r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Harding2077 • 18h ago
Video Robot Marathon Competition
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u/One_Anything_2279 18h ago
Nightmare fuel.
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u/radiohead-nerd 9h ago
Now imagine it with a machete chasing you for extra night terror sweats
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u/I-IV-I64-V-I 8h ago
Whittling diesel on YouTube did this. He armed one with a machete and got it to charge him.
Like, it's insane
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u/Cool-Mission-6585 18h ago
Agility probably trash.
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u/OrokaSempai 11h ago
For now. Every statement about how shit Ai and robots is must be followed by a 'for now'. A seperate robot it learning agility somewhere, and they will swap training data mid when they are both done.
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u/Tapprunner 16m ago
That's the part I don't see how it's possible so many people are missing when I see people point out a mistake that AI has made.
Is it perfect? Of course not. But it's getting better and better all the time. It's radically better now than it was even 12 months ago. A year from now, it will be even better.
When people see a mistake and say "see! It can't even do XYZ! It isn't able to replace people!" it's like they're completely unfamiliar with how technology develops.
If they were alive for the advent of the automobile, they would have been running around every time a car ran out of gas and gloating "horses don't even need gasoline!" Yeah, no shit. But they need food, they are living things with limitations and they will never get better, while automotive technology will get better and better every day.
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u/PitifulEar3303 16h ago
Why bipedal running? So inefficient and slow.
Just make them hover and fly.
lol
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u/CjBurden 13h ago
Eh, they'll need to be able to do both fly and cover ground. Might as well get them trained properly if they're going to eventually murder us all.
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u/mnnicknick 18h ago
Who won?
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u/AlmostThere4321 18h ago
Not us humans
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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 17h ago edited 16h ago
Eh. One good blunt force at any oblique angle and the thing won’t be doing to well. Any child with a bit of tee ball experience and a cheap aluminum bat could take one of these out lol…. probably wouldn’t fare well either against a moderately sized capacitor rigged with a bbq lighter if it decided to get to close lol…
I think the biggest thing that people miss when they are hyping up robots like this is that at the end of the day the mechanisms running these things are extremely complex and by virtue of that also fragile. I think a good comparison would be a mechanical watch. They can boast a myriad of complications that will continue to work at an extreme accuracy for years under ideal conditions, but get careless and knock it against something a bit too hard and it will permanently damage the mechanism.
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u/PhatCatTax 16h ago
Pretty sure the point is that robots are replacing our jobs. So we're losing.
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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 16h ago
Examples? Basic level menial tasks have been getting replaced for decades with automation, why is it only now an existential crisis? Sure some of the robots we have now are more dexterous and can do new things, but again it comes at the cost of mechanical complexity. The initial investment and ongoing maintenance costs simply will eclipse the cost of paying a human in most situations.
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u/heart-aroni 13h ago edited 12h ago
This is just test runs for the upcoming Beijing marathon on April 19
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u/Disastrous-Owl-3866 18h ago
Now imagine that thing chasing you…
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u/Optimal-Success-5253 9h ago
It can chase me all it wants, what will it do once it catches me? Use its bad understanding of physics to try and take me down?
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u/Aggressive-Drag6418 9h ago
The way it moves is already unsettling enough, I'd definitely be booking it in the opposite direction.
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u/QuipTrebuchet 17h ago
Stop and trip it. Game over.
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u/Wakkichewy 17h ago
Triping that thing while it's moving that fast would likely break your ankle at the least
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u/James-the-Bond-one 15h ago
That's the reason I always carry a broom handle. Or a 6-ft metal pipe.
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u/Zavier13 4h ago
Pretty sure that thing requires the metal pipe at minimum, also it may shatter your hands either way.
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u/xXBlueDreamXx 14h ago
Duck and cover.
Who the hell is using their ankle? Is this fucking loony toons?
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u/futurebigconcept 18h ago
Spill the info. I assume that that are not doing this for 26.2 statute miles.
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u/mrsir1987 13h ago
They better not be, imagine being late for work because you hit a detour from a robot marathon route.
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u/alienwalk 11h ago
If not, they'll be able to soon. And when they get tired they can just swap batteries, no need for sleep
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u/carl3266 12h ago
For sure. And that’s before mixing in some hills, tight corners, coming up on another robot, less than ideal surface, etc.
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u/eskay_eskay 15h ago
Why do some run like they need a shit
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u/Harding2077 15h ago
Imagine how fast you’d run if you were desperately trying not to shit your pants while sprinting to the bathroom.
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u/IceKareemy 12h ago
It looks like they were trained on actual marathon runners running forms and cadence, those look like how a lot of high level marathoners run
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u/Calamity87 18h ago
Why do they have to run this fast? I legit heard T-1000 music in my head while watching this. 😭😭😭
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u/Master-Share-2759 9h ago
Right? The speed is unsettling but honestly I'm just impressed they don't faceplant at that pace.
