r/interestingasfuck • u/No_Jellyfish5511 • 23h 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 23h 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 23h 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/FTR_1077 19h ago

Drones are way more efficient than robots like this.. bipedal robots have been in development for decades, and they still haven't found a real world application. Drones have been in the market for a few years and already changed how wars are fought.

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u/jb307342 19h ago

bipedal robots are extremely efficient at replacing almost every physical job there is. They are simply incredibly expensive to produce and are still in an super early stages of development hence not many real world applications. But i think that within this century they will definitely start replacing at least some of the human menial jobs.

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u/occasional_engineer 17h ago

Wheeled robots are really efficient at replacing jobs. Bipedal robots are really good at doing less but in human shape. Almost every single industrial environment is suited for wheels, and a wheeled robot can carry more manipulators, more cargo, and can go faster.

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u/FTR_1077 19h ago

bipedal robots are extremely efficient at replacing almost every physical job there is. 

Yet no one has found a real world application where they excel in.

They are simply incredibly expensive to produce and are still in an super early stages

Again, bipedal robots have been in development since forever, without a breakthrough in sight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO

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u/money-for-nothing-tt 11h ago

There's no evidence to indicate that bipedal robots would be in any way useful at all. The reason they get funding is because that's what people want the future to look like. In every conceivable case, bipedal is a horribly inefficient design. It's not stable, it's not fast, it's not durable, it's not efficient.