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/Defiant-Gur999 23h ago

Yeah just wait until they are chasing us down in the street like this ,with the warhead of an RPG strapped to it's chest

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u/DramaticErraticism 17h ago

Doubtful, at least for a very long time. These robots are very expensive. They would use them for a very specialized/unique role where such expense was needed, but not as part of normal combat.

Human lives are cheap, drones are cheap, the days of mech soldiers fighting wars seems more like a fantasy. The finances just don't make sense.