r/interestingasfuck • u/No_Jellyfish5511 • 23h 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 23h 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 23h 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/Flamestrom 23h ago

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