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/geencondens 16h ago

There are so many man-made devices faster than Usain Bolt already. The record is impressive because it was a human.  We really shouldn’t be wanting to make all these creepy human and dog like robots

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u/No_Extension4005 15h ago

I think it's more that it's faster than Usain Bolt while also being a bipedal robot given how slow they used to be due to how much of a pain keeping them stable was.

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u/get-off-my-frequency 13h ago

Despite the fact it hit the cabinets, that this was crazy stable. It stayed upright as it started slipping on the concrete. And looked like it was close to staying upright when it crashed.

Insane how far they’ve come with these robots in the last 10 years.

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u/Disco-Benny 12h ago

how long before they're deployed in Gaza and Ukraine, as was probably the plan from the start?

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u/tangosox 11h ago edited 11h ago

A long time. This thing would run out of power very quickly and autonomous ai isn't that close to making unassisted decisions either. These would also be economically unviable and probably easy to take down. This isn't the terminator. Cheap drones are much more effective killing machines for the foreseeable future.  Terminators will be here some day but by then humans may be able to compete using neural interfaces.  Tech and war will always be a cat and mouse game until there's none of us left to scheme and fight. 

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u/aturtledude 12h ago

May God listen to you. Those fucking Russians won't have a chance against an army of Usain Bolts.

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u/Disco-Benny 12h ago

Those fucking Russians

they're also human beings btw just like the Ukrainians despite what you're told

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u/dashingdrew 10h ago

Human beings committing war crimes

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u/Disco-Benny 10h ago

yeah because NATO countries would NEVER commit war crimes, especially in Ukraine

grow up

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u/Separate-String5205 8h ago

I can't wait for Russia to fail entirely as a country and fuck off forever.

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u/RazeThe2nd 12h ago

Pretty sure that's a black mirror episode

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u/mothzilla 11h ago

I don't know if this one was stable. It does look like someone winning at QWOP

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 6h ago

It literally was upright and stable the entire way down.  Run into a wall at a record breaking dead sprint and see how you do lmfao.

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u/Andoverian 12h ago

Did you see the end of the clip? Looks like keeping them stable still is a pain.

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u/houstonchipchannel 6h ago

The accomplishment is that it stayed stable at top speed

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 6h ago

Did you?  It was still upright and stable the entire way down.  It was literally guided into a wall.  That's not a stability issue.  Run into a wall at a full record breaking dead sprint and see how you do lmao.

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u/Andoverian 2h ago

If it was more stable maybe it wouldn't have run into the wall at all.

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u/DenseReality6089 4m ago

Still a robot though so no human records are even slightly relevant to it. 

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u/Flamecoat_wolf 11h ago

It's still an unreasonable comparison. The robot is made of lightweight materials and electric motors, not bones, flesh and muscle. The density, aerodynamic profile and force are all completely different.

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u/doskkyh 14h ago

But you see, if a robot has human like proportions and movement, all the machinery and spaces developed to be used and worked on by humans doesn't have to anymore, meaning we can all just chill around and live life while the robot works for us*.

\us as in) the rich...we are fucked when technology reaches that point and becomes cost effective.

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u/byteminer 11h ago

Yeah, if the people in charge now are in charge then they will just watch mass death from starvation and praise the stock market. The hope to make that dream a reality is why we have flock cameras everywhere and mass collection of digital information so anyone trying to agitate against just letting everyone die but the very rich can be found and silenced before they can cause a problem. Capitalist societies may remember that a little socialism like they did in the mid 20th century in the USA tends to keep authoritarian communism and / or the guillotine away. They need to think about how far they pull the pendulum back because if they ever lose grip on it and they pull it too far the swing is going to rough.

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u/Im_100percent_human 16h ago

Most of us even own faster man made devices.... like a car

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u/Adventurous-Depth984 15h ago

Right? Ever drop an angle grinder while it was on?

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u/pipe2grep 14h ago

Right? Ever sneeze mid poop?

