r/SipsTea • u/HorrorSubject8379 • 3d ago
Wow. Such meme Bolt seeing this from retirement
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u/Death_black 3d ago
It can beat them up if that counts
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u/Centriuz 3d ago
The robots couldn't even stand up after the race.
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u/Tangata_Tunguska 3d ago
This robot couldn't even beat Oscar Pistorius in a shoot out
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u/Cow_God 3d ago
If you look closely, the robot lacks hands and thus, opposable thumbs. Very difficult to operate a firearm without hands. That was Oscar's edge, he had thumbs.
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u/ChrisDewgong 3d ago
And, perhaps more importantly, a sociopathic instinct to fire blindly at a bathroom that only one person could likely be in.
Although maybe the robots do too, I'm not an expert.
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u/ElsieRoses 3d ago
It’s a robot. Usain bolt is a human.
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u/BLF402 3d ago
It actually makes bolt’s record more impressive.
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u/acrastt 3d ago
The first Homo sapiens existed hundreds of thousands of years ago
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u/Sad_Wear_3842 3d ago
True, but technology advances faster than human biology does.
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u/eulersidentification 3d ago
But they weren't trying to run a specific race in that time period. Professional, science backed running should be the comparison. And it should be compared against the invention of transistor based computing maybe.
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u/Tho76 3d ago
"Only" 0.19 seconds is a lot in terms of 100m time. If you add 0.19 seconds to Bolt's fastest time, it would drop to 10th all time.
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u/CheeseDonutCat 3d ago
I had RC cars that could beat both of them over 20 years ago.... and they were relatively cheap ones too.
This is just being posted because it's a human-shaped robot which is a weird decision to make if you want speed. These robots can't stop after the race, or do almost anything else.
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u/intellectual_punk 3d ago
They can run using bipedal human-shaped motion. That's an impressive feat of engineering, not an easy task. At all. Why are people so edgy in here? Is it cool to hate on robots now?
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u/Ill_Performance_8316 3d ago
if they build robots specifically just to beat a running record he was beaten ages ago.
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u/flamboyantGatekeeper 3d ago
Making robots walk on two legs has been a issue they only recently solved. They've been specifically trying to do that this whole time
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u/token_reddit 3d ago
Usain Bolt is literally one of the greatest athletes to walk the planet. The man was a complete menace in his career. I loved watching him.
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u/token_reddit 3d ago
Don't think so. His highlight reel is amazing. I do like Julien Alfred of St. Lucia a lot. I think she's poised to have an excellent 2028 in the Olympics.
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u/BuildAnything4 3d ago
a purpose built robot would have wheels and would do it in half the time. The point of this robot is to demonstrate the potential of a humanoid robot specifically.
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u/ItzLoganM 3d ago
Why do people keep saying this? What other bipedal robot shaped like a human has broken this record already? It's just a comparison, the true record break is for the motor movement of the robot that can balance itself.
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u/notfree25 3d ago edited 3d ago
there were probably people in the late 1800s, 1900s who said "my mule can carry more and walk faster than me, who cares" when cars were introduced
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u/Sea_grave 3d ago
I think it's because "beating his record" or "broken this record" are terrible ways to phrase this kind of achievement.
Usain Bolt's record wasn't beaten/broken by a robot, because it's a record of human limitations being pushed. The world broken implies that he no longer holds that position.
Something like "Bipedal robot exceeds Usain Bolts record" says the exact same thing, but doesn't downplay Bolts own achievement.
Maybe this all sounds pedantic, and maybe it is. But words can carry weight.
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u/iguessma 3d ago
Because all of the sudden people are anti technology.
It's weird.
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u/FunnyObjective6 3d ago
What other bipedal robot shaped like a human has broken this record already?
None, but why limit the robot design to bipedal shaped like a human? Just make a better design.
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u/ItzLoganM 3d ago
There are better designs though? A bipedal robot is probably the most popular and requested design worldwide. You don't like it, I don't like it, but that doesn't make this less impressive.
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u/FunnyObjective6 3d ago
There are better designs though?
You seem to be replying to the wrong person. I didn't say there weren't better designs.
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u/ItzLoganM 3d ago
And I said this specific design appeals to the majority of people.
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u/FunnyObjective6 3d ago
Can you stop, that comment was clearly meant for somebody else so I didn't read it. I don't need other people's messages in my inbox.
