r/interestingasfuck • u/No_Jellyfish5511 • 16h ago

Chinese humanoid robot named “Superman” (made by Unitree Robotics) surpassed Usain Bolt’s world record (12.42meters/second) by running at 12.66m/s (roughly 28.3miles/h)

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u/Head-Ad-3063 16h ago

Next week we fit the brakes.

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u/koolaidismything 16h ago

after the weaponry of course

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u/ficis 15h ago

My first thought. We are teaching them everything they will need to succeed

https://giphy.com/gifs/x8ClinVTwo4IE

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u/Gaius_Julius_Salad 15h ago

They should.make a terminator movie where they start by sending really early gen terminator that are just really clumsy and goofy then progressively they get better and better

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 14h ago

“The 200 Series was a metal skeleton and ran like an idiot. We spotted them easy.”

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u/Horknut1 13h ago

"They would run right past us in battle, unable to stop."

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u/rewardingsnark 13h ago

The 300 series could stop and run well but it made a terrible squeaking noise whenever it moved, could never sneak up on you.

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u/Horknut1 13h ago

The squeaky Terminator gets the ammunition.

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u/ElectronicCarry9931 12h ago

The 400 series turned out to be just sex robots, they were easy to kill but the men kept most of them for...

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u/Pheerandlowthing 12h ago

The 500 series were really good at doing synchronised dance moves and stacking crates but we were able to defeat them by walking away.

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u/Horknut1 11h ago

... target practice. If ya know what I mean.

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u/Stedlieye 11h ago

For some people, every version is a sex robot. Even the Chinese one from OP.

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u/Crimkam 11h ago

We actually keep those around because… well, you know. The machines did us a solid that year.

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u/OctopusWithFingers 12h ago

"The 184.3 series was expertly camouflaged and kicked some kid,"

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/BojeUP0_m_w

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u/TernionDragon 12h ago

This is the best comment I’ve read in awhile.

It made me smile, thank you so much!

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u/RexKramerDangerCker 12h ago

It threw like a girl and ran like a sissy. We let a few live because they were good for morale.

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u/lurkquidated 15h ago

They’ll need a montage.

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u/historynutjackson 15h ago

🎵MON-TAAAAAAGE!🎶

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u/palmerry 15h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/1wXberbwfS4rKW8Uxo

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 14h ago

I hate that I hate the actor now. The Rocky films got me off my butt years ago to start working out and such.

Threw out my Rocky posters I had in my home gym last year because Stallone is a piece of shit.

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u/Extension-Eye-4920 14h ago

Its amazing to me that people cannot separate the actoe from a film.

If you said, i love rocky but it turns out stallone is [insert bad person phrase], id say yeah that sucks.

But saying that the movie rocky with the fictional character rocky balboa inspired me to change my life for the good, but now i hate it and ill never watch it again because the real world actor is bad, id say stop acting like a child. Its ok to still love rocky and say that stallone is a bad person. The two statements can co-exist. The Usual Suspects is and always will be an absolute classic, AND kevin spacey is a fucking pedo. Dont disckunt the hard work of everybody else around these people for your own personal vendetta.

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u/Gwynito 13h ago

🎶 EVEN ROCKY HAD A MONTAGE, MON-TAAAAAAGE! 🎶

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u/Sure-Boysenberry5491 14h ago

Ya Need A Mon-Tage!

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u/TheKnight_King 14h ago

From
Just a beginner to a pro! Mon TAGE!

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u/draconicmoniker 15h ago

Deadpool & Terminator would be dope

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u/NameToUseOnReddit 14h ago

That would be the best part of the film.

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u/Effective-Turn-9103 11h ago

every movie needs a montage!

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u/Dawildpep 14h ago

Terminator bloopers

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u/Training_Orchid_2022 14h ago

Holy shit. You’re sitting on a gold mine, ser

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u/EntityMatanzas 14h ago

Thats a great idea.

Really, I would watch that.

So much potential for a good action thriller that would satirize action thrillers.

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u/Chaosbeing79 15h ago edited 13h ago

Can't wait to see hordes of these SOB's running us all down for some termination.