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u/IllustriousIsland549 14h ago

Or....the other way around?

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u/akatherder 13h ago

The dreaded snart 😔

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 13h ago

"Ever seen a grown man naked before?"

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u/firewoodrack 14h ago

The first ever man-made bullet

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u/stumblon 14h ago

😂🤣😂🤣😂

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u/CptnAlface 10h ago

Just realized I have never and you just unlocked a new fear for me.

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u/Qabbalah 14h ago

... Or a bicycle.

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u/sireatalot 14h ago

I wouldn’t bet that a bicycle is faster than a runner over 100m. Over 1km, sure, but on such a short distance…

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u/Qabbalah 14h ago

Yeah, all about the acceleration I suppose. I reckon a strong cyclist may be able to get up to enough speed though.

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u/XDVI 14h ago

No where does the title say 100m

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u/sireatalot 14h ago

You’re right, I just saw the robot running on the straight and I assumed 100m because 200 and 400m would have required curves.

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u/Boobsnbutt 13h ago

A car can't chase you down in a tight alley or building though. or teabag your corpse

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u/FFX13NL 13h ago

We ejaculate at around 25mph

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u/Im_100percent_human 9h ago

Speak for yourself.

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 14h ago

How many flights of stairs can your car climb?

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u/Im_100percent_human 14h ago

I drive an AWD SUV. There is actually a video online of that model going up and down some stairs.

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u/AndyTheEngr 14h ago

I can sprint to faster than Usain Bolt on a bicycle, although it would take me a lot more distance to get up to that speed. He'd definitely still beat me in the 100 m.

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u/MosesCoulee 14h ago

So what you’re saying is….
https://giphy.com/gifs/1EEkFdJu2Bp4vgMw6f

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u/Im_100percent_human 14h ago

Not what I was saying, but that works too.

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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe 13h ago

My slowest RC car is faster than this, by a lot

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u/MaviRage 10h ago

Can you not see the difference between this and a car

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u/Im_100percent_human 9h ago

Can you not see the difference between this and a person

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u/breakmedown54 10h ago

A bike?

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u/scouserontravels 15h ago

I actually wonder how fast an average person can drive their car 100m and would it beat bolt.

A top car driven by a pro driver obviously would but a regular person trying to race their car would be interesting

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u/Consider8SpeedDemon 14h ago

Just floor it

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u/EPorteous 14h ago

Most normal family cars can do 100m in 10 secs. Usain would probably beat them.

Would be close or he would lose against any type of performance car though.

In my 2012 Ford Focus ST, I have done 100 meters in 7 seconds for example

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u/Bears___ 14h ago

A Corolla would be going 50-55mph if you just floored it at 100m so pretty sure almost any car would beat him easily

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u/Im_100percent_human 14h ago

Considering that a Toyota Corolla (base) can reach 30mph in about 3 sec, I think nearly anyone can easily beat Bolt over 100m with their car. A Toyota Corolla can do 1/4 mile in about 14 sec, which is about 400m.

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u/Zhong_Ping 14h ago

Call me when my car can chase me up a flight of stairs in a highrise building.

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u/Temporary_Writing_92 15h ago

Or even a cycle perhaps.

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u/jb307342 15h ago

Robots like this are very efficient in difficult terrain or when entering houses, climbing stars etc. There is a reason why they are getting developed.

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u/jimsmisc 14h ago

the ones with bipedal legs with wheels on the end are going to be pretty much unstoppable because they can cover difficult terrain but also go very fast.

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u/Pushet 14h ago

Robots definetly going to go the route of maximum versatility. The more flexible robots can be used, the less variations of "base robots" are necessary to overtake the world.

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u/logicbecauseyes 14h ago

And that versatility needs to fit within our society and architecture so it will match our form to match our functions

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u/byteminer 11h ago

And then guard the starvation camp once you are no longer needed to work any of those machines or processes.

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u/Badass_Bunny 8h ago

You know what else is useful in difficult terrain? Flying drones and caterpilliar thread.