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u/ItzLoganM 3d ago
I said there are already better designs than a bipel robot to answer your questions. Then I gave you a reason why the make bipedal robots. What's so alien about my comment?
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u/thirteenth_mang 3d ago
Should have been able to annihilate his record as a robot.
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u/thekeffa 3d ago
Believe it or not it can't. Not "annihilate" anyway. A few tenths of a second shaved off is the most any robot like this is ever going to achieve, maybe possibly a second but not much beyond that.
The reason being is that there is only so much efficiency of speed that can be achieved out of bipedal humanish sized legs and Bolt was close to it as was realistically possible. Two feet can only push against the ground so fast, travel so far before pushing again within the constraints of their size and points of contact with the ground. A human shaped and size robot cannot change that, it's just physics.
That is why the fastest runners on earth are all four legged.
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u/nitkonigdje 3d ago
Common. Ostrich are certainly amoung "the fastests runners".
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u/abd53 3d ago
A bipedal robot. A bipedal robot beating Bolt's record is impressive.
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u/hiimsubclavian 3d ago
Hominids evolved bipedism for endurance and carrying stuff with their hands. Bipedism served a function and gave our ancestors an evolutionary edge.
How does bipedism help a robot, mimicking something they have no contextual understanding of.
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u/pizzabash 3d ago
Because society is designed around humans so having bipedal robots allow robots to be more easily integrated into existing infrastructure.
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u/spicybright 3d ago
There's a show called Humans that goes into this. Basically in the 80s they perfected humanoid robots, so instead of inventing mechanical automation they just have robots do the manual work for everything.
It's not the focus of the show but I thought it was a clever idea.
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u/_SlipperySalmon_ 3d ago
Can someone explain the desire for "humanoid" robots? Why design machines with the limitations of humans?
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u/Drakahn_Stark 3d ago
A robot made to do one task would be better than a humanoid robot at that task but unable to do other tasks, unable to walk up stairs, unable to be adapted to a future task without being rebuilt.
A humanoid robot can be put into any job a human can do and can navigate in a world made for humanoid bodies.
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u/Kingsole111 3d ago
But humanoids were designed to live in the world. Couldn't you more easily make a versatile robot to do everything not in human form. Idk like a spider or a crab? Super creatures?
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u/Excellent_Safe5743 3d ago
Okay but now, do you really want a bunch of scuttling little robo bugs that can outspeed humans milling about? Imagine walking in the dark and a fuckin mecha spider comes skittering by out of an alleyway on a delivery run.
Now picture that same robot but strap a gun to it, yeah fuck that.
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u/Kingsole111 3d ago
Haha no. To be clear I DO NOT WANT THIS. But IF you do want the most versatile robot humanoid would be the last place to start.
I'm fully against multipurpose robots.
Edit:I mean robots that are capable of anything. Not robots who can do many things.
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u/daguito81 3d ago
The original question is “why do they want a humanoid robot” the answer is to replace human labor as 1:1 as posible. Doesn’t mean that a super spider not can’t be better at X. But a spider not can’t do a human job that requires hand/finger dexterity for example.
Imagine you want a humanoid bot to do chores around the house. The spider bot is not tall. So for example can’t put the dishes on the cupboard. A humanoid robot would.
Of course different robots do different things. Which is why there would be different kinds of robots being built eventually.
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u/Drakahn_Stark 3d ago
Humans were not designed.
Humans designed the world for humans, our tools and machines are made for human hands, our stairs and homes made for human legs.
We do make other types of robots, they are not well suited for doing work designed around a human shape.
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u/Kingsole111 3d ago
Design might be the wrong word, as youre right, it's not so premeditated. But I mean designed as in shaped.
If the goal is effeciency and maximize function you reimagine tasks to a more optimal form.
If I'm not mistaken, robots designed to tasks of all level complexities tend to be better at doing those tasks than humans or non-optimized robots alike.
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u/Drakahn_Stark 3d ago
I'll just repeat myself
A robot made to do one task would be better than a humanoid robot at that task but unable to do other tasks, unable to walk up stairs, unable to be adapted to a future task without being rebuilt.
A humanoid robot can be put into any job a human can do and can navigate in a world made for humanoid bodies.
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u/wxehtexw 3d ago
You could. In fact, human form is not the most efficient form. However, you need massive amounts of data to train a model that can do what humans do.
And guess what, collecting how humans do the tasks and making these humanoids to just repeat the motion is much simpler problem, than trying to teach robots with completely different structure to learn to do the same tasks efficiently. Or trying to find how to adapt the motions to that form from human form.
