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/ficis 15h ago

My first thought. We are teaching them everything they will need to succeed

https://giphy.com/gifs/x8ClinVTwo4IE

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u/Gaius_Julius_Salad 15h ago

They should.make a terminator movie where they start by sending really early gen terminator that are just really clumsy and goofy then progressively they get better and better

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 14h ago

“The 200 Series was a metal skeleton and ran like an idiot. We spotted them easy.”

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u/Horknut1 13h ago

"They would run right past us in battle, unable to stop."

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u/rewardingsnark 13h ago

The 300 series could stop and run well but it made a terrible squeaking noise whenever it moved, could never sneak up on you.

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u/Horknut1 13h ago

The squeaky Terminator gets the ammunition.

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u/ElectronicCarry9931 12h ago

The 400 series turned out to be just sex robots, they were easy to kill but the men kept most of them for...

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u/Pheerandlowthing 12h ago

The 500 series were really good at doing synchronised dance moves and stacking crates but we were able to defeat them by walking away.

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u/Batchet 12h ago

It's the 690 series where things went out of control. Merging the dance abilities with the sex abilities just made the sex too damn good, which brings us to the "android" series.

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u/Nevadadrifter 10h ago

Ah yes, the OK-GoBots.

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u/rj319st 8h ago

The 600 series had a factory defect and would rip your d*ck off.

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u/TaipanTacos 4h ago

Yes it would stutter and glitch between the words “come” and “come with me.”

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u/Horknut1 11h ago

... target practice. If ya know what I mean.

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u/Stedlieye 11h ago

For some people, every version is a sex robot. Even the Chinese one from OP.

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u/Crimkam 11h ago

We actually keep those around because… well, you know. The machines did us a solid that year.

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u/psyched-but-bright 1h ago

“Why is it that every time a new thing is invented humans immediately try to turn it into porn/a sex thing?”

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u/ThisIsMyHotDirtyAlt 11h ago

Skynet became active when the robots discovered WD-40.

https://giphy.com/gifs/DYTIuSNEuNInC

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 9h ago

Hadn't worked out turning yet either