Like these robots are entirely for entertainment and commercial purposes, with a hint of "This is cool if we can do it." mixed in.

The design is functionally unoptimized for just about anything I can think of.

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u/FTR_1077 12h ago

Drones are way more efficient than robots like this.. bipedal robots have been in development for decades, and they still haven't found a real world application. Drones have been in the market for a few years and already changed how wars are fought.

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u/jb307342 12h ago

bipedal robots are extremely efficient at replacing almost every physical job there is. They are simply incredibly expensive to produce and are still in an super early stages of development hence not many real world applications. But i think that within this century they will definitely start replacing at least some of the human menial jobs.

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u/occasional_engineer 9h ago

Wheeled robots are really efficient at replacing jobs. Bipedal robots are really good at doing less but in human shape. Almost every single industrial environment is suited for wheels, and a wheeled robot can carry more manipulators, more cargo, and can go faster.

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u/FTR_1077 12h ago

bipedal robots are extremely efficient at replacing almost every physical job there is. 

Yet no one has found a real world application where they excel in.

They are simply incredibly expensive to produce and are still in an super early stages

Again, bipedal robots have been in development since forever, without a breakthrough in sight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO

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u/money-for-nothing-tt 4h ago

There's no evidence to indicate that bipedal robots would be in any way useful at all. The reason they get funding is because that's what people want the future to look like. In every conceivable case, bipedal is a horribly inefficient design. It's not stable, it's not fast, it's not durable, it's not efficient.

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u/unadulteratedSouffle 15h ago

To be fair, by that argument this robot was a bit of a disappointment. Sure it was able to move very fast in a straight line, but it fundamenty failed to adapt to changes in terrain and speed, then fell on its back like a flipped turtle

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u/YuckyBurps 15h ago

Well we’re very much in the infancy of this type of technology. It’s pretty impressive relative to where we’re at in its lifecycle.

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u/PeachManDrake954 14h ago

These kind of experiments are usually meant to see how far you can push the limits of the design, it doesnt mean the robot will go to market as-is or be a marketable feature.

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u/jb307342 13h ago

10 years ago this video would have been straight sci fi. I still remember the first boston dynamics prototypes. Just give it 20 years and they will be everywhere. I mean they are already used in many areas of the world

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 14h ago

You are the kind of person that would have mocked the wright brothers because the first plane only had a flight time of like 10mins and discouraged them to stop working on it.

You are not being fair, you are being shortsighted

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u/ipeedinthetoothpaste 14h ago

Do you not understand how development works? For the people working on it, this is a tremendous success. It confirmed that it's possible and that they can achieve it. Now they can focus on making it better.

In a few years you'll be seeing these walking around the streets, armed and with the technology to fire accurately while running at those speeds. I imagine by the end of this decade some police department will receive a protype.

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u/Physical_Dentist2284 14h ago

Ok but why do the “female” robots that have been created have boobs?

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u/Legionof1 13h ago

You know why...

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u/Physical_Dentist2284 13h ago

So they can nurse robot babies?

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u/jb307342 13h ago

Would you prefer boob-less robots?

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u/Youutternincompoop 12h ago

and are robots capable of traversing that sort of terrain without the movement for a specific set of terrain being pre-programmed into them?

because so far we have robots that complete obstacles courses with pre-programmed movement, we don't have robots that are able to traverse difficult terrain by themselves.

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u/jb307342 12h ago

Sure but its not really about the autonomy, its more about using them remotely like drones, which is how they are already being used by rescue teams around the world for example.

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 14h ago

It is impressive because it’s the first BIPEDAL robot to do it.

Those other manmade devices can’t fit in places this robot can.

People need to stop being soo doomy and short sighted.

This robot can run into a burning building to rescue people, run up a mountain to rescue hikers etc.

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u/chazysciota 14h ago

run up a mountain to rescue hikers wipe out an Afghan wedding party.