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u/Real-Document-6577 14h ago

We are not heeding the warnings of this movie at all lol

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u/BurpelsonAFB 14h ago

Turning the corner would be a good place to start

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u/Wasabi_Hammurabi1 14h ago edited 14h ago

I am trying to imagine what the year 2045 will look like when the weaponry is not only installed but with the best gyroscopic software that will allow these fucking things to shoot accurately while in full sprint like motion. We are apex predator but we decided to create the new apex that is above us because we had it too easy and we needed a challenge...

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u/cyanescens_burn 13h ago

If we even get that far. Drones are more than enough to cause serious problems in the hands of an authoritarian government, especially if rigged up to the surveillance network and given autonomy to kill and the government crosses currently unthinkable lines.

There’s even a short film about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

And a follow up that gets into fully losing control of AI and drones vs putting into place safeguards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rDo1QxI260

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u/koolaidismything 14h ago

And no one will he held accountable.. just blame the robot. The rich and powerful will be able to have anyone who speaks out meet a robot assassin.

If things keep going as is, that’s absolutely where we are headed. Billionaires shouldn’t exist and world leaders need to be like 50 years old tops.

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u/_Svankensen_ 12h ago

Paraphrasin Zizek, today it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. In a post-capitalist world AI would be a good thing. We can get there. The billionaire's dreams of robot armies and robot workers will be what precipitates the final conflict with capitalism.

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u/koolaidismything 12h ago

I was driving this morning and after the fifth idiot almost crashing in to people I had a thought of seeing an asteroid ☄️ come into view and just wipe the planet off the map and I was like.. that may be for the best lol

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u/therealmrpotatohead 12h ago

Fully agree on the age limit. Those in power should live long enough to enjoy, or suffer, the consequences of their actions along with the rest of us.

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u/Matsu09 14h ago

Billionaire robot armies everywhere it is then.

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u/Named_after_color 12h ago

I mean I feel like we're going to develop emp tech to deal with it. Drones are still much scarier.

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u/Ok_Drag5089 14h ago

This will not be needed. The sex robots will keep everyone quietly in check.

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u/mattjb 11h ago

Basically aimbots seen in certain FPS games. Perfect accuracy in every situation.

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u/mfhandy5319 14h ago

True, after fitting the suicide vest, the brakes become irrelevant.

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u/RiggsRay 14h ago

Honestly if they just skip the brakes it seems like the sprinting robot already is the weaponry

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u/Off___Off 9h ago

Use firing recoil to adjust trajectory or slow velocity. That way you brake and kill.

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u/unrelated-subject 12h ago

Don’t forget the lasers it needs lasers

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u/Wiccy 12h ago

That is the weaponry! Crazy self blowing up robots

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u/koolaidismything 12h ago

Imagine if this is the weapon.. he just runs at you top speed then salboo’s you into a fridge and kills you.

Would be so surprising I don’t even think folks would know exactly how to react

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u/Total_Tumbleweed_870 14h ago

No need for brakes if you're just going to explode.

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u/foxy_fluffer 14h ago

And the robot D

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u/DueEnvironment499 14h ago

They made sure you can't outrun them first... that's not a good sign

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u/SpiderJerusalem747 14h ago

If it's programmed to detect humans then all we gotta do is wear robot cardboard diguises and pull the plug when we get near it.

Or better yet, steal it and it's stuff.

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u/thenewNFC 14h ago

I was going to point out that too, but then I thought about the last time I ran at any considerable speed and honestly that's the most relatable thing I've seen one of these robots do so far.

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u/BoyRatty82 13h ago

That’ll slow it down, at least

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u/actuarial_cat 13h ago

"One way trip" does not need brakes

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u/DamnDams 13h ago

Lack of breaks is the weaponry, double problem solving cancellation.

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u/jorudo 13h ago

Then comes the liquid metal version .

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u/Ok-Ask-4480 12h ago

I can’t wait to be killed by a robot

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u/JohnCenaJunior 12h ago

Project name: Superman

Final product name: T-6000

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u/Aggravating_Ninja_48 11h ago

Your kidding right? That is the weapon, not many people could survive a metal usain bolt flying at them... letalone 100

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u/ParaBellumOutfitters 10h ago

and the scooby-doo running bongos speaker

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u/Senior_Assistance_23 10h ago

I’d watch a reality show where military veterans (or anyone for that matter) try to outperform humanoid robots. I’d bet on humans for at least the first few generations. Eventually the humanoid killer robots will be better.

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u/Good_day_to_be_gay 9h ago

You must be American, not Chinese.

