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Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

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

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Post by ponector »

k_kelly wrote: post #63

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 deman…

>> None of these are actually useful right now.

They could be really useful: without hesitation such humanoid could bring pack of explosives to the opposed treeline.

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

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Post by jbstack »

energy123 wrote: post #74
k_kelly wrote: post #63

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 deman…

> I don't want something with the arm strength of a forklift taking care of my parents or kids. A risk I never hear discussed is falling over and injuring children. Even the petite Unitree models are like a 70kg piece of furniture. Each year thousands get injured because of furniture falling over. I'd buy one immediately, but if I had kids or pets, I would wait for safety data on falls.

Humans have a similar weight and can also fall, so would you be satisfied with a fall rate the same or better than an average human?

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

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Post by fragmede »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #45

What is the most impressive is the robustness. Of course they are following a captured human routine, but they are facing so many disturbances from which they need to recover and keep following the desired trajectories, while under multiple constraints (movement ranges, not losing balance, etc). You can see on the backflips that all robots landed quite differently, some with both knees on the ground, some with one, s…

Oh god the bickering. For self driving cars, lidar vs cameras is totally missing the point. Waymo can drive with cameras only. The AGI question is what decisions does it make when things go wrong.

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

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Post by jbstack »

raincole wrote: post #29
slimebot80 wrote: post #25

I assume this is highly staged as a set routine? No less impressive, but is it likely each robot autonomously learned a routine? Or just got programmed for a very exact act?

I'm not so sure what this question means... are you asking if China has AGI right now? I'm quite sure all similar performances done by humans are all staged.

Where human performances are staged, the human still needs be capable of learning the choreography. There's a difference between a robot learning the routine vs having it hardwired.

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

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Post by fragmede »

pan69 wrote: post #97
verdverm wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

3 hours according to the website, and the battery looks to be quick swappable

Can it swap its own battery?

No, it cannot. That's why the right design for robots is for it to have two, so it doesn't have to do the Bemo fall.

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

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Post by verdverm »

fragmede wrote: post #105
pan69 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can it swap its own battery?

No, it cannot. That's why the right design for robots is for it to have two, so it doesn't have to do the Bemo fall.

but can you play games on its face like Bemo, Cozmo, and Vector?

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

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Post by lukan »

slimebot80 wrote: post #25

I assume this is highly staged as a set routine? No less impressive, but is it likely each robot autonomously learned a routine? Or just got programmed for a very exact act?

The learning here is about what servor motors to control how much. But the performance was 100% staged and preprogrammed. Still impressive.

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

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Post by AngryData »

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #95
tw1984 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

spot dog is hydraulically powered junk, unitree is motor driven from day one. Boston Dynamics was forced to switch to a motor driven architecture after it is proven by unitree. Boston Dynamics is the follower here.

why is hydraulics junk?

Perhaps because of the potentially slower actuation speed, but you also generally get a lot more power from hydraulics so im not sure one can claim it is junk. Far less acrobatic, but also far more sumo wrestler.

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

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Post by elil17 »

kasperni wrote: post #72
alex43578 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So Atlas can lift 7x the capacity. Even Digit, the tote-consolidating robot, can do 35lbs. Unitree's demos are a lot of fun, and the antics of releasing the G1 to the public has certainly captured people's attention, but a "working" robot won't look, act, or develop from the G1 or even H2.

Unitree has plenty other industrial robots. https://www.unitree.com/ -> Click Robots

I wasn't trying to say that Unitree is somehow deficient. I'm sure they could build Atlas if they wanted.

My point was that BD could probably build a robot with the shown acrobatic capabilities, but they choose not to because their goal is to build robots that carry heavy loads for industrial applications.

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