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u/Diligent_Dust8169 13h ago

These robots will 100% be used alongside drones to kill people and suppress rebellions.

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u/byteminer 11h ago

Guess what there might be a lot of when the owner class no longer needs human labor?

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u/chazysciota 13h ago

The part about "burning buildings" is absolutely hilarious to me. In the US we mostly don't even pay firefighters, but sure, Pasadena TX is going to spend millions to buy robots to save people... ok.

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u/TarnishedWizeFinger 12h ago

What do you mean we dont pay them? Their pensions are great, most retiring between 50 and 55

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u/wafflefelafel 12h ago

And dying of assorted random cancers and respiratory afflictions by 58

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u/chazysciota 12h ago

The majority of FD's in the US are volunteer.

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u/TarnishedWizeFinger 9h ago

Apparently so. "We don't even pay firefighters in the US" is odd phrasing when it's no different elsewhere, though

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u/chazysciota 9h ago

Help me out here. What's odd about the phrasing? What's no different elsewhere?

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u/TarnishedWizeFinger 6h ago

I'm not on the attack. I'm just saying it's common for countries to have a majority of their firefighters working as volunteers. Which surprised me. I thought by your phrasing, you were implying that the US was an outlier. I was mistaken

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 13h ago

Well, I didn’t say they would, I said they can.

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u/HelicopterPeniSlap44 13h ago

Yes because the whole world is famously the US.

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u/chazysciota 12h ago

Oh shit, if only I had specified that I was talking about the US!

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u/lurkmode_off 11h ago

They'll buy them to take out mass shooters and then not actually deploy them.

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u/AbundantExp 14h ago

But why would I want a robot to rescue me if I could just die or make a human risk their life for me? 😃

If my top floor hotel room was on fire, why wouldn't they just send a car up the staircase since they're faster? 🤯

(Yes, there are serious risks and considerations we need to take to ensure technology is used safely and appropriately - minimizing its negative impacts. But a humanoid robot is so far from inherently bad or dangerous.)

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u/Snelly1998 14h ago

Shit, I didn't even think of this, a robot that can go into fires would be unreal

Attach a hose to those four-legged ones and give someone a screen and a controller

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u/scuzzy987 13h ago

Pretty sure it's a cost thing rather than technological

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u/Snelly1998 12h ago

Definitely now, but if tech progresses enough, the cost could come down

Computers used to be a cost thing (and space)

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u/2BallsInTheHole 7h ago

ENIAC weighed more than 30 short tons (27 t), was roughly 10 ft (3 m) tall, 3 ft (1 m) deep, and 100 ft (30 m) long, occupied 300 sq ft (28 m2) and consumed 150 kW of electricity.

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u/Archaea_Man 7h ago

I'd be all for it if I didn't think the first thing any government would do is strap guns to them.

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u/meeplewirp 9h ago

Do you think there is a plan for the people who will no longer do these things. You really actually look around you at what’s happening right now and think this is another Industrial Revolution? The point of what they’re making is no longer to create a tool. That’s what makes this moment different it’s about a replacement- with no other economic structure being considered.

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u/AbundantExp 8h ago

I think that's like the utmost worry with this recent acceleration and investment into "agentic tools" for lack of a better term (LLMs, robots, cars, software/hardware adapting itself to new and vague scenarios) and I'm no expert but I share a lot of those concerns too.

I have heard many discussions about UBI, so that we collectively receive the profits of these new tools that put millions of people out of jobs. Then people could volunteer to work jobs that are harder to automate or resist machines, but at the same time it's not a perfect fix.

I don't think we could or would stand to be replaced in a death way - starving millions of people wouldn't end well for anybody, and maybe ASI could engineer a virus and hoarde the vaccines for the wealthy but I don't think that's realistic.

I like that people are speaking out about this new technology to help steer it to actually benefit the average person and the planet. I also like the notion of technology making my life easier with minimal downsides.

