funny now, just wait till it’s Fortnite dancing while chasing you with a machine gun and a flaming sword.
Great, so not only do we have to fight robots for access to water, they can now emote over our broken bodies
How long until Elon teaches his to teabag?
He needs to actually build a robot first, instead of a puppet controlled by an intern.
That was one of the first things it learned.
One of my favorite parts of vr fps like contractors is physically teabagging people. They are already being trained.
How amazing is that recovery after the first stumble?
Somewhere between more amazing than falling over and less amazing than being able to climb stairs.
Funny, but somehow that’s the most fair take that I think I’ve heard on this video and these robots.
I imagine it wasn’t trained for these lighting conditions and a monotone grey floor. But funny nonetheless.
I think it’s because it’s a pre programmed routine and the only autonomous thing it does is self balance it’s not even looking at the environment. These Unitree robots are nothing more than advanced RC toys. If you look at other videos with these robots you often see someone with a remote controller in their hands behind their back. If you buy one and want it to move autonomously and take into account the environment with computer vision you have to program that into the robot yourself.
Nailed the ending.
“BIG FINISH!!”
To be fair, I don’t remember MJ being anywhere near stairs, at least not with crazy dance steps.
They made a Frank Spencer robot.
I’m imagining most robots like this will be goose-stepping instead of dancing, so the inability to dance is probably not a big deal.
I think the dancing would probably be pretty bad for insurgency morale actually.
Apparently we stop the impending robot army by just putting up some steps at the border.
If it was me falling over the steps in a dance performance, I’d stay down after the second time too.
Sometimes you just have to let gravity win
Gravity indeed.
Comedian Fred Berry, the guy who played Rerun from “What’s Happening”, came with headliner Pauly Shore at a stand-up show in my hometown back in like 2000. Famous for his high voice, high energy, and red beret - he accidentally walked right off the frontend of the stage mid-set. He was portly, so it wasn’t graceful. He continues the rest of his set in the pit until he introduces Pauly on stage – to which Pauly books it top speed and jumps in after him.
MC: Would you 2 fools get outta there!
Pauly: No. We like down here!
Rerun: We’ve accepted our fate. It’s closer to hell down here.
Pauly: Trust me, I’d be easier if you just bring everyone into the pit.
That’s still pretty impressive, especially the first recovery.
Yeah that’s insanely impressive.
Sure it doesn’t exactly know where its feet are, but… like how many people do you know that could do 5 or 10 seconds of that?
Also the leg flailing was extremely rapid and thus comical.
8/10.
So many people are talking and so focused on AI that everyone’s been missing the robotics.
My husband has been showing me videos every week of robots from Japan, China, etc. Robotics has advanced insanely fast last few years.
Meh. Hard to feel excited about it. Humanoid robotics absolutely will not be beneficial for humanity in the current socioeconomic system. Best case is it spies on us and subverts democracy, worst case is it skullfucks people in impoverished nations to steal their land and resources.
Ultimately, no it won’t be beneficial but late stage capitalism is going to fuck us one way or the other with or without robotics.
Its still coming and where its at now is undeniably impressive.
The most beneficial uses on a more micro level however which I agree with are jobs that are dangerous to humans. I mean we have used robots for space and deep sea exploration forever (super neat drive).
Warehouse jobs are also dangerous due to risks of acute and chronic injuries. Humanoid robots are 100% going to make it there. In an ideal world our future would be Star Trek but to your point it will be more like Alien universe.
Are humanoid robots really the best choice? Seems like robot forklifts (exist), robot pallet jacks (exist), and some kind of box grabber arm would be more efficient. I’ve always thought that humanoid robots were being worked on just for thr challenge and the fun/spectacle factor (and I guess investor hype in the case of Musk).
Humanoid robots are great at operating in existing environments that were built for humans. Like, your house or an office or our streets.
Purpose built robots are almost always better at specific tasks, but if you want to drop in a robot in an existing environment or have it interact with existing products and equipment, humanoid is the way to go.
Amazon for example has TONS of purpose built robots that are not humanoid, but their entire warehouse system was designed from the ground up for them.
Very true. I think more specific robots are better for specific tasks. Like you said I think its for the challenge now. We didnt need a dancing robot or one that can make free throws lol
I’m more worried about the global backslide into authoritarianism than capitalism.
I’m more worried about the crater than the asteroid
That implies that only capitalism leads to a global backslide into authoritarianism which is historically very inaccurate. The rise of capitalism took power away from the crowns and the nobility like no other system ever has.
Sees an asteroid hurtling toward earth
don’t worry about that, the real problem is craters, which is caused by unicorns
Asteroid getting closer
Fucking unicorns creating disinfo about the cause of craters. Asteroids are indifferent and couldn’t be responsible for catastrophe, proving craters are caused by unicorns
Society becomes divided into two camps, an asteroid cult and people trying to stop the asteroid
the asteroid cult are a bunch of loons but the anti asteroid people are falling for unicorn propaganda, therefore are themselves morally equivalent to malicious unicorns
Asteroid hits earth, leaving a giant crater
Fucking anti asteroiders and their shitty craters.
Fair.
Can’t annihilate the human race without Cylons.
That was my thought. Like actually very close to making it through the recovery
And then went full Ashley Simpson.
(I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you write a rather fascinating tirade about how Ashley was the victim in all this, and I’m frankly trying to trigger you so that I can read it again.)
LEAVE ASHLEY ALONE!!1! 🫠🙃🤪😭
Surprisingly well, yeah. And looks a lot more lightweight than I imagined.
Much better than musk’s that couldn’t even walk
Which makes the poor thing dying at the end very unsettling.
Yeah, much more impressive than these choreographed performances.
You need to understand… regaining stability on a PERFECTLY FLAT AND PREDICTABLE surface is not new nor novel for robotics.
Oh gosh, you’re absolutely right. That was in no way impressive at all, and I should never have brought it up. Can you ever forgive me?
Your sarcasm only proves how absolutely pathetic you and everyone else’s understanding of robotics is.
Sounds like something a robot would say 🤔
Considering I’m shitting on the robots, that only further proves my point that ya’ll are brainless morons merely voting down that which you do not understand. Sad.
Holy fuck guys we found him. It’s the guy that’s been going around shitting on people’s robots
My dude, your username is literally “LurkingLuddite” and you’re doing exactly what a luddite that is lurking would do. You might as well be a bot* at that point lol
Your inability to grasp reality is both pathetic and hilarious
ya’ll are brainless morons merely voting down that which you understand.
Say again?
Given the complexity of the performance, and a clear miscalculation, which it was initially able to recover from, would say you’re not giving it enough credit.
No. It only recovered when it stumbled back into a flat area. That OBVIOUSLY demonstrates that it’s too stupid to deal with dynamic terrain.
Ok, you disrespect it now, but if you put a couple of M-249 saws on its arms, would you respect it then?
No
So that’s a “no” on forgiveness?
On two legs? After stumbling? That was impressive few years back on four legs (the robodogs).
To be fair, Spot (which I assume is the kind of robodog you were talking about) is already a decade old