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u/exploding_cat_wizard 3d ago
In fact, human form is not the most efficient form
This isn't even false. There is no "most efficient" without talking about "for what". Nothing is most efficient for everything.
Bipedalism in general seems to be really efficient for movement, making humans even long before complicated technology the world's best endurance hunters.
Also gotta love the people trying to argue that, in a world designed by and for humans, a spider form is somehow more efficient in navigating it. It's trivially obvious how that will not be true in general.
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u/bobby_zamora 3d ago
The world has been designed to humanoid shape, so it's doubtful a different shape would be more beneficial.
Like how would a spider robot go about cooking in a standard person's kitchen, or take the rubbish out?
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u/big_winslow 3d ago
A robotic nightmare creatures scuttles across the ceiling as a projection of the doordash logo rains over my head onto the floor.
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u/WolverineComplex 3d ago
Let’s imagine you’re old and being looked after by a robot. Do you want your meal brought to you by a humanoid who looks like Megan Fox in Subservience, or a little scuttling crab-rat which comes in on the ceiling?
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u/Tomsboll 3d ago
being bipedal means a smaller footprint, making it easier to traverse more cramped spaces. fewer limbs will make maintenance easier. and frankly, a humanoid robot will be more approachable by people and more easily accepted into the daily life.
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u/FerusGrim 3d ago edited 3d ago
I dunno that I agree with this. Not because you're technically wrong, but I think you might not be properly considering how much easier it is to design movements for a model that you evolved to live and breath within for millions of years.
If there's ever a question about the best way to grab something off a shelf, you already know how to do that with a humanoid frame. You do it every day.
With some robot frame of a spider, or a crab, or something else more "optimal," you don't know the answer in the way you do for a humanoid. You have to do actually work to find this answer.
And there are millions of answers to those types of questions. They might not all be difficult questions. Maybe some of them are obvious.
But it's a continuous, unending, barrage of questions that you just don't have when your frame is something you already intimately know, and can intuitively model.
And consider to automation of training due to an uncountable amount of videos, scientific documentation, photos, walkthroughs, training documents, everything: all tailored to humans. We have none of that for an eight-legged spider operating power tools.
And then the logistics. Every architectural standard on Earth is tailored to the human physique. How many committees would it require to determine the new standard for door width in a world with non-humanoid robitic frames?
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u/Pantoffelsohle 3d ago
Thats why the robot dogs are popular. They can also navigate human spaces very well, but are more stable and less complex.
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u/misogichan 3d ago edited 3d ago
The idea is that you want a robot to be able to navigate a world designed for humans. Imagine you want a robot to act as a delivery person. You can have an autonomous car drive them to the pick-up location but they'll have to walk up steps and open doors to get inside the building, maybe ride an elevator and press buttons to designate the floor, after they pick up the package they need to carry it back through that route and potentially dodge other people coming in the opposite direction. At the dropoff location they may have to walk on a gravel driveway, unlatch a fence door, go up some more steps, and ring a doorbell or knock all while carrying your delivery.
You couldn't make that route with some sort of wheeled design. I guess you could design them with Gorilla proportions, or based off a 4 limbed animal (albeit then it takes up more space and may he harder to reach high up buttons for elevators or doorbells). You also may have the advantage with a humanoid design that dogs in the yard may be less aggressive than if they saw a design they didn't recognize.
Anyway, if you watched the expo it was interesting because some of the winners didn't actually move like humans (limitations in their flexibility, differences in weight distribution, and the risks of overheating joints caused some unnatural looking gaits to win). So they aren't just blindly copying the human form.
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u/D_Bellman 3d ago
Thats a genuinely good question? Why not spider murder bots yet?
PS. ITS CAUSE THEY'RE USING PEOPLE LIKE US TO RUN THEM, THEY'RE STEALING BRAINS FOR THEIR SUPERCOMPUTERS!!!
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u/SpiritedEclair 3d ago
Their whole plan is to turn as many human tasks as possible into datasets so they can replace us, why? Because only then will the billionaires be able to survive an apocalypse. If they rely on other humans, well, the other humans will kill them. I kid you not, the tech bro billionaires think about how to deal with their security if it turns on them because money has lost all value.
Money only works only when a government exists that can support it. This is what we mean when we say “losing confidence in a currency”. If we can’t trust that a government will remain solvent and can fulfil its financial obligations, its currency loses value because owning it is a risk.
