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how is this robot seems to have perfect traction ? its either rolls perfectly without traction or walks uphill with perfect traction ? is it AI generated video or did they make some groundbreaking success ? or is it just promo video, showing future potential, not yet developed capabilities ?
when can i hop on its back and ride it like an all-terrain ultra-longboard?
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You say that now, but wait until one of these is charging at you across a field with a QBZ-95 strapped to its back and a 1024 resolution thermal sensor.
I'd be more scared of MQ-9 dropping a JDAM or R9X on my head than this thing running around. They're proven to be undetectable to human targets. That's scarier to me than this thing running around catching wires and bushes.
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Chinese work ethic driven by overproduction of STEM majors leading to 25% youth unemployment...also they probably stole a lot of the fundamental stuff that was super hard to produce but easy to copy and build on top of. On the other side: Years of VC focusing on the next great app to make you some cooked eggs instead of investing in companies operating in the physical world.
I often hear about "muh china stealing", two questions come to mind: 1. how could they steal something that western companies dont even have yet? 2. for more fundamental stuff, western companies did transfer knowledge themselves by moving factories to China, in exchange for decades of access to China market and exorbitant profits they earned. Where exactly is "supposed stealing" in unitree ?
It's basically the patent problem.
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I often hear about "muh china stealing", two questions come to mind: 1. how could they steal something that western companies dont even have yet? 2. for more fundamental stuff, western companies did transfer knowledge themselves by moving factories to China, in exchange for decades of access to China market and exorbitant profits they earned. Where exactly is "supposed stealing" in unitree ?
Steal info from 10 different companies, and combine it to make a product better than any of the 10 individual products copied. It's basically the patent problem.
To my knowledge, China has never been caught infringing on US patents on US soil. A lot of Chinese innovations are simply orders of magnitude better than any US alternative, for example TikTok's algorithm and TikTok as a short-video social network.
So please answer my question, how could China steal anything that either 1) Western companies explicitly granted as part of Joint Venture corporation, 2) Western companies havent even developed themselves, and at best, only possess inferior version, generation or two behind the state of the art?
in IP realm, India for example forcefully nationalizes all pharmaceutical IP and produces generics of brand name drugs for its internal market (1970 Patents Act)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI relevant link. I remember watching this video with the takeaway: if you want it secure, build it yourself... which is what I am currently doing.
We need open source versions of these. 1. We need the capability to build the servos, actuators, etc. Supply chain, factories, specialized vendors. 2. We need to dump the firmware, decompile it, extract the models, and liberate it all. AI will help immensely with that. We can literally hijack everything software that isn't delivered over cloud now - so this is the easy part. We can then fine tune, adapt to new tasks,…
I want to see it performing in sand or in very dry soil environment too. They didn't show that in these videos.
Even if the AS2-W isn't capable of doing that today, it's a fairly obvious goal for future development given how generally useful wheels are otherwise.
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We need open source versions of these. 1. We need the capability to build the servos, actuators, etc. Supply chain, factories, specialized vendors. 2. We need to dump the firmware, decompile it, extract the models, and liberate it all. AI will help immensely with that. We can literally hijack everything software that isn't delivered over cloud now - so this is the easy part. We can then fine tune, adapt to new tasks,…
You can’t raise money for theft / piracy. Just have your claw guide you through the hardware.
Security review, checking for bugs or spyware, repairing your own hardware you own, modifying your own hardware you own, measuring performance, ...
It's legitimate as hell.