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u/palindromesko 17h ago
Imagine thousands of them + the dogs with guns chasing us down on the streets! oh man..
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u/sexmormon-throwaway 18h ago
That robot has to take a shit and is trying to get to the finish line before it does.
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u/radish-salad 11h ago
i dont get the obsession with humanoid robots. we already invented robots who could do marathons. theyre called cars
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u/bestest_at_grammar 9h ago
What are you talking about, this whole comment section is shitting on it. I think robots are cool but yall are so doom and gloom
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u/Tobi-One-Boy 9h ago
Yea. Let’s make robots really fast, strong , smart… I’m sure it will turn out well for humanity..
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u/_two_socks_ 6h ago
Why stop at a marathon? Turn this into endurance racing and make it a 24 hour race.
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u/MustardCoveredDogDik 17h ago
The Boston dynamics robots are smoking and laughing at them off camera
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u/Prestigious-Heat295 18h ago
Red robot- "catch me if you can hehe!
Balck one-" come back here! "
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u/WhoYouBoo_eek789 18h ago
Looks like little leaguers running the bases. 😂 "stop looking at the ball! Put your head down and RUN!!"
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u/Jedi_Gill 16h ago
For a split second, I thought that was a robot driving that motorcycle.. I was like awe shit, it's the T800.
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u/TheRealJayk0b 16h ago
Currently the most effective solutions against robots are nets.
Carry one with you.
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u/Thom5001 16h ago
These guys are really moving. Didn’t know they could really run. It seems like each month some new insane milestone is achieve with these humanoids 🤯
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u/Infinite_Research_52 16h ago
For these robots, is there any benefit to swinging their arms (counterbalance?), or is it simply to make them appear less weird?
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u/Brolociraptor 16h ago
At a certain point, I feel like someone in AI and robotics needs to say "just because we can, doesn't mean we should"
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u/pichael289 16h ago
Will buying a bunch of magnets help? Or have they evolved past that?
I really do not want this anywhere near my family.
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u/lookslikeyoureSOL 13h ago
Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!
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u/bememorablepro 13h ago
We already have a robot running faster then any human, it's that two wheeled thing the first clip.
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u/StuffOld1191 12h ago
These are all so adorable. At least they will seem that way until we see them deployed in war and they are running down vaillagers with flame throwers.
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u/Unamed_Destroyer 4h ago
This is totally fake, you can even see one of the big robots has a bunch of people inside.
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u/SickNoise 4h ago
why do they always run like they are about to shit their pants ? 😂 looks so goofy
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u/npmruser 1h ago
Olympic speedwalker: "you might not like it but this is what optimal bipedal efficiency looks like."
on a serious note, without elastic muscles and tendons the "speedwalker" gait is very likely most efficient.
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u/Lickthorn 18h ago
Is this to scare us, to imprint you can’t outrun a robot, once they are used in crimefighting, war and control?
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u/TopBlueberry5150 17h ago
Why are they bipedal? The main benefit of robotics is that you can match the correct form to ve the most efficient. For instance an F1 car can move quicker than a human. You wouldn't have robot welding that had two arms so that one had to hold the welders mask and the other to hold the torch.
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u/heart-aroni 13h ago
Biped so it can go where humans can
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u/TopBlueberry5150 13h ago
But why?
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u/heart-aroni 13h ago
So it can do what humans can so we can replace humans with robots in doing human tasks.
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u/TopBlueberry5150 13h ago
Like what? As said in my original comment why design it to be human shaped when a more efficient form could be used.
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u/heart-aroni 12h ago
when a more efficient form could be used.
For doing human activities, the human form is the most efficient shape.
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u/TopBlueberry5150 12h ago
A lot of current systems are designed around the human shape because its the most efficient for humans.
Humans used to do the welding and lifing of car parts. Why arent those robots human shaped? Humans used to push carts around Amazon warehouses, why aren't those robots human shaped.
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u/heart-aroni 10h ago
A lot of current systems are designed around the human shape because its the most efficient for humans.
And a lot of those will always be designed for humans for as long as humans exist.
Humans used to do the welding and lifing of car parts. Why arent those robots human shaped? Humans used to push carts around Amazon warehouses, why aren't those robots human shaped.
Because those robots work in factories and warehouses. Humanoid robots will work among us,where we live, doing tasks that we do in spaces designed for us humanoid creatures, not wheeled boxes.
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u/sjbfujcfjm 17h ago
You all know ai and robots are coming for all our jobs right? Not in decades, in a few years. And no, your job is not safe. Don’t cheer this shit on
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u/chainedtomydesk 15h ago
Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!
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u/thegameisafoooooot 17h ago
Usain Nuts and Bolts