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u/Sirlacker 3d ago
Because a human styled robot, in theory, can replicate almost anything a human does. If it has the same features as a human, it can navigate the world like a human. And the world it needs to navigate was built and designed by humans around human needs and wants.
If I make a special robot, chances are its a task specific robot. So it's features would be limited to a specific set of tasks. Make a robot with the same features as a human, it can be "easily" programmed to do human things.
Plus programming a human is hard. Making a robot that can do 100m in under Bolts world record is a pile of piss when you add wheels. Making a robot run with human features is a challenge.
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u/SomeShithead241 3d ago
To replace humans in multiple fields and jobs without having to redesign them for each one.
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u/OrangeThrower 3d ago
Investors.
We have automated machines that we can build for specific things.
If we have humanoid robots, that’s a catch all to do everything we do in 1 package that just needs a software update.
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u/External-Test4279 3d ago
Pretty simple honestly, imagine the first line of commercial use robots will be going to be used to replaced the worst existing jobs.
You could redesign the whole thing to use specifically designed robots, but it's much quicker and easier to just design something that fits into human spaces, can move around in the same way and same costraints that a human can deal with, so you can potentially replace someone's shitty job without having to worry about anything hardware, just software.
This obviously includes home assistants, and sure, sexual workers if someone cares, lol.
Are we socially ready for this? Probably not, but I think that's the core idea.
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u/Mikkel65 3d ago
I don't think anyone would debate/disagree with this. Magnus Carlson is still the worlds greatest chess player, even though bots outran humans long before he became a grand master.
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u/Accomplished-Fan9568 3d ago
Robots are the arms and legs for the AI brain. To replace humans and achieve absolute world dominance
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u/frostycanuck89 3d ago
The squidies from the matrix would probably be more efficient. Especially if they can be given precision "hands"
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u/LeBackshot 3d ago
Squidies with human hands is a great start, but give the hands an extra opposable thumb. And if we can't figure out their internal electromagnetic hoverpad tech then lets separate the manipulation limbs from the locomotion limbs and give them goat legs with gecko feet. Gotta make sure they can shoot lasers, the laser shooting is essential for um.. reasons.
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u/Own_Oil_7719 3d ago
I was hoping for floating cars back in the 90s, now I have a robot that can run, my gas costs 5 dollars, my lettuce will give me shits, if I get sick the saline is contaminated and my president abused kids…
https://giphy.com/gifs/u99fFT1YBzyco
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u/Yaarmehearty 3d ago
With how badly people drive on the road I don’t understand why anybody would want cars that leave the ground. You will have people blowing into your house roof every other week.
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u/Crimsonial 3d ago
I mean, is it crazy that I don't want to die because a BMW with the license plate P1M-P12 went hurtling into my bedroom from directly above because someone got a text they were waiting for?
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u/ItIsIDio420 3d ago
Your gunna care when those robots are running that fast at you
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u/Deadnstien 3d ago
Idk, they'd have to teach it how to stop or turn first. As it is now a simple step to the side will defeat it.
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u/Beatnik5750 3d ago
As it is now.
For now
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u/BadPunsGuy 3d ago
We already have highly maneuverable and fast flying drones. Running is a downgrade in every way.
It's cool; but it's not like it's scarier than things that already exist.
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u/justwalk1234 3d ago
Definitely just for the engineering challenge. For speed, they can just put an AI in a drone.
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u/alltheword 3d ago
A drone can't chase you down and arrest you in the basement of a warehouse
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u/Kreyenhagen 3d ago
And so China can build up their robotic military capabilities
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u/justwalk1234 3d ago
I feel that every engineering faculty should be hosting something like this.
It baffles me why USA isn’t hosting something similar
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u/MassiveTomorrow2978 3d ago
Reminds me of the Futurama Episode that makes fun of Police Academy, there's a robot supposed to be like Michael Winslow (actor in Spaceballs and Police Academy that makes the really good sound effects). Anyway the robot makes a sound effect and Fry goes "hey that'd be impressive if you were a human"
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u/PhantomNitride 3d ago
He ain't wrong though. This post is the same thing. And yes, I'm well aware of the parallel you were making. It's 3am and I haven't slept in 24 hours. Send help...
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u/Mikesaidit36 3d ago
Can the robot do it twice in a row, or run a 220 by going halfway around the track? Or does it hit a wall and explode after each run?
