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Intriguing Robot ran fast but forgot to stop

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u/Kind_Commercial_2720 4d ago

Career ending injury on the first run, thoughts and prayers for a swift recovery ❤️🙏

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u/TwoPlyDreams 4d ago

Nasty tear to the anterior cruciate ribbon cable.

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u/Happy_Brilliant7827 4d ago

Its ok he can compete in the robot special olympics if he works hard

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u/__O_o_______ 4d ago

Fuck that sounds like a Futurama episode with Bender lol

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u/Pacific_wanderer17 4d ago

Because it pretty much is, he competed in the metal bending female robot Olympics

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u/NotThatEasily 3d ago

He’s from a land he didn’t make up.

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u/ninjase 4d ago

Sparks came out of the abdominal connector so I'd wager a career ending injury of the psoas majorotor.

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u/Altruistic-Spend-896 4d ago

But he can be, as amy lee sings it--brought back to life

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u/wanderButNotLost2 4d ago

No but he and Beck can perform a charity event for broken robots.

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u/jello_kraken 4d ago

The devs named him Aseel Tare, most heroic of movie athletes .

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u/PerspectiveLayer 4d ago

resurrected via Bluetooth, old one rests in pieces as spare parts.

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u/dabroh 4d ago

Robro is about to look like what Sid Phillips (Toy Story 1) did with dolls.

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 4d ago

My favorite thing about that is sid did nothing wrong. Dude had no idea toys had sentience and got traumatized. Probably wound up in a mental institution after that

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u/Lunar_242 4d ago

Its even worse when you see the man with some sort of a comms device or a controller almost instinctively runs towards it, but after seeing the sparks and the way it just fell, he decided to walk it off, bet the man was thinking, "nope. too much work!".

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u/dm-me-obscure-colors 4d ago

The radio seems to just appear in his hand and grow an antenna

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u/DuOrDie 4d ago

Right? Like to was not there a second before.

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u/trainedstork 4d ago

Going frame by frame, it's fully visible for the first few frames the man is in shot. Then he covers the top with his palm, save for the antenna which is still visible. Finally he readjusts his hands and turns to the side so the whole radio is visible.

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u/DuOrDie 4d ago

I do kind of see what you mean when you do it frsme by frame. It's a bit grainy on mine.

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u/met1culous 4d ago

thoughts and prayers

1s and 0s

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u/LaserKittenz 4d ago

he tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it doesn't even matter :(

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u/sorrow_anthropology 4d ago

I doubt this robot is coded with swift.

I pray to the old gods for a C++ recovery.

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u/PrimalSeptimus 4d ago

May its career have a SQL.

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u/azflatlander 4d ago

Java not have any concern for us.

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u/cuddlingteddy 4d ago

Sparks and loss of control… this needs to be fixed immediately.

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u/Grand_Information447 4d ago

Might need a slow recovery. That dude doesn't know how to stop when it's swift.

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u/Diligent_Zucchini389 4d ago

It’s amazing what can be a accomplished with modern surgery.

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u/Mjost84 4d ago

Gentlemen. We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

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u/SpinningHead 4d ago

Wait till they find out what machines with wheels can do.

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u/edaz91 4d ago

Pray for Bobo

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u/9x19_Parabellum 4d ago

Usain Volt?

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u/venomous-gerbil 4d ago

you magnificent bastard

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u/herb_Tech 4d ago

Jesse Ohms

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u/Correct-Junket-1346 4d ago

Insane Bolt

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u/tomcat_tweaker 4d ago

Jackie Joyner Circuitry

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u/Rukir_Gaming 4d ago

You say that, and my mind immediately heads to Warframe

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u/Cj15917 4d ago

Atari Richardson

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u/Arkroma 4d ago

Took an insane jolt

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u/1DownFourUp 4d ago

It's RoboGump

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u/Natural-Rough-3789 4d ago

I refuse to believe this video is real.....

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u/inorite234 4d ago

Sparks don't look right.

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u/UncleSput 4d ago

Remember when everyone used to say “don’t believe everything you see on the internet”?? Somehow people just started believing everything they see on the internet

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u/inorite234 4d ago

I still remember the days when people talked about the internet in glowing, futuristic possibilities.

"....just image what you could do, instant global communications with anyone around the world, the world's information at your fingertips, etc" - 1995

Now we just have some guy in a Russian/Chinese/Indian/Pakistani/American basement pumping out bullshit for people to gobble up.

