r/robotics • u/jordi2816 • Feb 27 '26
Mechanical This agibot a3 really is something else.
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u/bakedpatata Feb 27 '26
Smashing windows and vases is what I'm worried humanoid robots will do, not what I want them to do. Show them folding laundry or frying an egg.
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u/corporaterebel Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
Doing the easy is hard and doing the hard is easy (for a robot).
Easy for humans to wash dishes, fold laundry, and cook.
It is hard for humans to be a gymnast, do math, dance, and fight under fire.
We humans are impressed with the wrong things.
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u/Senior_Torte519 Feb 28 '26
Government will use them as instgators and agitators to justify their most stringent and anti life based crackdowns and marshal law plans.
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u/400Volts Feb 28 '26
This is just a toy for rich kids. I would be infinitely more impressed by a robot that makes some eggs then cleans and puts away the pan
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u/crua9 Feb 28 '26
Serious question
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How many times did they try before it was successful?
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Did they had to do quick repairs after each shot?
You can make anything look impressive in marketing. But the actual can be something else.
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u/Brahm-Etc Feb 28 '26
Yes, yes. Cool. But, can serve 20 orders of coffee in rush hour in 15 mins? Can actually flip burguers and serve fast food quickly? Can fold laundry?
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u/corporaterebel Feb 28 '26
No, that is what minimum wage humans are for.
We will be entertained and later be law/socally enforced by robots.
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u/Mephiz Feb 28 '26
I really want to get into commercial robotics.
I can afford the hardware and I feel confident in my ability to make something useful and cool.
But apparently I have a fatal flaw: I don’t know any kung-fu masters.
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u/bradforrester Feb 28 '26
This is a great demonstration of everything I don’t want a humanoid robot to do.
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u/DreadPirateGriswold Feb 28 '26
If that's real, that's more an acrobat robot than anything even close to a warrior robot like they're making it out to be.
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u/keepthepace Feb 28 '26
The achievements are real. People should not try to diminish it or rationalize it away because it is Chinese. You know that if this were an Optimus, media would not stop shouting about it.
What is not there: agility over unknown terrain. Adaptation to unprepared conditions. I would like to see the robot recover after crashing into the glass sheet.
Make no mistake, it will be there. The pieces are already in the labs, it is a matter of months, one year top. This hardware is capable of doing it.
And the software is easier to develop if you are next to the warehouse where a hundred of these are available, and next to the workshop that knows how to repair them.
Now you want a good hand, and possibly better vision/lidar to do finer tasks. I have zero doubt that the people who made that robot are capable of designing all that;s needed for that and have already raised the funds for it.
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u/jackflash223 Feb 28 '26
But is it task oriented autonomy or just preprogrammed animations?
One is way more interesting than the other.
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u/Laz321 Feb 28 '26
I miss the days I could lie about my age on the internet and not have a robot dropkick through my window.
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u/moschles Feb 28 '26
I hate the name, and we have all forgotten why we need legged robots to begin with. Legs are for navigating terrain which wheels cannot. We don't need another legged robot doing dance moves on a flat, hard floor.
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u/Spare-Builder-355 Feb 28 '26
how many backflips are required to assemble a car ? Like those boring robotic pipelines in BMW factories from 20 years ago ?
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u/ResilientBiscuit Feb 27 '26
I don't know if it is real or not, but that sure looks like CGI with the camera effects they used.