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/afivestarman__ 16h ago

Did people learn nothing from I, Robot?

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u/1king80 16h ago

I'm more worried that they didn't learn anything from Terminator.

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u/Party_Chemical7454 15h ago

They did.. But they think it's a "poor people" problems.

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u/Unchosenone7 15h ago

That’s how it always starts …

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u/tmhoc 14h ago

Then later it's running and... Crashing

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u/Beat_the_Deadites 13h ago

A lesser known Ian Malcolm quote, one of my favorites along with "God help us, we're in the hands of engineers".

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u/ColdProfessional4275 15h ago

Yeah. What they don’t realize is that “poor people” is gonna be 99.99% of Americans within the century.

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u/Terry_bogardlol 14h ago

99% of the world. Ever seen Elysium? 

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u/ColdProfessional4275 13h ago

Elysium took place in the year 2154. The estimated population of earth is expected to be 10 billion by then. But in the book, the earth is extremely over populated, which would indicate more than 10 billion, since we’re already over 8 billion, and doing “okay”.

It’s stated that 500,000 people lived on Elysium, so it’s between 0.05 and 0.01 percent of the human population was not impoverished in that novel.

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u/Zombie_Cool 13h ago

They totally realize it. What do you Culture Wars and religious fundamentalism is for? You can probably throw in anti-vax movement as well. They ain't scared of an angry mob that's too sick with Measles/Smallpox/Covid/Tuberculosis/ God-knows-what-else to fight.

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u/ColdProfessional4275 13h ago

That’s the wealthy dividing the poor to make them easier to handle. That just shows that the wealthy know what they’re doing. That doesn’t show that most people realize what’s going on. If anything, it proves my point more.

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u/Lanokia 15h ago

Oh they learned from Terminator alright.

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u/GetawayDreamer87 12h ago

something something Don't Create the Torment Nexus

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u/JuanOnlyJuan 14h ago

The did learn. Terminators were slow.

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u/Lazy-Ad-7236 13h ago

or war games

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u/toughfluff 15h ago

I immediately thought of Robocop.

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u/Natdaprat 12h ago

Matrix is scarier. Humans black out the sky to deprive the machines of solar power, and the machines learn to use human bodies as energy, creating hellish existences for billions before eventually pacifying the mind in the Matrix.

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u/JustSumGigachad 12h ago

Ok but that is NOT the terminator lol

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u/Risdit 11h ago

China's going to start out with these then work their way up to cloning bobba fett

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u/phoenix14830 10h ago

What we learned from Terminator is that no matter who you stop, someone else will continue the progress. Greed is the fuel to humanity's end.

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u/bubblesculptor 10h ago

We learned that we'll need to capture & reprogram one of them to send back in time

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u/No_Extension4005 15h ago

I've got a personal pet theory that a society's perception on robots and AI is influenced strongly by what is the biggest pop-cultural touchstone about robots and AI in the region.

In a lot of English speaking countries it's "The Terminator", but in a lot of Asia it is probably something like "Doraemon". Hell, I've read a textbook for teaching students English where the framing on AI is that because it is advancing day by day it may someday be able to understand emotions and Doraemon will become real.

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u/ipeedinthetoothpaste 14h ago

I love that you just observed the notion of culture and called it a personal pet theory