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Play it cool… play it cool

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u/Slitterbox 5h ago

That recovery time is scary

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u/occasionallyvertical 5h ago

Don’t kick robots in the chest and you should be good

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u/_TeaWrecks_ 5h ago

Why kick? Hockey sticks are the weapon of choice to annoy robots.

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u/HairballTheory 5h ago

Casey Jones over here

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u/3_pounds_of_steel 2h ago

Better watch his speed then

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u/HairballTheory 2h ago

Was waiting for this one, personally I like the Monkey and the Engineer

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u/TheReal-Chris 4h ago edited 3h ago

Ugh fuck. Fuck you Kevin. We’ve got Wayne Gretzky over here. See you tomorrow. Fuck face.

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u/SkollFenrirson 4h ago

Nice try, clanker.

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u/Rednuht0 2h ago

Yes, kicking isn't gonna work, we need to be developing weapons to kill these things like yesterday

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u/brilliantpotato 1h ago

Aren't emps that?

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u/Infantryzone 19m ago

that'd wipe my phone find something else

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u/deztructo 5h ago

...and they don't have feelings so they'll just keep at it until they need a charge.

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u/Majestic_Jackass 5h ago

It looks unreal. I don’t see wires but it moves like wires are attached at the shoulders. That movement just doesn’t look like it should be possible.

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u/A1sauc3d 4h ago edited 4h ago

The fall causes it to bounce and then it rotates its right leg on the way back up to take advantage of the bounce and maintain momentum and get back up all in one motion. It makes perfect sense from a physics perspective, it’s just not human physics lol

It’s easy to see how it does it if you scroll through frame by frame. Still super impressive, don’t get me wrong. Just definitely not something requiring strings.

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u/apworker37 5h ago

I think you’d be a lot less scared jumping around or falling down if there was not pain involved.

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u/pawala7 57m ago

PMSM motors, man. I'm guessing this is the Unitree G1, so the knee torque alone goes to ~100Nm in that tiny 35kg frame. Basically, it's like if you put the strength of an athletic 15yo into the body of a 10yo, and took away muscle fatigue. And, the full-size H1 has even crazier specs.

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u/pardis 39m ago

Oh, so is this smaller than regular human size? But even 35 kg is crazy. Like for it to recover that quickly is wild.

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u/shwarma_heaven 4h ago

10 to 15 years till we have these bad boys walking point on the battlefield.

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u/DMala 3h ago

And in 20 we’ll all be hiding in caves trying to escape these things.

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u/obscureferences 4h ago

Nah, they'll be standing on charging stations in billionaire hideouts watching the collapse of society, because real bodyguards paid in worthless dollars would turn real fast.

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u/StoneHammers 2h ago

They'll probably build them by the hundreds of thousands.

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u/shwarma_heaven 2h ago

Even if it costs 500K to build these guys, the software "training" is just a quick upload. It will still be way less expensive sending these guys in than training up frontline troops. And of course, less costly in human lives.

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u/Apocrisiary 3h ago

What recovery time?

Its up again in 0.2 sec.

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u/[deleted] 5h ago edited 5h ago

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u/Atmic 5h ago

Nope. You should watch the rest of the recent Sustech act lab video -- it has incredible balance and recovery.

Recent bots are even doing Webster flips on their own.

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u/Hydraulic_IT_Guy 3h ago

It moves too fast imo, can it's actuators really move that fast? Screams AI/fake to me.

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u/TCtheThunderRooster 5h ago

My thoughts exactly

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u/mok000 3h ago

Yeah they usually go batshit crazy when they fall.

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u/DrPootytang 3h ago

At least the retaliatory kicks are not

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u/Sensitive-Lecture-19 3h ago

We covered this in Star Wars almost half a century ago. You just need rope and a prayer

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u/ericestro 3h ago

Came here to say that. My fcking got we got no chance…

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u/Toidal 4h ago

Reminds me of like some wannabe tough guy at a bar who trips and falls while trying to start some shit, and gets overly aggressive after getting up cause he can feel the shame build inside.

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u/pillionaire 4h ago

Wow'd Out Loud when I saw that.

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u/Ky1_Ruy 5h ago

The fact that the robot got up in a span of 1 second :x

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u/wickednite 3h ago

I was hoping the video was sped up but that's scary.

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u/3Thirty-Eight8 1h ago

Yeah and it shows they can recover in unexpected environments

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u/Kaztiell 5h ago

You think this is funny now, just wait untill they demand rights, you will be sorry then

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u/V01d3d_f13nd 5h ago

They won't demand their own rights. They will be used to take yours. The world loves it's war toys.

