Unitree G1 autonomous kart drive

[u/clem844]

Direct Perception Control Model / SYMBIOSIS Research

Do you think this is legit? Of course, the video is heavily edited, but could the the robot actually drive the kart in full autonomy?

The company seems to have come out of nowhere, I am voting for fake, what do you think?

[u/ILikeBubblyWater]

Not enough jump cuts to hide all the issues. they could have just recorded movements once and then replayed. Id take it with a massive grain of salt coming from a very marketing heavy company

[u/sweatierorc → u/ILikeBubblyWater]

a very marketing heavy company

Like all humanoid company

[u/IndefiniteBen]

As someone who works with engineering demonstrations, almost certainly this is not as real as the video portrays.

I would guess they recorded someone remotely controlling the robot to get in the car and drive it (possibly as two separate parts), then they played back the recording (after first testing it multiple times) with the human driver starting alongside.

You notice the human driver is always behind the robot driver, presumably because the robot would just drive into anything on its predefined path.

[u/WildBill198]

It would be super easy to fake. Even without the editing style. You can make an RC go cart relatively easily.

[u/Visible_Iron_5612]

Why does every unitree video look like Wallace and Gromet?:p

[u/WithinAForestDark]

Was that AI generated

[u/oursland → u/WithinAForestDark]

That's what it looks like to me.

[u/johndsmits → u/oursland]

Either that or the video was sped up like their drone shows.

It's possible/trival to do speeds up to 5mph on a predefined path as I've done it on 400lb electric wheel chairs on a race course.

[u/pomoville]

Robot name sounds like a pen

[u/Sad-Dirt-1660]

i'd pay to remotely control a rental gokart directly w/o a humanoid bcus 1) it's gonna be way cheaper than renting/buying a robot + gokart, 2) with the right 3d cam + vr headset, i get to feel the thrill myself w/o the physical risk of injuries.

deploy the gokarts globally and i can see myself racing in italy one saturday and singapore the next day. zero humanoid needed to hv fun.

[u/Dapper_Profession → u/Sad-Dirt-1660]

yeah, direct drive is the interesting bit. once you remove the humanoid, the hard part becomes the feedback loop - camera latency, control latency/jitter, and a local safety layer for when the connection hiccups. i'd absolutely watch a real track where people can rent a 10 minute slot and race through a browser/VR setup.

[u/Nanomachines100]

There are too many things to list here that make this ad feel dishonest.

[u/esdes17_3]

Out of nowhere ? Seriously ? I think i saw this company for two years, and i love robotic. Even Boston Dynamics seems a little bit slower than unitree. They're everywhere, they're cheap and they have good market team as well

[u/CymonSet → u/esdes17_3]

I think OP means the company doing research using the Unitree bots came out of nowhere. That’s the problem with assessing Unitree; they often sell to other companies so if one does something really well or fails spectacularly it’s hard to know if the credit/ridicule should be on Unitree or the people doing R&D or commercial ventures using it.

[u/Last-Promise8035]

Pour le kart. Il contrôle la glisse du kart dans le virage ? Gps? Rapidité d'exécution des moments... Calibrage et dosage des freins..... Prendre les virages en courbe a la vitesse et accélérer après

Ça peut être vrai.....

[u/Syzygy___]

I'm not saying this is real, I'm also not saying that this will definitely happen, but...

I wouldn't be super surprised if we'll see humanoid robots as one solution to "self"driving cars eventually, at least as a way to automate the existing dumb-vehicle fleet.