Humanoid robots are the warm new thing and no longer the Arewiew of Science Fiction, but instead a growing fact in life. Although most people are still in the laboratory or a handful of factories, their skills are more human -like at the moment. These robots go, run, help, talk thanks to AI, hang out, dance and sometimes suffer unfortunate levels of abuse.
One of the more notable humanoid bots is the Unitree G1, a “Humanoid Agent AI Avatar” with pint size with dozens of joints and engines. I have seen G1 in person at CES and it is an impressive feat of technique. Despite its mobility and dexterity, G1’s capabilities are largely a product of remote control and can or pre -programmed movements.
Still, the $ 16,000 (to start) Unitree G1 can maintain balance and precision in the light of unforeseen obstacles. Unitree recently demonstrated this skill in a new video that not only shows the Unitree G1’s remarkable dance skills, but also its endurance in the light of – Ahem – adversity. Unitree notes that the skills demonstrated in the video are new and have not yet been rolled out to all customers.
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When watching the short video, it’s hard not to feel G1 that develops pokes, pushes and sticks the robot with a stick. For a remarkable moment, the robot throws his hands up and seems to block a blow. Of course, I silently cheered the robot’s efforts. But I think I might be celebrating the wrong thing.
This is not a video about a poor, defenseless robot trying to protect itself. Unitree G1, even with its integrated AI, has no emotions. It literally can’t even feel the blows. It is not upset that someone hits it. Instead, the robot’s program to dance and remain vertical.
What is impressive here is that nothing, not even these blows, stops the Unitree G1; It just goes on to blow up.
Resilient robots are an important part of the humanoid robotics development time line. Such bots will be of a little use to us if they accidentally bump them on, they fall and then sit tight on their backs and whistle their arms and legs like Kafka-Esque beetles.
So many times when I win when I see someone “abusing” a robot, I have to remind myself that this is so. There can be no robotic revolution without such “victim ‘.
A dancing robot is fun. A robot that can remain vertically in the light of an attack is a game election.
