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Re: Unitree Robot Off-Road

#11

Anyone else get a sense of anxiety at the thought of a machine gun attached to one of those things?

The country where Unitree is based has not been in a major war in the past 30-40 years. Sure companies based in the western world can take inspiration from this but given the US-China conflict apparently in the works, it seems the advanced tech would be on the Chinese side.

Re: Unitree Robot Off-Road

#12
post #6

China is in the forefront of drones, EVs, batteries, robotics and solar. It can't really be considered much behind the US on AI. I think one day soon the US is going to get a rude awakening of being behind on tech. Probably once they come up with 4nm or less chips and that is likely not far off.

Eventually they’ll run out of things to copy, then progress will slow. Ultimately it’s a net positive if you’re interested in technological progress to have more people working on these problems.

Re: Unitree Robot Off-Road

#14

Anyone else get a sense of anxiety at the thought of a machine gun attached to one of those things?

Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlDLwTsRHtU Ghost Robotics has been working with the US Army putting weapons on their robot quadruped for several years now. Unitree is ahead of the game with their hardware+software ecosystem though.

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post #6

China is in the forefront of drones, EVs, batteries, robotics and solar. It can't really be considered much behind the US on AI. I think one day soon the US is going to get a rude awakening of being behind on tech. Probably once they come up with 4nm or less chips and that is likely not far off.

Regarding the AI part, there are a lot of chinese open-source LLMs and VLMs out there, and they are really great!

Re: Unitree Robot Off-Road

#19

This looks better than Robo dog in the sense that it's being robot, not an animal/human replica, using those wheels. That's how a robot should be. And it looks fantastic with those moves. Video does not say if those moves were made by a human behind remote control or was the robot doing it by itself? It will be many times more impressive if the robot was avoiding collisions by itself.

"Part of the function requires human operation or secondary development to realize, different configurations vary" - https://www.unitree.com/b2-w
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