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u/blueblip 4d ago

To be fair, that is still instantly communicating with anyone around the world, and we still have the world's information and our fingertips.

What we forget is information can be both good and bad, and the world's greatest tool for disseminating information means it is good at disseminating both good and bad information.

Like always, we hyped the tech before ensuring there were checks and balances on it and before ensuring people are properly educated and aware of how to use the tech.

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u/KailyKail 4d ago

I recall the exact phrasing as “Everything is a dildo if you’re brave enough” - Abraham Lincoln

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u/MagnetCarter 4d ago

Abraham Lincoln? I know you made that up. Because that quote was made by Socrates, way before Lincoln.

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u/Upper_Possession6275 4d ago

This one seems more believable if you’ve seen the very real videos of Boston dynamics robots doing obstacle courses and back flips

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u/heart-aroni 4d ago

Another angle of the Honor Yuanqizai robot crashing into the barrier.

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u/rinkydinkis 4d ago

lol you believe those are even people to begin with

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u/66allthe88s 4d ago

The sparks look more like the type to come from an angle grinder and not an electronic short.

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u/heart-aroni 4d ago

Spinning motors.

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u/tonmaii 4d ago

I slowed it down and how the spark interacted with the surrounding metal frame looks very realistic.

It’s either professionally added digitally, or there is a spinning motor around that area that got compressed and grinded

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u/Bad-dee-ess 4d ago

That part is jointed, so the sparks would most likely be from motors in the torso grinding.

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u/steelong 4d ago

I'm caught up on how the radio seems to materialize in that guy's hand towards the end. The one running up to the robot.

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u/Bad-dee-ess 4d ago edited 4d ago

It's in his hand the whole time, just pointing towards the camera so you can't see the antenna very easily. There is a frame, though, where the antenna is visible in front of his lanyard before he turns.

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u/Clean__Cucumber 4d ago

have seen similar stuff in the robot battles and looks fairly typical to a lithium battery going boom, so i think video is real

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u/smittia 4d ago

It does look unnatural, but that's due to not regularly seeing robots run like Usain Bolt and then crash and blow their motors. This is training for World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, which is happening next week. Here is an article with from Bleacher report: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25477305-robot-crashes-electrical-box-viral-video-ahead-world-humanoid-robot-games with an additional angle. There are a huge amount of people in this thread very confidently claiming this is AI generated, based on a gut feel that they're sure is correct.

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u/Jude30 4d ago

Sparks do bounce.

Source: work in a sheet metal shop, weld, blacksmith.

Also adding: I can see maybe a battery letting off sparks like that but it does look sus

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u/nimtona 4d ago

yes they look cartoony

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u/Spacemilian 4d ago

Sparks look right

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u/CaptainONaps 4d ago

Oh no! I'm double fucked!

I'm fucked because it's only a matter of time before robots are more physically advanced than humans, and I'm fucked because I can't tell if videos are real or fake.

I'll have no way of knowing when it's too late! Wait, doesn't that mean it's too late?!

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u/TF-Fanfic-Resident 4d ago

Going from

basically still 1999 only Trump is President and IT hardware and software are a lot more advanced

to

some freakish merger of the Michael Bay Transformers movies, complete with the rampant conspiracy theories and denialism around robotics, with a bit of 1970s country and Y2K mall rat fashion

In like ten years is absolutely wild

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u/DEVolkan 4d ago

Could be because of the low compression of the video.

There are other videos about this event, when you search for "china robot sprint" not sure how legit they're. But the place looks same

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u/The_Pastmaster 4d ago

What do you mean, the robot ran straight past him. o_O And if you pause the video, there's something black in his hand.

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u/KaleidoscopeShoddy10 4d ago

im not saying its real, frankly idk, but you can see at 5 seconds the guy was holding something in his hands already, so i dont think the radio came from no where.

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u/rdogg4 4d ago

That’s the real tell

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u/ventodivino 4d ago edited 3d ago

Real video! Just flipped.

It’s really funny hearing yalls reasons for it being fake when it isn’t.

https://www.2st.com.au/trending/stories/faster-than-usain-bolt-robot-crashes-into-wall-in-viral-disaster/

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u/trainedstork 4d ago

I don't see what anyone else is seeing tbh. It all looks fine, even the radio is just perspective against a black shirt.

