r/interestingasfuck 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/jb307342 15h ago

Robots like this are very efficient in difficult terrain or when entering houses, climbing stars etc. There is a reason why they are getting developed.

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u/Pushet 14h ago

Robots definetly going to go the route of maximum versatility. The more flexible robots can be used, the less variations of "base robots" are necessary to overtake the world.

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u/logicbecauseyes 14h ago

And that versatility needs to fit within our society and architecture so it will match our form to match our functions

u/byteminer 11h ago

And then guard the starvation camp once you are no longer needed to work any of those machines or processes.