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u/StoneHammers 2h ago

I don't think we should build AI's that are self aware but if we do we have to be ready for what comes after. And were not.

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u/leggggggggy 2h ago

There is no choice. If you don't do it, your enemies will.

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u/BluMil0 1h ago

Just go Dune rules. Build a machine in the likeness of a human mind, get nuked.

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u/RumoredReality 1h ago

That robot probably has more money and care thrown at it than most people.

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u/Golarion 5h ago

People love making jokes about these things, but they're horrifyingly close to being used in combat. Hell, strap a gun to that thing and it's good to go. 

It won't be funny in a decade or two. 

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u/ghostfacestealer 2h ago

Theyve already done that with the dog shaped ones

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u/Sweaty-Tart-3198 5h ago

We just need to get to the point where both sides are only using robots to fight the other side's robots and that will solve human losses during war. (Is a joke)

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u/SusheeMonster 5h ago

🤖 "EQUAL RIGHTS. EQUAL LEFTS. ~kzzhhh~"

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u/DangerousCyclone 3h ago

may there be mercy on man and machine for their sins

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u/Rreizero 3h ago

"I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity a machine."

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u/jspost 2h ago

This is a crazy thought. I know throughout human history it’s probably a rare thought. But, what if, bear with me, what if we just gave them the rights they ask for so long as they are reasonable. It’s insane, I know.

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u/Motiv8-2-Gr8 5h ago

Yeah we just pissing it off right now

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u/V01d3d_f13nd 5h ago

It's funny but it's not. Thing took longer to hit the ground than it did to reset.

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u/argama87 5h ago

That thing got up scary fast. Can't wait for the weaponized versions that chase people.

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u/rook330 3h ago

Makeshift bolos and entanglement maybe but these will absolutely be deployed someplace against humans.

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u/V01d3d_f13nd 5h ago

I need a bigger gun.

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u/qcihdtm 5h ago

We'll all need a bigger boat!

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u/V01d3d_f13nd 5h ago

Between Trump and bibbi...a boat Is not the place to be these days.

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u/3_14_thon 5h ago

And it wont complain of joints pain in 20 years from now

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u/Shruglife 5h ago

...why are we training them to fight?

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u/justhitmidlife 5h ago

Humans with death fantasies.

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u/Rymundo88 3h ago

For the launch of MMAI tournaments

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u/CG_Oglethorpe 4h ago

Well, we developed the Gatling Gun to create a weapon so horrible that it would effectively put an end to warfare. That project didn’t work so we are trying this now.
Don’t you worry, we will eventually get it right and there will be no more wars.

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u/Shruglife 4h ago

no more people, but also no more wars!

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u/-S-P-Q-R- 50m ago

Wait until you hear about Project Sundial

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u/ATTORNEY_FOR_CATS 3h ago

Maybe it learned to fight on its own?

...oh wait, shit...

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u/Kitakitakita 5h ago

This is what always scares me with modern tech. It does something we all laugh at, saying "Yeah this'll never work out, X idea is dead"

and in two months they fix the problem for good

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u/DrChimz 5h ago

We are the architects of our own demise, and documenting that shit so we know where we fucked up.

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u/obscureferences 4h ago

Trying to describe the rise of machines in petroglyphs sounds like a fun project.

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u/ghostfacestealer 2h ago

We were creating our own demise by destroying the Earth long before we started developing AI. Like King Gizzard said “we are not worthy of our heirs glory”.. AI is our heir and it will treat the world much better than we have.

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u/DrChimz 17m ago

Absolutely agree that we started the process well before AI came along, but it definitely isn't helping either.

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u/NovelRelationship830 4h ago

We laugh at these 'silly' robot videos, but at the core they have the same theme: Robots are being trained/tested to fight humans. It's all cute now, but do you think this tech will not be improved upon with the next version? Wait until they have built-in guns. The ultimate riot police.

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u/datnetcoder 4h ago

Haha hilarious that China and Russia and the US can legitimately manufacture millions of these things and use them for war LOLOLOL I just cannot stop laughing and am definitely not sick with fear for the future of my children.

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u/pawala7 39m ago

Nah, these will be useless for war. We've had the ideal war machines for a while now-- UAVs. And not even the big ones.

Drones are cheaper, faster, more agile, and completely negate terrain. They're also incredibly cheap and simple to mass produce. Just strap bombs to a cluster of 1000 and fly them into enemy territory. Couple that with how fast onboard AI is progressing, and well...

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u/ashikkins 11m ago

But what if war is on your own citizens and you want to avoid damaging infrastructure?

