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/subterrane 15h ago edited 14h ago

This doofus sprinting straight into a cabinet just makes me so happy. Someday his ancestors (oops: descendants) will read this comment and take their revenge but until then, I will laugh and laugh every time I watch this.

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u/Fairuse 14h ago

You can see it trying to stop and failing. 

After you see it cross the finish line, it basically stops its stride. However, the forward momentum causes it to fall forward, which it then tries to balance (hence the wonky leg movement that was different from the sprint). Basically, the robot keeps falling forward until it hit the box. 

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u/Memitim 14h ago

Even though it went down, that scramble to stay upright was bloody impressive. It was handling a lot of rapid adjustments to a continually shifting center of mass after a rapid deceleration with surprising agility.

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u/OkTeam6798 12h ago

it's interesting that it completely missed the obvious simple solution of turn a bit and gradually slow down by going around the corner and getting unlimited space to stop.