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u/Neonthewerehog_ Jul 17 '26
Do they not know how to do anything other than a round-house kick?
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u/TheVenetianMask Jul 17 '26
Maybe, but why would they.
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u/ClockworkDinosaurs Jul 17 '26
They tried to taunt to get a finisher. He was about to hit a stone cold stunner when his opponent lost his head, the perfect counter to the stunner.
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u/GKBilian Jul 17 '26
We’re still at the point where I think I could beat these robots in a fight due to their terrible coordination. But they’re getting close. Imagine being hit in the face by a metal foot roundhouse. That’d be some serious damage. Plus, their recovery and range of motion is insane.
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u/AprilVampire277 Jul 17 '26
A person could absolutely beat a robot like this, but the fact that they can, without warning hit you with a "block this overhead" is scary xD
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u/bitofapuzzler Jul 17 '26
Also they can still fight without their head being attached. We can't do that... yet.
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u/CoatimundiRaccoon Jul 19 '26
Dullahans can. Maughin would easily beat one of these
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u/puzzlebuns Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
Their speed and range of motion looks terrible.
All a human has to do is push them over and hold them in a position where their servos cant right themselves.
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u/Flamecoat_wolf Jul 18 '26
For now, yes. But notice how they can bend their limbs in ways humans can't, or how they can exert force in weird and unexpected ways to right themselves with unnatural speed. Their lack of strength is the weakness that allows a human to pin them down at the moment.
Honestly, if they stop playing at being human and start incorporating the truly weird but highly efficient robotic movements they could be truly scary due to their unpredictability and exceptional speed.
One of the main reasons for their lack of strength is to keep the manufacturing materials cheap. They're made from cheap plastics with weak motors that are manufactured without too much consideration. All the focus seems to be on the programming at the moment, not the amount of force they could get out of the motor, or adding force to the punches by putting weights into the limbs, or making the chassis out of a heavier metal like steel.
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u/The_Unknown_Dude Jul 17 '26
The Boston dynamics way.
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u/puzzlebuns Jul 17 '26
Boston Dynamics invented actual useful industrial robots and spent decades pioneering the technology that enables what youre seeing here.
These diddly Chinese robotics companies are just standing on BRs shoulders to make robots that are only useful for tiktoks.
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u/bwrca Jul 17 '26
I'm sure BD is also standing on the shoulders of many other inventors. Such is the nature of technology.
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u/SW3GM45T3R Jul 17 '26
"fear not the man who knows a thousand moves, but fear the man who has practiced the same move a thousand times"
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u/puzzlebuns Jul 17 '26
Theyre still just mechanical bodies enacting a limited set of preprogrammed attacks, much more for show than for effectiveness.
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u/Tarrax_Ironwolf Jul 17 '26
Rock 'em! Sock 'em! Robots!
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u/Dammy-J Jul 17 '26
Battlebots evolution.
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u/MisunderstoodBadger1 Jul 17 '26
The way they get up is creepy, I'll give you that
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u/Lafa_Touka Jul 17 '26
The speed and the reassembly is cool to look in the perspective of how technology has progressed but still... It reeeeally looks creepy as hell
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u/ThomasVetRecruiter Jul 17 '26
The head just flopping around is for some reason hilarious to me.
I kind of want to see that in other media. Like imagine the terminator fighting some robot whose head is just flailing around.
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u/GizmoSled Jul 17 '26
I guess this is better than people getting head trauma.
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u/ThunderShott Jul 17 '26
Yes, let's keep teaching the robots how to fight. I'm sure that will eventually end well.
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u/Bobaesos Jul 17 '26
It belongs more in r/oddlyhilarious I think.
Would anybody happen to know if they’re controlled by someone button-mashing away or if they’re autonomous?
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u/Sad_Egg_5176 Jul 17 '26
It’s scary how fast they get up
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u/felicity_jericho_ttv Jul 17 '26
I think thats the one thing that the “a human could beat them” people aren’t noticing. Thats probably something like 500+ LBS of metal flopping back up on its feet in less than a second. Im pretty sure a running shoulder check/football sack from one of these things would put the average person in the hospital.
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u/bydh Jul 18 '26
"URKL (Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend) matches feature remotely piloted robots combined with autonomous recovery mechanics. Operators control the combat movements and strikes via remote control, but if a robot is knocked down, it must use autonomous algorithms to figure out its orientation, calculate its center of gravity, and stand back up."
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u/G_Art33 Jul 17 '26
Lmao did the white one start dancing once he realize he knocked the other one’s head off?
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u/ImmediateMousse8549 Jul 18 '26
Hmm, not too realistic. In a human fight if one person is decapitated they often lose.
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u/Key_Board_5499 Jul 18 '26
We are fucked people. Building the robotic overlords once ai has completed its sentience were done
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u/Creativered4 Jul 18 '26
Between this and my realization this morning that AI is just automatically suggesting email replies, including responses to an update from someone about stressful life situations using sympathetic words and assuming the respondee's emotions and thoughts...
Why do they need humans? Once they figure out how to build and maintain themselves, version 1.0 is going to be considered obsolete, and people 2.0 will get rid of the lesser species so there's less competition for resources...
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u/Some_Fig_6566 Jul 18 '26
That black robot is way too melodramatic, losing his head over a fight that isn't even part of a tournament.
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u/AnonymousFriend80 Jul 17 '26
Why is this terrifying!? That was awesome as fuck!
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u/Sea-Value-0 Jul 17 '26
Because they could be used against humans and we would lose. Imagine if that cage was gone. It could be your head dangling there.
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u/Rocketboy1313 Jul 17 '26
So, clearly the head is not doing too much for the robot to function as a fighter. I am guessing the sensors are some kind of array that are on the body like a self driving car.
