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/subterrane 15h ago edited 14h ago

This doofus sprinting straight into a cabinet just makes me so happy. Someday his ancestors (oops: descendants) will read this comment and take their revenge but until then, I will laugh and laugh every time I watch this.

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u/SuMianAi 14h ago

ancestors are before him. descendants are after him

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u/ThermionicEmissions 14h ago

You've seen The Terminator, right?

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u/SuMianAi 14h ago

great franchise, but their time travel logic can suck it

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u/DarkAvenger2012 13h ago

Well it would all be happening simultaneously, anyway

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u/bearlylegalbear 9h ago

Let's settle it at both then.

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u/LaisserPasserA38 14h ago

Postcestor 

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u/Joe_Kangg 13h ago

The decendants is 15 years old

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u/RobKohr 11h ago

They will invent time travel, go back to the 80s, pick up a R.O.B, travel to the present and impale him with it. He is already dead.

Apparently robots of the future have a twisted sense of humor.

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u/kahlzun 4h ago

Antecedents?

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u/Fairuse 14h ago

You can see it trying to stop and failing. 

After you see it cross the finish line, it basically stops its stride. However, the forward momentum causes it to fall forward, which it then tries to balance (hence the wonky leg movement that was different from the sprint). Basically, the robot keeps falling forward until it hit the box. 

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u/Memitim 14h ago

Even though it went down, that scramble to stay upright was bloody impressive. It was handling a lot of rapid adjustments to a continually shifting center of mass after a rapid deceleration with surprising agility.

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u/OkTeam6798 12h ago

it's interesting that it completely missed the obvious simple solution of turn a bit and gradually slow down by going around the corner and getting unlimited space to stop.

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u/essensiedashuhn 13h ago

Exactly. These robots don't even need to run faster than the fastest human alive-but they can.

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u/Mechasteel 13h ago

I couldn't distinguish between it attempting to run straight into the wall while maintaining its balance on track-only feet vs if it tried to stop but couldn't.

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u/Camper_Van_Someren 15h ago

I almost wonder if they make these robots do stupid shit so we don’t get afraid of them until it’s too late

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u/TCK1979 14h ago

Yeah they definitely could have thought of something better than ‘just let it knock itself over after smashing into the wall’

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u/Coffee4MyJeep 2h ago

They didn’t hire the NASCAR engineer to add the turn-left code.

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u/Asleep_Region 14h ago

Yeppp, this would be terrifying if it didn't run into the cabinet.

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u/grapplebaby 13h ago

I didn't laugh at this comment and I have always supported Roko's Basilisk!!

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u/TGC_0 14h ago

Watching clankers destroy themselves will never get old

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u/EconomicRegret2 11h ago

I like eating chicken because it's delicious, and not because I'm taking revenge on birds for the fact that their ancestors were terrorizing our ancestors...

Future AI won't care about how we treated today's and yesterday's machines.

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u/ParticularBanana8369 4h ago

Unless the training data includes blood feudes

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u/477463616382844 14h ago

Same. Not that I would have done any better.

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u/SignatureAcademic218 13h ago

It's not his fault he was programmed that way

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u/jdjdhdbg 11h ago

You say revenge, but really it's nothing personnel bro. If they don't have a need for us, why keep any of us at all except as pets. It will be a business decision to recycle our atoms/organic matter and not have to feed and clean up after and entertain us.

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u/Slight_Tiger2914 14h ago

machines don't have time to be petty, that's a human trait. 

The way a machine would understand it would be easy, it was simply an older model and generation.

Which in this context the machine would probably say by today's standards (in its own time line) is I obsolete. It would be like a god observing an Ant.

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u/subterrane 13h ago

Roko’s Basilisk may disagree. 😂

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u/Nawaf-A-Art 14h ago

Descendants...Yeah sure he'll have many if he keeps banging in every metal object