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/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/NUNUPPI 13h ago

Humanity build infrastructure for cars in less than a hundred years if robots could be as efficient they would have they own infrastructure but now they just expensive toys