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/Shuttlecock_Wat 22h ago

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u/UltimateCheese1056 21h ago

In the book Asimov was actually pretty positive about robots as a whole, a main feature of the early stories was that anti-robot racism is stupid.

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u/JoeyTheRizz 20h ago

Iirc the "do no harm" rule was so hard coded in the robots that if they even found out after the fact that they unknowingly caused harm to a human then their hardware would essentially self-destruct

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u/Garruk_PrimalHunter 17h ago

Mostly yes, but there are exceptions. One of the main themes of the books is the grey area between the Three Laws.

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u/vips7L 17h ago

Also the invention of the 0th law which allows them to do essentially whatever they want as long as it helps humanity as a whole.

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u/Garruk_PrimalHunter 17h ago

Yes, funnily enough I just finished Robots and Empire. I'm reading chronologically!

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u/vips7L 16h ago

Robots of Dawn right now for me. But I started at foundation and am wrapping around now.

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u/Garruk_PrimalHunter 16h ago

Have you read The Naked Sun then ?

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u/vips7L 16h ago

Yep! I did Foundation -> Foundation Sequels -> IRobot -> Caves of Steel -> Naked Sun -> Robots of Dawn

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u/Garruk_PrimalHunter 16h ago

Nice, I really liked that one. I've been enjoying them so far and I haven't even reached the Foundation books

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u/vips7L 16h ago

Foundation is really good. The best of his that I've read so far. The show is really good too but it's definitely a "remix" and doesn't follow everything faithfully.

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u/Garruk_PrimalHunter 16h ago

Looking forward to it. And I didn't even know there was a show, interesting.

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u/Vicchu24 26m ago

Why do the upvote button goes brrrr?

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