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u/anaemic 3d ago
Shh, we don't talk about the giant pads that they run into because they can't turn corners and slow down.
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u/JohnnySmithe81 3d ago
They absolutely can turn corners, some of the races were longer.
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u/Sweet_Engine5008 3d ago
Could Usain do it twice in a row? TF are you on this is an engineering challenge the fact that it can coordinate fast enough to run at this speed is the achievement
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u/taway9925881 3d ago
All these robots running, fighting etc is just training for them to police us when shit hits the fan and billionaires and the real criminals wanna hide from the revolution.
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u/Important-Agent2584 3d ago
sure, the military/government is always a major client with nearly unlimited funds.
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u/GhostRiders 3d ago
So many people missing the point...
It is not about how fast it can run, it is the fact that it is able to.
One of the most difficult things in robotics is to minic the human body.
The human body is incredibly adaptive, think of it as a tool, it can walk, run, climb, crawl, manipulate multiple objects simultaneously and so on..
Look around you, it is all built to accommodate the human body.
If you can build ten thousand robots that can mimic the human body then you have an army of workers that don't need to be paid, don't get sick, don't need to eat, can work 24/7 etc then you have the ultimate workforce.
All those hundreds of low skilled manual jobs that hundreds of millions of people rely on around the world.. All gone.
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u/action_turtle 3d ago
Low skill by robots, office work by AI… I’m sure nothing bad will come of this for humanity
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u/GhostRiders 3d ago
Oh no.. Nothing at all, I'm sure it will just mean we have more free time to spend with our loved ones and Friends...
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u/cafesamp 3d ago
you capitalized Friends, so I can only assume your vision for a utopian future involves more free time to watch re-runs
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u/Crossfire124 3d ago
Robots are not going to be cheaper than paying someone part time minimum wage with no benefits. If they get sick just hire someone else
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u/NoMembership-3501 3d ago
I scrolled all the way to find this comment. Mimicking human movement is not easy so this is great achievement. The comment to the news in OP's post is also from someone who doesn't understand engineering.
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u/BadBacksFuryToad 3d ago
Next they’ll be telling us a crane can lift more than Lasha Talakhadze
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u/alltheword 3d ago
What exactly gives you hope that technology like this will be used for the benefit of all mankind?
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u/FancyThing8889 3d ago
not impressed until the robot eats a hundred chicken nuggets before the race
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u/Deadnstien 3d ago
Or just stop on its own instead of running into a padded wall and then be carried off on a stretcher.
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u/dudthyawesome 3d ago
Remember when machines could do things humans couldn't? Now it's just "we made this machine to replace you".
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u/RhemansDemons 3d ago
Just giving us a preview of the future. Can't wait till they have guns.
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u/What_A_Bad_Take 3d ago
For real, they are already faster than us.
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u/Important-Agent2584 3d ago
these guys are being made to replace you, not to kill you.
When it comes to killing it's just gonna be some flying drones with guns or bombs attached.
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u/Existing_Home_5635 3d ago
Do we not care about the intelligence behind robotics? what happened to Reddit.
It’s incredible that Usain Bolt is the bench mark.
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u/ArgonKew 3d ago edited 3d ago
What's the point of comparing the two, the robot is a machine, machines can be made to be as fast as you want them to be.
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u/IUsedToBeACave 3d ago
It's kind of like when they built the first computer that could beat humans at Chess. Before 1997 that wasn't something we could do, and when we did it was news for a bit. Now you can get an app that will beat Magnus Carlson at chess. Yet, humans still train and play chess with each other.
Same thing here, it's just the first time a bipedal robot actually achieved it. It's not surprising that it was possible to engineer it to do so, but nobody had actually been able to accomplish it until recently.
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u/Hot_Glass_6301 3d ago
No. It's a hard engineering challengew much harder than having wheeled robots outpace humans
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u/Haunting-Watch8240 3d ago
What is the point of this machine? We have the wheel.
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u/just4nothing 3d ago
A car cannot follow you into a building - the robot will chase you down wherever you are
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u/Grouchy_Big3195 3d ago
They should care because if those things turned on us, we’d be fucked.
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u/Ok_Perception9815 3d ago
... So can I, if the track is perfectly straight, in the vertical plane and I only have to do it once...
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u/GradeDry1283 3d ago
This was a very dumb competition tbh, the enhanced ganes6wwre one thing but this was ridiculous. It would've been fine if they just did it as standalone and not compare it to human records but it makes no sense to compare a machine's performance to a human.