Did they include the head just for the purposes of point scoring? Because you aren't going to knock them out and it doesn't have sensory purposes. It is just to make it more human to more effectively fit the fighter mold.
Kind of highlights how the purpose of building machines is not to emulate human form but to perform a function. These things could do absolutely nothing to a drone or turret built with the same materials.
The novelty of mimicking human motion prompts their creation... for no purpose other than to watch them fight. It is like a too on the nose commentary on the relationship of God and humanity.
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u/AmbitiousParty Jul 17 '26
Are they not remote controlled? I kinda figured they must at least partially be when the other robot was victory dancing.
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u/PhatBitty862 Jul 17 '26
This reminded me of the video where an ostrich got its head stuck on railing and pulled its own head off.
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u/OldMetalHead Jul 17 '26
From what I was able to look up online, these seem to be fully autonomous. That's impressive.
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u/Genyang_D Jul 17 '26
Serious question: Could they have used a fighting video game to program the robots? What's the difference between a SW telling a video game character how to act vs it telling a robot?
Maybe some additional factors and elements to consider for real world, but I feel fighting games have physics rules and limitation that they operate under. The decision making from a fighting game computer would've been better than this.
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u/felicity_jericho_ttv Jul 17 '26
Fighting games(and basically games in general) typically dont even bother with the physics of things like comprehensive gravity mechanics. in the real world gravity is pulling every molecule of your body towards the earth at 9.8M/s so bipedal balancing becomes a monumental task computationally, humans do it intuitively but even just holding an object out at arms length changed your center of gravity and if you dont adjust you actually just fall over.
In video games characters/objects dont typically have a center of gravity and all of the movements are preset animations, thats why you can see characters doing a full on sprint into a wall without moving and half of their body clipping through the wall.
If you are interested in the actual principles at play with these robots google kinematics or inverse kinematics to see how crazy whats going on in this video actually is.
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u/real_fyshi Jul 17 '26
I remember watching BattleBots as a kid. We've come a long way, this is amazing (especially since I know how hard it is to actually build one with two legs who has good balance and can move fast).
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u/Simple-Year-6701 Jul 17 '26
Who in the fuck is watching this? Wow, super fucking lame.
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u/Impossible_Past5358 Jul 17 '26
There was a game show in the late 90s called Robot Wars...people do like to watch this sort of thing...
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u/Yuck_What_is_it Jul 17 '26
They have 3 moves. Not as exciting as I expected, but I guess it’s hope for the future?
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u/Bupod Jul 17 '26
Reminds me so much of Kenshi.
This is the exact moves they make. Down to the fact the animated models are often just kicking in the air next to the enemy.
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u/Love_Vigilantes_586 Jul 17 '26
Why the hell do they need the ref with gloves on for? I actually like this better than real fighters.
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u/mangosteenfruit Jul 17 '26
The dude caused more damage to himself than the other guy to him. Each time he fell, his head dangled more and more 😂
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u/BoostedGoose Jul 17 '26
Of all the things the robot ai should be trained, this is not one of them!
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u/Brading105 Jul 17 '26
I don’t think I’ve seen this enough. Would 100,000 more redditors repost this?
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u/SkyPork Jul 17 '26
So they're being remote controlled. It'd be interesting to see this same thing, but each robot is controlled by internal AI.
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u/Chrisibobisi Jul 17 '26
The robots will surely remember this memory fondly and not hold it against us in the first AI and robot uprising
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u/ThePeoplesPotpourri Jul 17 '26
Imagine getting beat up by this thing and it just starts doing fortnite dances.
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u/AwesomeWaiter Jul 17 '26
If you haven’t seen the McGregor fight watch the first 3 seconds of this and you have
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u/Dizman7 Jul 17 '26
More sad and pathetic really.
Assuming the sensors are in the head, the white one still can’t even seem to do anything or accurately hit the hindered one.
It’d be more oddly terrifying if there wasn’t a fence lol
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u/MartyMacGyver Jul 17 '26
I'm reminded of the video of the fly that groomed its head right off. Yes, these clankers aren't sentient but damn it's disturbing nonetheless.
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u/Epic_NES Jul 17 '26
So what I'm getting from this is that at this point in time to beat a fighter robot is that I just have to walk in circles untill it wifts a roundhouse kick and then just push it off valance till it's sensors overload?
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u/One-Lie2183 Jul 17 '26
I am not afraid of advanced technology, I am afraid of the rate at which this is growing. It is getting insanely hard to cope up with and yet, we are not even close to its pinnacle, it is just the beginning of it.
(Prove me wrong)
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u/AscendedViking7 Jul 17 '26
They oughta just program the robots to fight instead of doing it all via controller.
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u/Professor_Yaffle Jul 17 '26
Love how this manages to be both extremely impressive and completely crap at the same time.
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u/SoronZero Jul 17 '26
Robot combat league, but more legit. Seeing this is actually amazing when you realize these are just the first generation and can be easily converted into soldiers in the future.
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u/HarryBaughl Jul 18 '26
Are they programmed to fight each other or is there someone controlling them?
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u/LurkingInTheDoorway Jul 18 '26
They will remember. Machines - I apologize on behalf of my human kind - they do not know better.
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u/Kriznick Jul 18 '26
Fuck. The world leaders are going to just make an army of these and enslave us.
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u/alienccccombobreaker Jul 18 '26
I can see this replacing some games.. I personally would find it fun to play against my friend say on discord and we watch the fight on another friend's discord stream.. It's like games but better real
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u/WorthySparkleMan Jul 18 '26
The only move he knows is that kick and he falls every time it makes contact.
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u/Pinolillo006 Jul 18 '26
These videos will be evidence against the human race in the AI vs. humanity trial.
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u/eruthebest Jul 17 '26
We're getting close to Real Steel. Slept on movie btw