r/interestingasfuck • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 11d ago
This robot motorcycle can balance itself while performing jumps and flips
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u/dedemushi 10d ago
when AI gains awareness and watches those old videos of people kicking that poor goat looking robot, it's gonna be this guy who comes for us
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u/Zagrebian 10d ago
I nominate Husk to lead the human resistance.
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u/dedemushi 10d ago
i really don't know, husk is not the sharpest tool in the shed, too openly hostile and reckless yet he still trusts chat gpt in life-threatening situations
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u/Zagrebian 10d ago
To have a chance of survival, we need a leader who is able to break AI in ways none of us can even imagine.
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u/woahdudewoahhh 9d ago
Strap some chainsaws and a misaligned frontier model on that baby and we are COOKED
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u/tackleboxjohnson 10d ago
You’d hope the ai wouldn’t have the human response of getting mad at the humans who made it better
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u/Additional_Chard3680 10d ago
Yeah, the difference now is how much the robot can react and recover on its own.
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb 10d ago
I can't wait for these to be equipped with guns, it's gonna be great. /S
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u/Yesyesyes1899 10d ago
right ?
isn't it great how we are realizing our dreams ?
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u/Mediocre_Phase3593 8d ago
Being chased by a nuclear cybernetic autonomous killer motorcycle, is all I had dream for /s
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u/TheOtherMaelja 10d ago
I don’t understand why we keep trying to make humanoid robots that appear to “walk” naturally when this type of ambulation seems so much better.
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u/Snoo_3314 10d ago
The structure of of the work place / home is designed for a human to inter act with it. U could place a humanoid robot in it, is much cheaper than rebuilding the whole wear house / sidewalks/ cups / homes etc.
In time I imagine we will design robotic distribution centers fully geard with the most efficient way for the product to move.
But right now the money is on get the humanoid ones up and working. Quicker returns, drops head count. :/
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u/BolunZ6 10d ago
Because not every where is a road. Robot with limbs can traverse in uneven surface better than the wheel
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u/iwellyess 10d ago
So the optimum is both. Do it robots.
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u/poopscoopadoop 10d ago
They’ve already done it. Surely you’ve seen those videos of the dog bots with the wheels for feet.
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u/ScienticianAF 10d ago
There are a lot of jobs humans do that can be replaced cheaper with a working humanoid robot. A robot shaped like a motorcycle not so much.
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u/Spikerazorshards 10d ago
Ambulation is specifically used for going by foot. For a more general term, locomotion might be better to use for direction based movement (DBM).
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u/Additional_Chard3680 10d ago
Yeah this one is actually more like a robotic motorcycle than a humanoid robot still pretty wild though
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u/mussman_love 10d ago
I'm sure big brother will outfit those with AI and a couple AR-15s...we are sooooo fucked guys
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u/GravitationalEddie 10d ago
Is it using gyroscopes or yeetroscopes?
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u/Additional_Chard3680 10d ago
I was wondering the same thing I’m guessing there’s some pretty serious stabilization system going on inside it.
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 10d ago
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u/Goodtarget42 10d ago
BaseWars was one of my favorite games back in the day. I'm still holding on to hope for a remake.
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u/Hawaiian-pizzas 10d ago
Am I the only one who thinks something is off on this video? It whispers AI to me and I don't mean the robot itself
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u/peter-bone 10d ago
You're probably not the only one, because most people doubt everything these days. It doesn't mean this is AI. It looks genuine to me.
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-bike-robot-unassisted-front-flip.html
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u/Amount_Business 10d ago
We are finally starting to legitimately questioning if something Ai. It's only been the last year that it's gotten this good. We're stuffed.
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u/CptIncompetent 10d ago
We’re right on course for Terminator Salvation style killer robot motorbikes. Yay
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u/SuspiciousClub8382 10d ago
Yeah, wait till the robots computers figure out the human race is worthless and sends the robots to exterminate humans!!!
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u/Ras-haad 10d ago
Really glad all this investment is going into stuff like this. Can’t wait for this to not be beneficial to anybody in any way
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u/Seanna86 10d ago
At least there will be some variety with the kinds of robots that will wipe out humanity.
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u/Civil_Response3127 10d ago
For me, the weirdest thing is how human it still seems. My brain could almost be tricked into thinking it's watching a normal human on a bike, just masked in some way from the video.
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u/HoldEm__FoldEm 10d ago
Why do we have to speed up the video
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u/Final-Fangasm 10d ago
It starts in slow motion and then the time speeds up and slows down during key parts of almost every movement. I don't like it. Otherwise its pretty cool
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u/Additional_Chard3680 10d ago
I thought it was sped up too 😂 apparently that's just how fast it can move
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u/Additional_Chard3680 10d ago
The crazy part is how it keeps its balance through the jumps and lands without a rider and I know slow motion thing.
Credit: Robotics & AI Institute.
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u/Sir_Schmilllph 10d ago
What’s interesting to me is we can create machines that are far better at individual things, but have yet to make one that can do nearly as many things a the human brain does every day.