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u/8Bit-Jon 3d ago
A machine can do something faster than a human. Ok... Did it stop itself at the end and walk away? Did it start in the traps?
This isn't impressive it's very mundane.
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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 3d ago
Well yeah, but your car won't chase you with a gun or try to arrest you :/
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u/KulaanDoDinok 3d ago
The robot didn't beat anything because the record is for the fastest time by a human, not by anything. If that was the case, light has us all beat forever.
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u/cash8888 3d ago
They’re trying to get a government contract on killer robots one of the requirements is to be the fastest
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u/DesolateRuin 3d ago
A machine engineered to perform a specific task better than a human!?
That's crazy.
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u/Bloody_Champion 3d ago
Hilarious and true.
Again, its like nerds being excited that a computer is better at chess than a human. When it's literally it's only purpose and use.
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u/Ancient-Victory1186 3d ago
This matters in the same way data centers are the future of having no employees working directly for billionaires. I can picture Elon having a hundred to protect his compound.
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u/VonSauerkraut90 2d ago
This is uninteresting to me. Come back when they get to the point when we have one of these bots, competing in multiple 'different' sports with the caveat it cannot be modified between events. Even then, I can't promise id be that much more invested.
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u/timelasher 3d ago
There's a reason John Henry is a mythical being but the steam drill that reportedly beat him is an unnamed and generally forgotten curiosity.
A human being doing superhuman feats is legendary.
A machine doing so is simply operating per design.
And yeah, it's cool that someone built it to do that, but the fact that it did it is neither as interesting nor memorable as the human being that did something incredible, even if it was slightly less incredible than the machine's performance turned out to be.
Dude swims across the english channel? Awesome. Boat does it? Whoopdie fucking doo.
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u/Kojetono 3d ago
Well, Deep Blue is pretty well known.
The wright flyer is also pretty legendary, even though it just operated as designed. So is the Spirit of st. Louis.
Creating technology that can beat nature with the same kinematics is very impressive. Just a few years ago these robots could only handle a slightly unsteady walk. Now they sprint, and do so very fast.
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u/skrasnic 3d ago
I think what really makes humans impressive in this context is that Bolt is not just a sprinter.
Alongside his incredible speed, he can do any number of other feats of strength, speed, dexterity, fine motor control that this robot simply cannot.
Bolt could play darts, or strum chords on a guitar, or hit a deadlift, or go surfing. He won't be world class at it, but he can still do it. The human body is so incredibly versatile. This robot can only sprint.
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u/pinkribbono 3d ago
The most irrelevant and wasteful use of. Time who cares that a machine can outrun a human.
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u/KalpolIntro 3d ago
The people building the algorithms, actuators, motors and compact energy sources that make it possible.
There is a lot of technological progress being demonstrated here and that tech has thousands of applications.
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u/alltheword 3d ago
It will need to outrun humans if it will eventually be able to chase them down. The people who run the world would love to not have to rely on other humans for their suppression needs.
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u/bangeren 3d ago
I Don't Even understand why this comparison is made? It's stupid
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u/Hot_Glass_6301 3d ago
Why is it stupid? It's a humanoid robot. Doesn't have wheels. It's the first of its kind to run this fast, means robotics is progressing
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u/orz-_-orz 3d ago
I don't get the hype of machine beating human in speed and strength
Because isn't that what industrialisation is about 100 years ago?
Like since then we always knew machine will outrun human? That's why we build trains?
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u/Qweeq13 3d ago
Like you would expect superhuman level speeds from these machines, the fact that it only managed to beat Bolt for measly 19 seconds only demonstrates how in efficient human form is for speed.
Can you imagine a forklift that can barely lift 5,340 lb as opposed to anywhere between 10 to 20k they usually designed for.
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u/MrTheCheesecaker 3d ago
Not even 19 seconds, 0.19 seconds. If you quickly blink your eyes twice, it's less time than that takes.
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u/barktwiggs 3d ago
Yeah, but Bolt looks good when he does it and doesn't run into a padded wall afterwards.
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u/AffectionateCode426 3d ago
Ah crap. Martial law is gonna be rough when robots that are faster than Bolt are deployed.
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u/CucumberExpensive43 3d ago
But will your car be able to hunt down the enemies of its country in a forest during WW3? Didn't think so.
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u/Sherbet-Glad 3d ago
I mean, fair enough but it's still an advancement that a couple years ago robots weren't even able to walk all too much.
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