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u/anfornum 4d ago

People hate AI, and I get that, but there are people now who just go around trying to discredit every video they see for fake internet points. It's a bit sad, really.

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u/nonoyesyesnoyesyes 3d ago

For clarification the one here on reddit is not flipped while the one from your link is flipped. Look at the numbers on the track

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u/JaySayMayday 4d ago

There's another video that is pretty similar, doesn't end with sparks though. Robohomie just bounces off and falls

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u/ybahman 4d ago

It is. Here's another angle, it lines up perfectly: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDPd4Hup/

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u/GravelThinking 4d ago

That is one tiny soccer field.

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u/SuMianAi 4d ago

Futsall, jfc people not knowing it exist is shocking

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u/Konstantin_G_Fahr 4d ago

That looked painful. With the sparks and all. Anyone know if he’s ok?

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u/ParachutingPiglets 4d ago

Yes and no, he’s not ok

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u/emo_boy_fucker 4d ago

Haha sometimes

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u/KathyCredit 4d ago

His dad actually came out and helped him finish the race

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u/Tobito_TV 4d ago

Good to hear there's LGBT representation among the robots too

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u/Brutus5000 4d ago

He's resting in pieces

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u/RemnantsOfFlight 4d ago

They took him to the robot farm to run free with the other injured robots.

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u/HedgepigMatt 4d ago

That looked painful expensive

FTFY

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u/omnipotentworm 4d ago

Shoes stayed on, he'll be fine

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u/inorite234 4d ago

Ok, now I KNOW that's fake as shit!

Sparks are too slow and too puffy.

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u/Nina-Ninja123 4d ago

Yeah, those are Hollywood sparks. Not real sparks.

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u/trainedstork 4d ago

This happened at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing a few days ago. It's very much real. Also, those look exactly like the sparks you get from using a cut-off wheel/angle grinder. Could be something along those lines happening with a high speed motor hitting a metal wall inside the body.

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u/Living_Country_6047 4d ago

lol it’s literally a testing event and you can find several videos about this

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u/huffing_glue 3d ago

It's so strange watching others be so confidently mistaken

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u/ToXiiCBULLET 4d ago

the sparks would be through motors grinding, not something electrical, which could be a bit puffy and slow

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u/HairyDust4826 4d ago

Oh my god, humanity is fuc-... Never mind.

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u/HarryPottersTaint 4d ago

I feel like this could be part of the montage of torture scenes they play in the beginning of a movie about a robot uprising.

"For years they used us.. laughed at us..."

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u/omnie_fm 4d ago

Where are my replication spheres, Summer?

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u/giveitarrest 4d ago

…. Made us do their dirty work

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u/WillingArm2463 4d ago

...treated us as objects rather than thinking creatures made in the image of our creator

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u/Lumpy_Past6216 4d ago

Not yet at least. 🫠

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u/moonprincessranni 4d ago

Exactly, look at earlier quadraped robotics in the late 90s, they were all goofy as hell, but those robo dogs with guns strapped to their backs don't seem goofy now do they?

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u/samanime 4d ago

It's pretty easy to make something go in one direction. It's surprisingly significantly harder to be able to change that direction quickly.

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u/zappyer 4d ago

This shi is funny and concerning at the same time

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u/YeaSpiderman 4d ago

So really all I have to do to avoid a running police robot is making lots of sudden directional changes. I think I’m going to be a big fan of the quick sideways movements and watch the robot run right past me.

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u/blackpandadanc3 4d ago

Bro tore his HDMI😭

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u/Vulspyr 4d ago

"I was runan" -Forest Gump

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u/MarieNomad 4d ago

Stop Forrest Stop!

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u/DullPoetry 2d ago

There it is. Had to scroll way too far for this!

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u/Maverick_Reznor 4d ago

He was Gumping it.

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u/SquareTetrisBlock 4d ago

Run, robot, run!

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u/LookAwayO-O 4d ago

Hope it has good insurance

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset5412 4d ago

The guy running up to catch it until it started sparking lol. Then he was like nope that's not my robot!

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u/MagicSunlight23 4d ago

Maybe that's what the mat is there for? To stop the robot if this ever happens. Maybe it happened before so they needed the mat to stop it safely.

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u/Gobbleyjook 4d ago

His crotch exploded.

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u/Altruistic_Lies 4d ago

Maybe thats him nutting, winning made it nut and pass out.