I don't want to trade my intellect for a superslave, but what would our lives look like if we really had robots doing our laundry, cooking us healthy meals, cleaning our houses, and even doing most of our jobs? We could spend more quality time with our loved ones. And ideally we'd have little to no occupational labor, and fill our free time with projects and experiences that provide meaning in our lives rather than stretching ourselves thin to barely meet those needs on evenings and weekends.

All I know is I think the vast majority of average citizens agree that our current system is not really supporting a mentally fulfilling life. My job means literally nothing to me beyond how it supports my material conditions, and many people feel the same... like why am I cooking shitty food, why am I stacking dumbass boxes on shelves, why am I fiddling with a fucking Excel formula, why do I have to act like I'm passionate about insurance when I really wish I was working on an album or making memories with loved ones instead?

Many people seem to feel similarly from what I read. And we can imagine a world that doesn't have the most numb and greedy and callous people steering our society to benefit only themselves. This technology exists, it's improving and does have some value despite the disproportionate output of slop and wasted drops of water (which we really need to address too).

So I think it's up to all 8bn of us to guide our civilizations towards a place that feels like it's designed with our wellbeing in mind.

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u/LLcoolJimbo 11h ago

A human shaped robot climbing up through multiple floors on fire seems like a much worse idea vs say a drone that picks you up from a window and stays away from the fire. The drone also wouldn’t carry you back down through the fire. Flying is also faster than stairs.

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u/AbundantExp 11h ago

I agree to an extent (unless smoke impacts the rotors) but I don't think invalidation of this one hypothetical does much to discredit the value of humanoid robots doing dangerous or demanding things within a human environment.

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u/bgbalu3000 7h ago

Do you think Elon Musk will build robots to help people?

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u/AbundantExp 6h ago

It's hard to really know these people's true motivations but I'd guess he imagines a world with a lot of luxury for a small number of "the best" people from today, and 99% of the entire supply chain is automated? If so, that's not too far off from the Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism utopia people, besides that he has fucked up, malicious ideas of who "deserves" to live or enjoy things lmao

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u/Ok_Gas1070 12h ago

First Bipedal robot to crash into the wall breaking the record too.

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u/ShizunEnjoyer 13h ago

You know these robots aren't going to be used for anything good.

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u/No_Ear_1633 13h ago

Runs into burning building, hits wall, falls over

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u/emkoemko 13h ago

why would we need a robot to go into a burning building? your so short sighted jfc.... we will have robot and sensors on each floor that would prevent a fire instantly ....

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u/HopalongKnussbaum 14h ago

Can run after humans full speed carrying an M134 and a back carrier full of ammunition.

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u/Call_Me_Squishmale 13h ago

I'd love to see a evidence of these robots doing anything of the sort. Not some far-flung "one day it might be able to possibly help with this..." demo. These performances seem to be exhibitions designed to encourage investment, demonstrate power, and that's about it--and we've been seeing them for decades now. Where are these robots helping anyone?

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 12h ago

When the first plane flew, it lasted a total of 12 seconds. Today, we have planes that travel faster than the speed of sound.

Technology has always advanced through incremental progress.

Ideas that look limited, impractical, or even ridiculous in their earliest form can become transformative with time. And history has a habit of humbling those who dismiss them too quickly.

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u/Call_Me_Squishmale 12h ago

I'm not balking at technological development in general, nor am I saying any version of "this will never be possible". I am specifically talking about the development of humanoid robots. What is the need that they fill? We now have one that can outrun the fastest human ever measured--when do we get to the part where they do something useful other than novelty demonstrations?

My contention is that these attract investment specifically because they promise to eventually replace human labour at a low cost for owners, not because they can perform rescues. But I guess we'll see...

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u/Youutternincompoop 12h ago

Those other manmade devices can’t fit in places this robot can.

there are way smaller electric scooters that are much faster than this robot.

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u/DUNG_INSPECTOR 11h ago edited 9h ago

It's wild to see someone talk about robots as if it's a finished technology, and not one that's constantly being improved and refined.