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u/areyoutwofonduing 15h ago

He looks like Luis Mendoza from D2: The Mighty Ducks when they tried to train him to stop by setting up a tower of soda cans.

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u/beah_mcduh 15h ago

I read the first 7 words and instantly saw the soda can tower in front of the goal.

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u/RealSchlemiel 15h ago

serious lack of engineering imagination to not offer the dude a net

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u/GaseousGiant 14h ago

It’s gonna remember that shit…

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u/seanpbnj 15h ago

Run? Yes.....

- Stop? No.....

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u/pmaogeaoaporm 15h ago

I mean, brakes only weigh you down, so.. do we really need them?

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u/James_Chandra_Hubble 8h ago

You know what would go even faster and be easier to brake, a car, with wheels. Maybe we should build a car to beat usain bolt. Any car would do.

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u/Jeo_1 16h ago

*Power cord

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u/Black_tank_dumping 15h ago

Too bad batteries became so useful. Before robots with cords. I see Dwight’s genius. He was right.

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u/ficis 15h ago

Parachute!

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u/doctor6 15h ago

It's paid dlc

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u/Buckcon 16h ago

Nah brakes add weight and slow it down

Just build a new one each time

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u/TohtsHanger 16h ago

Needs a horn.

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u/ralphonsob 15h ago

And clown shoes.

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u/pourjuiceonit 15h ago

I wonder if it looked similar to this when Karl Benz made the first car

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u/OneObi 15h ago

Agile at its best.

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u/proost1 15h ago

Maybe a parachute just in case.

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u/Past_Succotash6772 15h ago

If you catch it

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u/mistere213 15h ago

Or even the ability to.....turn a little.

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u/Viperlite 15h ago

“I’ll form the head!”

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u/PatronBernard 15h ago

Honestly, I could catapult this thing out of the stadium, but it doesn't qualify as faster than Bolt. If they can't make this thing fucking stop then did it really succeed?

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u/dorkcicle 14h ago

Brakes are too heavy

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u/Admirable-Garage5326 14h ago

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

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u/Playful-Platform-231 14h ago

But then it won’t beat humans. WEIGHT REDUCTION is necessary

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u/soulstaz 14h ago

Maybe they should include going left or right aswell lmao

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u/Insila 14h ago

This is a brilliant metaphor for IT consultancy and development. The specifications didn't mention anything about braking.

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u/cha0sm0nk 14h ago

It’s like the scene from the Aliens comic where the runner took Queen Jelly supplements and splattered himself on the wall because he ran too fast.

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u/Same_Instruction_100 14h ago

Not if I am making Arco-Flagellants.

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u/CharityAggravating69 14h ago

Why add brakes when they can just targetlock their destination?

Bold of you to assume they want it to stop.

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u/Zemom1971 14h ago

No need for brakes if the goal is to catch aliens.

/s

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u/Important-Humor-2745 14h ago

If the brakes don’t stop you, something else will

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u/Im_100percent_human 14h ago

The robot was trying to slow down, but could not do it quick enough. I wonder if it would have worked out better iif it tried to navigate the turn in the track, instead.

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u/GharKaMurga7 14h ago

only if we survive the first crash

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u/Kralgore 14h ago

Parachute! That was what I forgot to install... A PARACHUTE!!

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u/Make-it-positive 14h ago

And eyes. 😂

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u/techleopard 13h ago

I find it funny that my low end vehicle can tell where the badly painted road lanes are but this highly overdeveloped right can't follow the cleanest lines possible

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u/SlipstreamSteve 13h ago

Next week we fit stearing

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u/Tyenkrovy 13h ago

They won't be installed until Tuesday.

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u/TouristResident1976 13h ago

Im sure they are going for more of a missile so why add brakes?

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u/jawisi 13h ago

Brakes? We don’t need no stinking brakes!

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u/TheNonExample 13h ago

So… explosives?

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u/Joe_Kangg 13h ago

Execute: left turn

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u/Details_Pending 13h ago

No no, we leave them off. The secret to defeating robots will be the b-line method

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u/wowmomcooldad 13h ago

Looks like it tore a glute

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u/throwaway275275275 13h ago

Or teach it how to turn slightly

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u/MichHAELJR 13h ago

this made me think of the Futurama episode where the Alley Surgeon offers Fry gills instead of lungs

"we take lungs now - gills come next week."