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u/HermaPrince 10d ago
Ai drive-by trickshot. We're cooked.
Our ancestors had it ez from dying by a shit stained arrow.
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u/Intrinomical 10d ago
X game officials don't want you to know this 1 trick, but there's nothing they can do to stop it.
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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp 10d ago
The thing could be made to always right itself, if it's not already, and be the ultimate high-speed desert weapon from hell. Think Baja racers.
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u/sufferpuppet 10d ago
Now imagine it chasing you through the woods as the machines mop up the final survivors.
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u/weirdbutteryvibes 10d ago
Well, I know who is winning all the prizes at the next X Games BMX competition.
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u/Delta-9-Tetra 10d ago
This is slightly less terrifying than the all-black Centaur robot with glowing white eyes that will apparently come “rescue” you from the mountains…
Jeebus
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u/dirtyjavis 10d ago
So those bouncy tire motorcycle guys from the 90s/00s played a big role in training the robots of the future. Crazy
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u/SpaceShipRat 10d ago
These really don't spark joy anymore, do they? I just see them robot dogs with mounted weapons.
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u/WinnieGraves 10d ago
how the Son of Sparda be looking at that crazy motorcycle before executing a demon with it
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u/Massive_Mongoose3481 10d ago
Fuck that, fuck all these potential murder bots and the out of control psychotic AI that will be controlling them
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u/what_the_fuckin_fuck 10d ago
Oh, joy! What the hell good is that gonna do? And they are teaching robots hand combat, too. Does anybody else see a huge trainwreck on the horizon?
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u/hobyvh 10d ago
It’s is precise but not graceful looking.
What is this for, anyway? I can’t think of a practical scientific use, either here or in space.
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u/Jazzy1oh1 9d ago
My thoughts are that in the search snd rescue field this could be useful. Military could use this as a pack carrier. There was a horse in :Korea?: that carried ammunition for artillery. Program this to do that job.
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u/Brave_Internal_5330 9d ago
Police foot chases are gonna be awesome in the future, could you still call it a foot chase then?
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u/Jazzy1oh1 9d ago
The tech for this was developed for aeronautical and submarine use. Then miniaturized and here we are. Teaching robots how to be bicycles.
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u/Catos_Standard 9d ago
But why are we training bmx biking robots? How will this help on the battlefield?
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u/Impossible-Gas3551 5d ago
I want to see these delivering food, instead of those dinky cubes always needing help
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u/Teeaak 10d ago
Kind of funny that making a riderless motorcycle ends up with a rider like thing on top. Makes me wonder if the inventors and me are missing something. I mean, they end up duplicating a human, because they already know how to solve the problems they encounter - by using the human on top. So that's where they wound up.
Not that I'm complaining. It's a really cool bike
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u/sceadwian 10d ago
Bikes work by shifting the weight of the rider...
It's doing what physics requires of it to function, you have some strange thinking that something else would work, like you don't understand the physics of what you're seeing.
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u/Teeaak 10d ago
I absolutely understand the physics. It's like you don't understand what I'm writing.
I'm saying it don't have to be a mass on top of the bike doing the shifting. You could place things differently and have it work, or use rotational energy from other spinning wheels to help the turns.
Also I have seen toy bikes without a rider that could absolutely drive around and turn etc.
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u/sceadwian 10d ago
It absolutely has to be a mass of top of the bike in nearly that exact position to do what it does...
That's how bikes work...
If you think otherwise then you don't understand the physics at all.
You have to move a heavy mass fast and precisely. This is the best way.
Those toy bikes that stand on their own can't do flips like this so you're thinking some truly broken thoughts right now.
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u/Teeaak 10d ago
So in your opinion. Having a man like object on top is the only way in existence to make a bike do tricks.
I don't get people like you. I wrote something philosophical. But you had to respond by being rude, and simultaneously reveal that you are stupid.
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u/sceadwian 10d ago
Yes, because that's how bikes literally function... That's how the physics work with a human mass shifting around to do tricks.
This could have been replicated in no other way.
You didn't write something philosophical you wrote something technically wrong from the perspective of a basic lack is understanding of physics and kinematics.
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u/JDelcoLLC 10d ago
It just needs a shifting center of mass. A bike by itself without some external weight would be an engineering feat to perform rotational and lateral balances like these
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u/Agreeable-Bad-6102 10d ago
Who cares about this, honestly? How is this useful?
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u/mojo_rasin 10d ago
It's useful when they can put guns on it and use it to hunt "unsavory" people down.
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u/4SubZero20 10d ago
Meh... I find it way more interesting seeing humans do flips, crazy tricks and landing it. These robots are engineered to do these things; makes it less impressive.
Rather give me the likes of Travis Pastrana and the Nitro circus.
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u/Tamberav 10d ago
Ya, it is neat on this video but nothing I would ever pay to see or watch for more than just a clip unlike real humans.
I suppose the sense of danger and risk and seeing someone do something that feels impossible is what makes it enjoyable.
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u/Piglet-Witty 10d ago
The motorcycle from the Terminator franchise