Ngl the nunchuck bots looked hilarious but I know that’s probably really impressive. I don’t really understand what this is or is for but damn it’s cool.
My brain sorta imagined this playing side by side with the vid from the US (I think it was) of the delivery robot moving along a sidewalk and going around a homeless person lying on the ground. Like a China with robotics vs. US with robotics thing.
This kind of stuff illustrates dexterity of the robots and their ability to maintain balance while performing quick actions. Even though the routine is programmed ahead of time, the robot still has to adjust on the fly.
This is the foundation for making robots that can navigate and interact with the environment effectively. It’s basically the nervous and balance system.
Then higher level AI models can focus on actually setting goals and accomplishing them, and high level commands will be delegated to the underlying platform to execute.
It’s akin to the way humans operate as well. When you go to grab a cup from the table, you think about your actions at high level. You’re not conscoously aware of all the muscle contractions and movement adjustments that are constantly happening. You’re just thinking of the high level goal. I want to move my hand in this direction until I reach the cup, then I want to grasp it, then retract the hand.
I expect that we’re basically going to get real life Star Wars droids in a few years. You’ll have affordable robots that you can communicate with using natural language, and that will be able to accomplish a lot of common tasks in human environments.
Given the snail pace of development in the west, i would never think i would see a humanoid robot in my lifetime. Hell, Asimov and other authors and movies hyped like 4 generations about them and still nothing. But then Chinese took to it, just few years and i see a robotic kung-fu lol.
It truly is amazing to watch how fast technology advances in China, and how quickly it finds its way into day to day life and industry. Boston Dynamics was showing off fancy demos for like a decade now, and none of that ended up seeing any real world use aside from small pilot projects. Eventually they got sold off to a Korean company, and I’m still not aware of any big implementations of their tech. Meanwhile in China, humanoid robots are already being used all over the place from factories to stuff like power grid inspection.
Part of me wants a little service robot, but also I hope they never sell or share this tech with the west cause they will just make them into murder bots to kill all of us.
I really loved the dance and I also added more information about the company in c/Technology! It is so incredible that one user from lemmings.world called it AI slop due to their disbelief. -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10737578/7758345
At this rate, people like that user(probably a Westerner) will call AI slop to anything incredible coming out of China LOL
freaking chinese robots think they’re so cool just because they can kick your butt
I was in China a few years back, and there was a clanker rolling around serving my food at a restaurant.
Now they’ve got humanoid clankers doing backflips and shit on national television for the world to see. One even corrected itself when it stumbled.
