Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
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#2Just submitted this as well. This is remarkable. Boston Dynamics has some catchup to do.
Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
#3Just submitted this as well. This is remarkable. Boston Dynamics has some catchup to do.
To be fair to BD, Atlas can lift 50 kg and a Unitree G1 can lift about 2 kg. An Atlas could literally pick up and throw a G1.
They are very different robots with very different goals, so it should be no surprise that the G1 appears much more agile.
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#4there is reason why in those 5 minutes you see them together in same shot with audience only 2 times and only for few seconds
there is reason why most of the shots are not wide angle showing whole scene, seems they learned their lesson from last year where you could easily see on the edges all the failures
this was heavily edited and repeated, I mean is it really surprising considering all CGI you see during whole gala? I watched whole 5 hours (though skimmed through a lot), they just can't make show same as seen by real people on the site, what you see in TV is very different from what audience has seen
edit: the whole gala show is recording, it would be impossible to organize such event across many cities with so many performances live, olympics opening ceremony is walk in the park compared to this
Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
#5there is reason why in those 5 minutes you see them together in same shot with audience only 2 times and only for few seconds there is reason why most of the shots are not wide angle showing whole scene, seems they learned their lesson from last year where you could easily see on the edges all the failures this was heavily edited and repeated, I mean is it really surprising considering all CGI you see during whole ga…
>this was heavily edited and repeated
While I don't know whether this was indeed broadcast live, at least this recording is missing a section since as the YT comments point out at 1:25 the staffs appear out of nowhere.
Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
#6battery life measured in a handful of minutes too :-P
Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
#7Some 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 for their own motion otherwise?
I think when watching I saw one or two of the robots "judder" their feet a bit out of sync with others - this seems to imply they are capable of balancing their own motion a bit individually.
Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
#8Just submitted this as well. This is remarkable. Boston Dynamics has some catchup to do.
To be fair to BD, Atlas can lift 50 kg and a Unitree G1 can lift about 2 kg. An Atlas could literally pick up and throw a G1. They are very different robots with very different goals, so it should be no surprise that the G1 appears much more agile.
The H2 is what everyone is talking about now
some specs here: https://www.unitree.com/H2
claimed 3h battery life, can hold about 10% of its weight (7kg, with arms)
Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
#9Some 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.
Re: Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
#10Some 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…
It’s not a 1:1 human motion capture to servo translation. There is some work done to fix Center of gravity like you said and issues with friction and momentum.
The hard part with “autonomy” is interpretation of the environment and feeding that back into some control loop to accomplish a goal in real time. That is why most of these demos are basically recordings of movements, like choreography.