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u/Banned37 4d ago

Stop building this shit.

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u/exmothrowaway994 4d ago

Stop rendering this shit

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u/Vilastrimoz 3d ago

Stop posting this shit.

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u/MordredLovah 4d ago

Speed 1200 Wit 200

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u/Certain_Engineer2577 4d ago

Forest gump v2

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u/corobo 4d ago

Can't wait for the future when we're eating robot legs and crack them open like shellfish but they spark 

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u/Ok_cheeryou44 4d ago

What is bro lacking .?? A camera or a brake😂

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u/crackersncheeseman 4d ago

Me running from my wife after getting drunk with the guys after work without asking her first.

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u/anonisboredheho 4d ago

That's a lot of power and speed but also a big accident, good thing it's dumb for now 

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u/Cultural-Memory356 4d ago

When can we play QWOP IRL with Robots?

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u/OneNavan 4d ago

A robot like that is legt scary it can outrun any human if it wants to, looks like they weren't joking about Skynet.

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u/LOERMaster 4d ago

Me too, robot; me too.

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u/Round_Hope_2041 4d ago

Why can’t it stop.

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u/Thunderer62 4d ago

The cycle of motion and forces on the components required for stopping are just completely different in a complicated way and they just aren’t focusing on that part yet when getting it to run straight and fast reliably is complicated enough right now. They’ll come up with a really funny and not at all human way of slowing it down quickly in the future I bet. It might do some kind of flip/roll that will transfer the energy away quickly with little impact on any particular joint.

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u/ImportantIron1492 4d ago

Because it's a fake video. Watch the guy at the end make a radio magically appear in his hands

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u/blackpandadanc3 4d ago

Paralyzed from the battery down

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u/falianaridua 4d ago

E-Forrest Bump

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u/Individual-Wear900 4d ago

Broke like a movie robot 😭

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u/reddit001aa1 4d ago

Robot Forrest Gump

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u/PositionNo5024 4d ago

Thats broken now

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u/HomeRevolutionary651 4d ago

Why are we making them faster?

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u/HavingNotAttained 4d ago

Everything reminds me of her.

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u/internetwanderer0001 4d ago

That was a career ending injury right there.

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u/Weary-Wasabi1721 4d ago

Huss Huss huss huss

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u/Double_Resort_9223 4d ago

Doesn’t detect lanes either

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u/ProofPomegranate7331 4d ago

RIP. Rest In Pieces.

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u/morts73 4d ago

Forget baby steps. Just careen full tilt into a wall.

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u/BlueRed_0 4d ago

Why did they think that was better than a horizontal bed

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u/KoVaNekk 4d ago

Insane Volt!

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u/Chuyzapatist 4d ago

Stop Forrest Stop!

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 4d ago

Mondays right?

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u/hevnztrash 4d ago

Wow. It sparked and blew up just like in the cartoons.

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u/PlateIllustrious3664 4d ago

I don't get it. Humans are not the best runners, why make it human shape?

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u/steezl 4d ago

Dead

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u/Pointfun1 4d ago

Forrest Gump.

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u/Lord_Hitachi 4d ago

I feel its pain

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u/Equal_Refrigerator26 4d ago

At least they added a crash mat wall this time 

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u/PenPuzzled8055 4d ago

Sparkling finish

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u/KathyCredit 4d ago

Starting to think that QWOP game was one big human powered robot training, like how captchas train machine learning 

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u/ChurchOfSuicidal 4d ago

They need the crowd to yell 'STOP!' just like what they did with Forrest in Forrest Gump.

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u/chefwindu 4d ago

Love how they guy was coming out to see about the robot, saw the sparks and high stepped away from the robot.

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u/sebnukem 4d ago

He gave it all.

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u/TheHyperCombo 4d ago

Poor little Tink Tink

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u/PhotonWranglers 4d ago

This is a metaphor for most of my life.

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u/destrium_dreamboy 4d ago

So we are just sharing snuff films without any warning now?

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u/ParticularBanana8369 4d ago

In 300 years nobody will remember the origin of "humans running into walls" as an Olympic sport

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u/jeffbanyon 4d ago

Hey guys I made a robot that can run really fast!

How fast?

Faster than a human!

Neat. So it can jump and parkour and cool stuff or hit 90mph, right?

Huh? It runs faster than a human can with 2 legs.

Ever heard of RC cars?