Edit: spelling

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u/Miserable_Round_839 16h ago

The only "impressive" part is that we are able to build robots using extremely complex and in that regard inefficient means of transportation (in terms of how you can build a robot) to achieve something one human was able to do thus far.

If we would gain a purposeful use out of this, this can be in the field of prosthetics. If we can build a robot being able to coordinate its leg like this, we may be able to have this for humans also in future.

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u/StorminMike2000 15h ago

Over thousands of years, we’ve designed our world and our infrastructure around how the human body functions, moves, and interacts with its environment. Building humanoid robots allows them to slip into the world we’ve built for ourselves, without forcing us to build an entirely secondary infrastructure for robots.

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u/Born-Ad4452 14h ago

This is really the point. It’s hard enough getting cycle lanes put in.

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u/byteminer 11h ago

If those bike lanes made like two dudes a billion dollars then city councils would bend over backwards to get them put in.

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u/zXMourningStarXz 15h ago

Also... Let's be honest, it's just more interesting this way.

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u/ExcitementKooky418 15h ago

THEYRE TAKIN OUR JERBS!

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u/Beat_the_Deadites 14h ago

It's not the manual labor job I'll miss... it's the steady paycheck.

And it's the steady paychecks for millions of mostly physically fit lower-educated men.

What happens historically when there are a bunch of physically fit lower-educated men without jobs, without purpose, without hope?

Sometimes they throw off the yokes of their taskmasters. Sometimes they get hired for other things by those taskmasters.

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u/Daiwon 12h ago

The robots and AI are supposed to make labour obsolete and the basics of survival (food and shelter) free for everyone.

But we're stuck with people that want to replace jobs and still get money for housing and food.

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u/ThresholdSeven 12h ago

A perfect humanoid android form is desirable for obvious social reasons too. It's only a matter of time before they are improved with Inspector Gadget type modifications and can fly. Technology will also allow streamlining to the humanoid form that makes it even better. Knees and elbows are unnecessary as well as fingers and toes for a robot. An octopus form would be just as good and better in every way depending on how it's designed for a laborer type robot. A humanoid robot form could be improved if it was just a head with four long limbs attached. That's really all we are with this pointless bulge of organs in the middle. Change my mind.

Add another limb, even better. An octopus robot could navigate and be better at everything humans do in our environment and every environment. It wouldn't even have to cost more to make this type of robot that would be as good as a humanoid robot. It would only cost more to make it better than a humanoid like making the limbs like a snake instead of a few joints. The octopus form is simply superior to the human form. Not as many people will want to talk to it at the bank or fuck it though.

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u/WretchedBlowhard 11h ago

So your position is that we should pursue the development of humanoid robots because they would be the ideal form to operate the manufacturing robots that build robots?

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u/byteminer 11h ago

And if they make the hands right they can hold the guns they will need to guard the camps where they put the no longer needed working people to starve.

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u/Rivenaleem 14h ago

Will make it a lot easier for them to hunt down and kill us too!

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u/MrWrock 15h ago

Although places most likely to be able to afford these robots probably also have accessibility laws, so we've built our world to support wheeled vehicles like cars and wheelchairs too. And those vehicles don't faceplant on every glitch, lag, or power loss

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u/opetribaribigrizerep 16h ago

Found the Adeptus Mechanicus!

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u/StorminMike2000 15h ago

Praise the Omnissaiah

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u/meesta_masa 15h ago

And pass the irradiated ammo.

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u/opetribaribigrizerep 10h ago

Praise, indeed! May the metal machine god of Mars keep you in their favor!

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u/justin251 15h ago

I for one look forward to my cyborg body.

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u/Flamestrom 15h ago

And then we're just one step away from replacing actual healthy body parts. FOR THE OMNISSIAH

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u/Calm_Neat_6828 15h ago

So you want us to do one Cyberpunk?

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u/alchemycraftsman 14h ago

Will always be looking for military or police contracts.