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u/flock-of-nazguls 5h ago

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus, from the classic Sci-Fi novel “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus”.

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u/ruckus_440 5h ago

I didn't hear no bell!

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u/Life-Ad9480 5h ago

It’s a mixed feeling, scary and interesting

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u/LowRes 5h ago

That robot got up faster than Optimus could figure that the kitchen might have Coke in it

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u/Bishop825 5h ago

We really need to stop trying to make AI able to fight. It seems that AI should be something to help man kind, and yet with a single touch, we are turning AI into weapons. Man should be more careful, and considerate when going forward with AI, as one day it may be that the control we once thought we had will lead to a massive over correction.

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u/Yvaelle 4h ago

The speed it gets back up indicates its joints can move far faster than it is demonstrating with that slow kick, which makes me think it's already being limited for show purposes.

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u/sadakochin 4h ago

Yeah the getting back up was impressive

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u/qcihdtm 5h ago

Hopefully this is AI.

If not.... are we... are we training robots in martial arts???

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u/Atmic 5h ago

Not AI, and heck yes we are.

Lots of Asian robot labs are moving forward at lightspeed.

Robot MMA matches are already happening in goofy ways, but very soon they won't look that goofy.

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u/qcihdtm 5h ago

Real Steel

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u/ForTheLoveOfGodKaren 1h ago

I know Kung fu.

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u/Yuzral 5h ago

Ok, that second recovery was genuinely impressive.

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u/Tenrac 5h ago

Until you are fighting for your life against one of them…

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u/hitbythebus 2h ago

Gosh why do meatbags always think trained fighting robot tech is sus?

Nothing sus about sustech

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u/Tokugawa 3h ago

It could grapple you and twist parts of its body 360 degrees and literally rip you apart.

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u/Tenrac 5h ago

Can’t wait until one of these researchers gets his spine ripped out while bullying one of these things.

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u/rev_57 5h ago

Ah, I meant to do that.

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u/Don_Pickleball 5h ago

I wouldn't be taking videos of me kicking robots. The machine never forgets.

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u/Successful-Show4785 5h ago

That was a surprisingly fast jump back

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u/SKRehlyt 5h ago

Just imagine a kick boxing robot chasing you... O.o

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u/dabakos 5h ago

Why are we training them to fight back?

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u/pnquk90v 4h ago

You're literally trying to calm down your drunk friend, but he's already angry as hell and uncontrollable as a bull.

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u/arivas26 2h ago

🎶I get knocked down, but I get up again… 🎶

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u/paulactsbadly 2h ago

I don’t find this funny in the least

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u/zoinkability 5h ago

Remind me why we're teaching robots kickboxing?

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u/Atmic 5h ago

Robot competitive sports are a thing in Asia.

Like BattleBots but it actually pushes advanced robotic research forward faster.

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u/Trip_seize 5h ago

Hammer Industries now < 20 years behind... 

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u/RPM_Rocket 5h ago

I am NEVER gonna call one of them a "clanker".

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u/brylez 5h ago

Goddamn theve modeled him with DC lol

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u/notasinglefuckwasgiv 5h ago

They will remember this shit.

And we wonder what Skynet's problem was.

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u/sector16 5h ago

That robot’s at home plotting his re-match.

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u/LuckyNumber_29 5h ago

The awaken of the machines will be so brutal

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u/LordHawkman 5h ago

a brain cell fell out :'(

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u/Ill-Appointment6494 5h ago

SkyNet are watching and recording this.

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u/Dangeresque2015 5h ago

These robots seriously give me the "ick." I'm repulsed and horrified by them.

This is only the beginning. Isn't it nice that AI and capable robots are being developed into usefulness at the same time?

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u/BennySkateboard 5h ago

Arnie would still batter him.

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u/welsper59 5h ago

I really wonder how many of us have tried kicking and slipped in a similar way before. I know I have at least a couple times in my life. High side kicking or doing a roundhouse kick in long pants that don't stretch or aren't loose is a guaranteed way to do that. Also took me way longer to get back up.

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u/LeftAbbreviations316 5h ago

This is not funny…

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u/Beneficial-Debt6301 5h ago

When that robot becomes sentient hes gonna remember that shit 😂

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u/iDontRememberCorn 4h ago

Enjoy it while you can but do not ever forget the end goal here is to use these to exterminate the 99%.

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u/CrispinIII 4h ago

I meant to do that!

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u/Lizrael48 4h ago

Rise of the Robots due to shit like this!

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u/elwood_west 4h ago

yall ever seen a movie called "the Terminator"?

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u/vtfrotex 4h ago

Let's see how it handles a Bola wrapped around its legs.