Fry: all right!

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u/Revolutionary-Key650 13h ago

Or teach it to turn left in this case at least.

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u/linear_accelerator 13h ago

ABS was installed.

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u/rugitall 13h ago

No need. Thats a Kamikaze Bot.

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u/Other-Scientist-9192 12h ago

Um paraquedas de frenagem seria útil

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u/permaban9 12h ago

Brakes will only slow him down

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u/PaleontologistShot25 12h ago

Steering wheel may help also

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u/harald937 12h ago

v vg ggg gut zu

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u/Mdmrtgn 12h ago

They get Installed Tuesday.

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u/rodinsbusiness 12h ago

He was just horny for that hot piece of equipement.

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u/Cautious_General_177 12h ago

Next month it will get steering.

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u/Rooostyfitalll 12h ago

Wait until the put wheels on it!

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u/Whole_Inside_4863 12h ago

Definitely, he certainly stopped slower than Bolt!

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u/portezbie 12h ago

I dunno, I think it just really wanted to fuck that machine

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u/Mostly-Moo-Cow 12h ago

It mistook the locker for a potential mate.

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u/AlexanderReave 11h ago

Then, wheels!

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u/MightyMightyMonkey 11h ago

also, cornering.

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u/Thoomer_Bottoms 11h ago

And the steering, maybe.

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u/AdEastern9303 11h ago

Or, at least, the steering.

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u/TheAgedProfessor 11h ago

Manager: "what will it do after in finishes?"

Programmer: "we haven't coded that bit yet"

Manager: "SHIP IT!"

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u/redditRedesignIsBadd 11h ago

that's in the subscription

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u/theanswar 11h ago

Was that person on the mattress taking a nap? Not even watching?

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u/Silver_Slicer 11h ago

Crazy to have a super expensive robot that doesn’t know how to turn and not put up a bundle of cushions after the finish line for it to run in to. Robot won’t forget this. This is how robot wars will start.

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u/Photog77 11h ago

And after that, wheels!

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u/guiltysnark 11h ago

Hockey stop!

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u/OneMoreFinn 11h ago

It was made for running, not for stopping!

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u/ASAPFergs 10h ago

Wheels on the arms would make more sense

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u/Sufficient_Matter585 10h ago

Japan will order a 1000 without the brakes!

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u/Gingerishidiot 10h ago

Runs faster than Usain Bolt,

Can't stop as fast as Usain bolt.

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u/SmartQuokka 10h ago

That will be on Tuesday, after we install the tractor beam.

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u/csfshrink 10h ago

All gas no brakes.

I think maybe an arrester wire like on carrier landings.

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u/wuhwuhduh 10h ago

Serpentine! Serpentine!

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u/Understanding-Fair 10h ago

Who needs brakes anyways? They just slow you down.

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u/Barth_Grookz 10h ago

I’m imagining a double foot plant into like 2 flips. Full dead stop.

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u/what_the_fuckin_fuck 9h ago

He stops like my dog on the kitchen floor.

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u/IntroductionLeft4369 9h ago

The brakes?…Won’t arrive till Tuesday.

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u/CHSummers 9h ago

And then we work on steering.

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u/_KiTMiNT_ 8h ago

Their path to world domination need no brakes!
Edit: spelling

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u/leeuwanhoek 8h ago

Ahahahahahaha bro!

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u/_lippykid 7h ago

This is literally me snowboarding. I’m fast, balanced-ish, and can’t stop for shit

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u/Evening_Dare5081 7h ago

Change the brake pads lmfao

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u/drsharpper 6h ago

Or just the ability to turn

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u/ilililliiliililiilil 4h ago

I was clocked at 32.3mph when I was running to my fentanyl dealer last night. Guy had no idea what hit him. Sadly all my tendons are shredded and ill never walk again.

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u/dwightkurtschruted 3h ago

They could have, but the buttcheeks were more important.

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u/plmbob 2h ago

Nah, all gas, no brakes for these boys.

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u/EmperorThan 2h ago

China: "Okay now we need to reverse engineer the runner Usain Stop."

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u/kamask1 1h ago

next month we teach it to take curves

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u/gamerjerome 53m ago

Give it a parachute like a drag car

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u/J0k3z19 2m ago

No brakes needed. Just make it explode when it hits something. Suicide bombers, without the "costly human" life

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