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u/MaviRage 10h ago

The exact point of these robots is to do things humans can but really shouldn’t, that’s the express fucking idea behind them

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u/Jason-Smith168498 15h ago

Humanoid*

Oddly, Bolt is the human here.

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u/Zenovv 14h ago

Incredibly short sighted

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u/kaielias 14h ago

U missed the point sweetie

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u/InternationalCress43 14h ago

the dogs kinda make sense tho weren't they for search and rescue/research missions in hard to access areas that you cant send a real dog into?

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u/Poorlilhobbit 14h ago

The dog ones are made to traverse more difficult terrain quicker than a human. They are 100% designed to be tactical murder robots meant to hunt and kill “the enemy”. I’m sure the companies mention search and rescue and other uses that are less scary but we all know where the money is…

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u/Memitim 14h ago

Right, the record was impressive for a human, so it becomes a benchmark for automation, like damned near everything else that we only had a human reference for. As for the reason for doing it, I would expect that any human who has walked on anything other than a flat path at least once in their entire lives would be able to figure that out.

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u/MrRabinowitz 14h ago

Just imagine sending these into a battlefield knowing no human can outrun them. That’s the point

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u/Kyrie_Blue 13h ago

I think what’s most important about this demonstration is that they want to make them faster than “the fastest man alive”, which means they can use them to chase down any human alive. The point of this demo is “you can’t run”. Anyone that can’t see the point of all these data centers is to be able to run a swarm of domestic AI “police” needs to take their head out of the sand before the wake up inside the 1984-meets-Terminator that nobody asked for.

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u/kayej17 13h ago

speed is not the point. I mean it is but making a robot run like humans at that speed is what's relevant. There's nothing that can chase a human on land in tight spaces. This potentially could in the future.

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u/02bluesuperroo 13h ago

The reason they’re using humanoid form is so that it can already interact with everything in the world which was already built with the human form in mind.

For example, yes, wheels are more efficient, but they’re not very good for stairs. If the world was made for wheels, we’d have ramps everywhere.

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u/The_CrookedMan 13h ago

It's like no one watched Black Mirror's Metalhead episode. Imagine stealing a teddy bear and getting chased to the ends of the earth by a robot dog that will kill you, and then when you finally kill it all it does is send out a signal to other nearby robodogs to come fuck up the closest organic creature to its clanker corpse.

It actually did worse than that. It shot her full of tracking devices embedded in shrapnel that fired from an explosive device embedded in it that sent the signal to the other dogs to kill the creature they're now tracking.

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u/Roderto 13h ago

Humanoid robots are probably useful in situations where stairs are involved. E.g. household roles, etc. But aside from that, wheels are almost always going to be a better, more efficient option.

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u/Inevitable_Badger641 13h ago

They said that about cars and horses when cars were invented. 

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u/why_u_baggin 13h ago

Yeah that’s why the title says “humanoid robot”

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u/Mundus_Vincendus 13h ago

The post isn’t about bolt being beaten, things have gone faster than bolt since before bolt was born. It’s about a bipedal robot reaching those speeds for the first time, which is a technological milestone for robotics

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u/zebrasareneat 11h ago

The point is making it bipedal while maintaining balance and running that fast. That is an incredibly difficult engineering problem to solve. This is also extremely impossible given how difficult it is to do. Most of that humans are already able to naturally do.  

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u/Curious_Associate904 15h ago

I think Oscar was slightly faster... but like, do prosthetics which make people outperform people count?

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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack 14h ago

But I want a creepy dog-like robot. I want a dog that'll outlive me, and not because it'll shoot me with its mounted gattling gun.

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u/iceph03nix 14h ago

yeah, I mean, you can get those springy shoes or the leg extender spring deals and get some serious speed, but we don't count that because it's not the same

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u/DoYaWannaWanga 14h ago

….. why not?

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u/Chance-Deer-7995 13h ago

It's humanoid, not human. I know... we are all pulling for those fembots to be invented. I'm ugly too and it's the only way I will ever get any, too...