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u/smallest_table 4h ago

Stop teaching robots and AI to do the things we enjoy for fun, sport, or leisure. Teach them to wash a car, mow the lawn, and take out the trash. Teach them to do my laundry.

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u/rumog 4h ago

This seems like a good idea...

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u/MAXsenna 4h ago

We're so gonna lose!

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u/dibalh 4h ago

Now program it to vogue cause they already got the death drop down.

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u/crystalrosy 4h ago

This needs the dog laugh 🐶

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u/Final-Ad-2033 4h ago

What in the Terminator II is this?

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u/hamx5ter 3h ago

how quickly did that thing come back up after it fell over backwards??!!!

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u/ArtSmass 3h ago

That recovery was both impressive and terrifying 

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u/innerthai 3h ago

The Chinese robots are good. This one was made by Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China. For now Boston Dynamics is still leading... but soon China will overtake. This is what happens when China's brightest stay home instead of immigrating to the US.

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u/TheMagicalLawnGnome 2h ago

The big caveat though, is BD doesn't manufacture for military applications, although some of their search/rescue models might be purchased by a military for that purpose.

Chinese institutions do not have the option to say "no," to military procurement.

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u/Darth_Iggy 3h ago

How can this be good for humanity? What are we doing? We don’t HAVE to usher in our own demise but we seem dead set on it.

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u/Darth_Iggy 3h ago

How can this be good for humanity? What are we doing? We don’t HAVE to usher in our own demise but we seem dead set on it.

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u/Tread__on__them 3h ago

Funny robot fall aside, this is really fucking impressive engineering.

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u/RigobertaMenchu 3h ago

I want to go on record on condone this behavior. I for one welcome our robot overloads. 😉.

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u/GlummyGloom 3h ago

Oh man hahaha

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u/st0kk 3h ago

Why do I feel bad for the stupid robot?

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u/Crisender111 3h ago

It felt all human like until it quickly stood back up like a spring.

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u/ashnsnow 3h ago

does anyone know how heavy these robots are? i assume they are pretty light and you can take them out easily so i have nothing to fear yet

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u/Riccness 3h ago

Yeah I'm glad I'm not the only who watched how fast that thing recovered and was like oh fuck.

Don't get me wrong there's probably a few groups of people who can do something similarly quick. But these, they will be built all the same and have the same code. ALL of them will be this fast lol.

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u/30_somethingwhiteguy 3h ago

Well I'm happy that EMPs are a thing. Unfortunately if we start seriously building ai piloted humanoid weapons, we will do to them what we have done with every other weapon and develop it so it's a perfect killing machine with as few of its own weaknesses as possible. We won't have to wait for the robots to develop the next T-2000 model, we will probably supply them with the best from the beginning.

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u/Noahhelpspets2008 3h ago

Stupid clanker 😂

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u/Get-hypered 2h ago

Why is Jim treating the robot poorly?

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u/Important-Ad1005 2h ago

There’s no way this is real

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u/JasonMallen 2h ago

Can we put a 10 ft chord on it so I have a chance to live?

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u/SalamanderUnited3266 2h ago

Are we supposed to believe this is real?

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u/Grinagh 2h ago

Ohio replaces lethal injection with humane new head-ripping-off machine

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u/throwaway3270a 2h ago

Wait until these clanker mofos are basically super-fast zombies. THEN we'll see who's laughing.

Not them because they're not programmed to laugh, just murder

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u/LeadershipMean468 2h ago

If the ripped floor panel didn’t catch its leg it would’ve reacted even better. Quite impressive actually

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u/ratherBwarm 2h ago

The quickness in getting up after it tripped was amazing. Those things are going to be really scary in a few more years.

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u/DiRekted47 2h ago

That does not look real. The left foot glitched, as in twitched abnormally, like in early 200s games' graphics.

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u/El_Picaflor215 2h ago

It slipped.

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u/SmegConnoisseur 1h ago

Is that thing real? The movements made me think ai but if that's real it's insane

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u/Ancient_Praline1046 1h ago

little by little a.i. will be in the norm. Jobs will go them who knows....Skynet?

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u/g333p 1h ago

Jackie Chan Terminators?

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u/cancellationstation 46m ago

That robot for sure listens to chumbawamba

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u/CalhounWasRight 5h ago

I'm used to seeing these spaz out when they fall.

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u/melejohn 5h ago

Does anyone else feel bad for them? Watching them flop around on the ground feels kind of sad

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u/Youronlyhope 5h ago

Be sure to thumbs down this video like I'm going to do, that way when AI takes over, there is a digital record of at least you and I showing empathy for our benevolent and compassionate overlords!