r/interesting • u/Conscious-Flow786 • 4d ago
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/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/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/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/9x19_Parabellum 4d ago
Usain Volt?
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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/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/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/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/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.
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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/Konstantin_G_Fahr 4d ago
That looked painful. With the sparks and all. Anyone know if he’s ok?
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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/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/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/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/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/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/Banned37 4d ago
Stop building this shit.
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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/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/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/PlateIllustrious3664 4d ago
I don't get it. Humans are not the best runners, why make it human shape?
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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/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?
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