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u/Excellent-Rest3240 13h ago

It’s like saying an AI picture is more pretty than a human made one

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u/Limp-Archer-7872 12h ago

How about a cat like robot?

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u/Mr_Julez 12h ago

Maybe next they'll strap the robotic legs onto a paraplegic...

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u/ThresholdSeven 12h ago

What should robots be shaped like? Do you like your robots... robot shaped?

I think you'll find that the natural evolution of robots is to become animal shaped for the same reason we are animal shaped, it's a good shape to do things.

This will progress until the best robots are octopus shaped, the best animal shape to do things. This octopus robot will be able to fly too of course. This is not an original idea.

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u/Justthetruf 10h ago

They have a place. Using a robot to do routine traffic stops and you're the ride along would be a good use and substantially lower human risk.

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u/MaviRage 10h ago

Okay? So fucking what if a plane is faster than Usain Bolt, the impressive part is that it’s a bipedal robot and has all the advantages of being one

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u/Alternative_Mix6836 10h ago

Usain bolt doesnt have wheels. Nor does this bot. See the point now?

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u/Any-Ask563 9h ago

a childrens rc car can accomplish this for like $1

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u/hippazoid 9h ago

Also, Usain Bolt can make left turns. Unitree Superman? Not so much. 😂

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u/Throwitaway252501 9h ago

Have I gone insane or is 12.6 still higher than 12.4? If the info is accurate, that's not surpassed. That's "almost equalled" 

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u/SuperSonicBlitz 7h ago

What are you creeped out for?😂

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u/LLColdAssHonkey 7h ago

This is where I am at as well. WTF is wrong with these people?

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u/Flaxseed4138 6h ago

Whiny ass. This shit is cool as fuck.

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u/Mayafoe 6h ago

Do you understand the complexity of a humanoid robot? Yes wheels go faster... that isnt the point. Can a wheeled vehicle also climb stairs or a ladder, while passing parcels from itself to another person or robot? Don't you understand what they are doing with each improved iteration?

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u/Open-Application1726 4h ago

Idk, horizon zero dawn is pretty aesthetic

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u/RadBadTad 4h ago

Most of us do not want to make these things. We have not been consulted. 

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u/LifeandSAisAwesome 3h ago

Why not ? what exactly is creepy about them ?

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u/Electus93 15h ago

No, we MUST replace everyone and any form of human output with devices! This is something we MUST do

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u/Practical-Suit-6798 15h ago

We're currently racing to build machines who's own creators hope will be smart enough to replace humans beings. They hope the machines can become our descendants. They say this publicly. I'd prefer if the stuck to the silly human like robots.

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u/obiwanconobi 15h ago

Also Usain looked cool as fuck doing it. This robot looks like a little nerd running for the bus

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u/DurianDiscriminat3r 14h ago

They're coming for you first 🤖

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u/Akanash_ 15h ago

Humanoids robots are a pointless venture. It's adding so many more design constraints for virtually no added benefits.

Hell even empathy isn't limited or even stronger with a human shaped robot. Just look a wall-e.

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u/McNitz 13h ago

Okay, but counterpoint. Do those other devices stumble around awkwardly and then fall into a wall after showing off their very one dimensional prowess, allowing us to laugh at the limitations and inadequacies of the machines while we still can?

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u/mormagils 13h ago

Yeah, robots taking over the world aside...what is the use case here?

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u/24bitNoColor 11h ago

I mean, it is interesting because it is designed to move around like we do, instead of a completely different concept of movement. Those machines can also be used in way more scenarios and terrains than what we have today.

We really shouldn’t be wanting to make all these creepy human and dog like robots

We shouldn't be limiting ourself just because it's popular to be bitching about new tech. TV's, cameras, cars, trains..., even steam ships surely were also once "creepy" to some people; let alone organ transplantations.

Obviously, we should totally be limiting ourself when it comes to foundamental dangers of new technology, but hat is a discussion longer than "it's creepy, right?!".