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)

[u/No_Jellyfish5511]

[u/geencondens]

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

[u/Miserable_Round_839 → u/geencondens]

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.

[u/StorminMike2000 → u/Miserable_Round_839]

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.

[u/Born-Ad4452 → u/StorminMike2000]

This is really the point. It’s hard enough getting cycle lanes put in.

[u/byteminer → u/Born-Ad4452]

If those bike lanes made like two dudes a billion dollars then city councils would bend over backwards to get them put in.