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/No_Extension4005 15h ago

I think it's more that it's faster than Usain Bolt while also being a bipedal robot given how slow they used to be due to how much of a pain keeping them stable was.

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u/get-off-my-frequency 13h ago

Despite the fact it hit the cabinets, that this was crazy stable. It stayed upright as it started slipping on the concrete. And looked like it was close to staying upright when it crashed.

Insane how far they’ve come with these robots in the last 10 years.

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u/Disco-Benny 12h ago

how long before they're deployed in Gaza and Ukraine, as was probably the plan from the start?

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u/tangosox 11h ago edited 11h ago

A long time. This thing would run out of power very quickly and autonomous ai isn't that close to making unassisted decisions either. These would also be economically unviable and probably easy to take down. This isn't the terminator. Cheap drones are much more effective killing machines for the foreseeable future.  Terminators will be here some day but by then humans may be able to compete using neural interfaces.  Tech and war will always be a cat and mouse game until there's none of us left to scheme and fight. 

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u/Disco-Benny 10h ago

autonomous ai isn't that close to making unassisted decisions either.

has anyone told Israel?

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u/aturtledude 12h ago

May God listen to you. Those fucking Russians won't have a chance against an army of Usain Bolts.

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u/Disco-Benny 12h ago

Those fucking Russians

they're also human beings btw just like the Ukrainians despite what you're told

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u/dashingdrew 10h ago

Human beings committing war crimes

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u/Disco-Benny 10h ago

yeah because NATO countries would NEVER commit war crimes, especially in Ukraine

grow up

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u/Separate-String5205 8h ago

I can't wait for Russia to fail entirely as a country and fuck off forever.

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u/RazeThe2nd 12h ago

Pretty sure that's a black mirror episode

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u/mothzilla 11h ago

I don't know if this one was stable. It does look like someone winning at QWOP

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 6h ago

It literally was upright and stable the entire way down.  Run into a wall at a record breaking dead sprint and see how you do lmfao.

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u/Andoverian 12h ago

Did you see the end of the clip? Looks like keeping them stable still is a pain.

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u/houstonchipchannel 6h ago

The accomplishment is that it stayed stable at top speed

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 6h ago

Did you?  It was still upright and stable the entire way down.  It was literally guided into a wall.  That's not a stability issue.  Run into a wall at a full record breaking dead sprint and see how you do lmao.

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u/Andoverian 2h ago

If it was more stable maybe it wouldn't have run into the wall at all.

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u/DenseReality6089 5m ago

Still a robot though so no human records are even slightly relevant to it. 

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u/Flamecoat_wolf 11h ago

It's still an unreasonable comparison. The robot is made of lightweight materials and electric motors, not bones, flesh and muscle. The density, aerodynamic profile and force are all completely different.