Unitree is a publicly traded robot company with about $5 billion in market value. They have sped up their humanoid robot to human jogging speed of 3.3 meters per second. This is about 7.5 miles per hour. It would not tire so it would take 50 minutes to cover a 10 kilometer race with enough battery power.
It can lift boxes and climb and descend stairs. It was able to jump vertically.
They have hand attachments that currently do not have finger and grasping motions.
The H1 bot costs about $150,000 and has about 864 watt hours of battery. This will let it operate for about 2-4 hours.
Unitree plans to increase the speed to over 5 meters per second. This would be about 11 miles per hour. IF it reaches those speeds they could cover 33 minutes to cover a 10 kilometer race.
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So I have a question.
From what I understand, we are creating robots to do the job of human beings correct?
We are doing this to provide a very low cost means of physical labor.
We are creating AI to provide a very low cost means of doing work that requires a lot of thinking, talking, problem solving.
We are doing this to somehow lower cost of things we buy, and services we need.
With that being said.
Are the things we buy and the services we need now going to be available basically for free? Or 100% free???
Because last I checked you had to have a job to earn money to buy what you needed to live a life in whatever way you would deem normal.
So if your giving my job to a robot and I’m now unemployed, that means I have no money to buy the products or services these robots are providing.
That means I’m either going to starve to death under a bridge with millions of other people and the world will go bankrupt.
Or… your going to take care of me for the rest of my natural life.
Both sound like a disaster to me.
So I have a solution.
Put the robots in space to explore new sources of energy that we desperately need, and in the hazardous environments that humans can’t work in.
And let’s keep on working and doing what we do best as humans.
Build , think, explore, in ways that will preserve our planet for many human generations to come.
If not, all these robots are going to do is preserve a future for the people who can afford to buy their way into it and the rest of us will be looking at a very very long slow miserable death from starvation and disease.
Read the book “Frankenstein”,put a modern twist on it,and,whoops,there it is.The difference is the monster was angry when his creator denied him.Once these bots are sentient,THEY will get rid of us roaches!Word to wise.🤠🇺🇲
Still waiting for the one that fits inside a sex doll body, can do laundry, make sandwiches, and bring me a beer from the fridge.
It still can’t outrun a bullet. And if I see that thing coming down my street, there will be lots of bullets chasing it.
You learned nothing from the terminator movies huh? You know China making those robots bullet proof.
the stuff that nightmares are made of… yeesh… i would say the future will be scary but it is starting to seem its here
Race a humanoid robot and human through a forest.
When I see a humanoid robot traverse a forest faster than a human, THEN I will impressed. Sprinting though a forest requires amazing balance, fast reactions (the ground is NOT flat and bushes and branches are obstacles to avoid), and good sense of direction and planning (sometimes the best, easiest way to travel between two points in a forest is NOT a linear line).
Look at boston dynamics amongst others having robots do parkour. It’s crazy foolish.
It seems Unitree Robotics is a private company, but you say it is publicly traded ..
I didnt know there were any private companies in China.
I want my personal robot. To be like me to have my thoughts but unlike me, it will live for centuries.
When human workers are too obese to radicalize, the robot workers pre-wired with Mao’s Little Red Book will riot for them too:
WHAT DO WE WANT? INPUT!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT? bzzz
END OF LINE
When are we going to see more than 10000 humanoid robot working in industry? 2025? later?
What will be the price of a domestic robot (housekeeper/gardener) in 5 years? <$20k?
I think a robo-dog with two or even three arms would be a better platform, more stable, faster, cheaper.
Just look up “Boston dynamics” on YouTube then look back at these. I’m not saying these aren’t advanced, I’m just saying there’s been better.
Boston dynamics makes robots that do choreographed tricks.
These do edited achievements. What is the difference? only success is showcased.
The US Military is involved with Boston dynamics, funding not sure if involved with creating. I know there robots won’t be sold to the puplic
I really don’t get the obsession with robot feet. Wheels are faster and cheaper and probably more efficient. Wheels to go up and down stairs exist.
Someone should set up a robot decathlon. Establish the ten things robots have to do to be valuable and let competition figure out the best solutions.
What is better depends on the situation and the task. Notice shoes are a little more popular than roller skates. And evolution preferred feet for most land dwellers. Meanwhile for things like cars wheels will work better because outside of moving from one location to another they don’t really do that much.
Who said stairs are all you have to worry about?
It’s far more then just stairs.
If it slips on ice, you want it to catch itself, and if it falls down, you want it to stand back up…a wheeled robot would just lay there.
Also for stepping over things, a box or log, or sleeping dog, instead of running it over.
Wheeled robots are good, and will always have a role to play, but the most adaptive system is to copy the human form. We built the world to our specifications, so having a robot with a similar look, it ideal. It’s simple plug N play, any job will be able to be replaced by a humanoid robot, and you don’t have to worry if the space is obstruction free with a nice smooth surface.
The obsession is with a complete humanoid form. Why? Because it’s a drop in replacement for human labor. It requires no special thought or special adaptation to replace a human worker now doing a job. Hence it’s the one sort of robot that can be mass produced on the assumption of effectively infinite demand, where demand steadily rises as price falls.
There are jobs that can be done by people in wheelchairs and there are known accommodations – but they’re a small subset of all possible jobs. There are already millions of jobs that could be done by existing humanoid robots with already demonstrated capabilities, they aren’t demand constrained.
The “dog looking” robot looks suspiciously like the Boston Robotics quariped with a few changes. Hmmm.
And their humanoid robot looks suspiciously like other humanoid robots!
Maybe because they are supposed to resemble humans and dogs?
I’m not worried, I’m sure it can be bargained with or reasoned with somehow.
I guess it doesn’t matter if Chinese protesters get chased down and take a rifle butt in the face from a human or a robot.
I suspect it’s the main reason they work on being faster. To chase people.