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Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

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Post by eunos »

mesrik wrote: post #22
pixelesque wrote: post #7

Some people on X are saying they're "just" cloning/copying "puppet" human movements. I know very little about robotics, but given these appear totally free-standing, if that was the case (I personally don't think it is), wouldn't that imply they have the same centre of gravity and weight of limbs as humans? Surely they'd have to be able to balance themselves, and copying a human's movements "exactly" wouldn't work fo…

Yes, the autonomy level of these robots was what I was yesterday emailing with my former colleagues we were wondering. Two months ago CNET & PC-Mag posted following video which suggests more about robots movements being assisted by humans. And it also shows Chinese have being edge of the development at that point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTibM33SDg However, then another short video bit alike popped up and is…

I can think that future use of pingpot robot is to replicate specific pro player style (from various recording) and be used to spar by pro players before their specific matches.

Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

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Post by dachris »

kasperni wrote: post #20

To best understand the speed of progress right now, take a look at the show from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIq_AM4q534

It looks like the difference between the Boston Dynamics robots 2016 vs 2021

The Spot dog (which inspired the Black Mirror "Metalhead" episode) in 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng

Atlas doing backflips in 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FByY3tSx2Ak

So 5 years of progress within a year.

Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

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Post by k_kelly »

This is AMAZING.

We are definitely on an exponential in term of capabilities of humanoid robots. We are probably only years away from having a robot in the house, in construction of robots. Automating anything that a human can do is best done in a human sized robot.

But.

None of these are actually useful right now. I don't want something with the arm strength of a forklift taking care of my parents or kids. The demand for humanoid robots right now is like lift a fridge from a delivery truck to a house (aka more mobile forklift) or walk through toxic sewage to pull crates out. Super useful but basically just mobile cranes, which is a small market. China seems to be making the mistake of pushing a tech demo as a consumer product (we've all been on those projects...) which can make people hate the tech.

Build something people want, don't mandate what they want. We're like 3-4 generations from amazing, useful robots. I'll be scared when these things are minding a bunch of dogs on stage.

Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

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Post by eunos »

tw1984 wrote: post #52

Well, that is obviously another overcapacity issue, this time for robotics. In the last 10 weeks, there were - Unitree's army of robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4IOJH9Akhg Robotera sword dancing robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ti9Mi8rbIQ AGIbot's flying kicks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXnXdh6IEkA LimX's Tron2 robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3QFPr7hyo one interesting observation is that n…

Agibot is not in Shenzhen? I think what happened is that other major cities/provinces like Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai or Hefei started bankrolling talents and enterprises so they too can have major high tech enterprises in their town

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Post by tw1984 »

pixelesque wrote: post #7

Some people on X are saying they're "just" cloning/copying "puppet" human movements. I know very little about robotics, but given these appear totally free-standing, if that was the case (I personally don't think it is), wouldn't that imply they have the same centre of gravity and weight of limbs as humans? Surely they'd have to be able to balance themselves, and copying a human's movements "exactly" wouldn't work fo…

> balancing their own motion a bit individually.

check this 4 months old video below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPSLMX_V38E

I'd willing to bet that it is already close to impossible to get the robot lose its balance without some significant external forces.

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Post by suddenlybananas »

holoduke wrote: post #9
pixelesque wrote: post #7

Some people on X are saying they're "just" cloning/copying "puppet" human movements. I know very little about robotics, but given these appear totally free-standing, if that was the case (I personally don't think it is), wouldn't that imply they have the same centre of gravity and weight of limbs as humans? Surely they'd have to be able to balance themselves, and copying a human's movements "exactly" wouldn't work fo…

Those are the same people that say that China is 30 years behind in chip manufacturing.

I don't know if you're aware but robots and chips are different things that require different expertise.

Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

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Post by avereveard »

decimalenough wrote: post #41
avereveard wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfair reading bordering with propaganda. On one hand Boston Dynamics showed similar skill robot well before this demo, only without coreography, which is were most of the wow effect comes from here. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk Heck check were they were 5 years ago https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw&pp=0gcJCUABo7VqN5t... Things is american research is financed by outcome potential not for grandst…

China installed 295,000 industrial robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined, and has over 2M deployed total. China makes its own robots (57% indigenous) and its rate of robot deployment continues to grow year to year. Meanwhile, the US installed 34,200, a decrease on the previous year, and virtually all of those were imported. https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/global-robot-demand-...

Do these dance?

And what was the % of industrial capacity non automated over this percentage increase, because of course an industrializing country will have more manual processes to automate.

Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

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Post by eunos »

rolymath wrote: post #15

1) Cool, but when are they actually going to drive my car for me? 2) Any semblance of American technological superiority is pure fantasy at this point. The only area where Americans are truly "advanced" is in selling overpriced SaaS products. There are dozens of Chinese startups with robots just like this—as seen at CES—yet Boston Dynamics is still treated like it’s some untouchable, DARPA-level tech. 3) A lot of thi…

Also hardwares availability. I saw some X threads that mentioned how US/EU robotics labs/companies need week to procure new hardwares, Chinese ones need days at most. Cant iterate quickly with that constraint.

Imagine you need weeks to start a new software module development and to procure cloud instances.

Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

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Post by tw1984 »

eunos wrote: post #64
tw1984 wrote: post #52

Well, that is obviously another overcapacity issue, this time for robotics. In the last 10 weeks, there were - Unitree's army of robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4IOJH9Akhg Robotera sword dancing robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ti9Mi8rbIQ AGIbot's flying kicks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXnXdh6IEkA LimX's Tron2 robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3QFPr7hyo one interesting observation is that n…

Agibot is not in Shenzhen? I think what happened is that other major cities/provinces like Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai or Hefei started bankrolling talents and enterprises so they too can have major high tech enterprises in their town

> Agibot is not in Shenzhen?

AGIBot is the poster boy of the municipal government of Shanghai.

> major cities/provinces like Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai or Hefei started bankrolling talents and enterprises so they too can have major high tech enterprises in their town

State Capitalism at its best.

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