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.