Robotics

[expectation]

Last year these robots were only used for Comedic purposes as dance group figure out how to use them. Now it looks like they got their bots to adapt well into their own roles. If you go back and compare between the 2025 and today, 2026 - its quite a difference.

 

[It_Is_My_Time]

Great display. Imagine thinking a AR-15 stands a chance against an army of these things.

 

[scorpion]

I don't believe we have a dedicated robotics thread, so I'll drop this here.

 

[Thomas More]

I don't believe we have a dedicated robotics thread, so I'll drop this here.

My brother just texted me this video 30 minutes ago. He was only semi joking when he said China will use these to invade the US!

 

[TruckDriver9]

I don't believe we have a dedicated robotics thread

Now we have

 

[Northumber]

The progress on this is wild.

The part where they do a live demo and use AI to train what looks like hundreds of robots in a simulation to copy jumping jacks from the newscaster is crazy:

 

[expectation]

Last year these robots were only used for Comedic purposes as dance group figure out how to use them. Now it looks like they got their bots to adapt well into their own roles. If you go back and compare between the 2025 and today, 2026 - its quite a difference.

Wang Xingxing, Unitree CEO, in the thick of training for the spring gala with his robots.

 

[Northumber]

It's not hard to guess where this is going.

Moya Biometric Robot Has 92% Human Walking Accuracy & Body Heat​

Moya Biometric Robot Has 92% Human Walking Accuracy & Body Heat

China's Moya Robot achieves 92% human-like walking accuracy with biomimetic design, targeting healthcare markets at $9,000 by late 2026.

tech.yahoo.com

 

[Read_Lives_of_Saints]

It's not hard to guess where this is going.

Moya Biometric Robot Has 92% Human Walking Accuracy & Body Heat​

Moya Biometric Robot Has 92% Human Walking Accuracy & Body Heat

China's Moya Robot achieves 92% human-like walking accuracy with biomimetic design, targeting healthcare markets at $9,000 by late 2026.

tech.yahoo.com

What a horror. None of the future dystopian movies prepared me for the depth of depravity of this genuine simulated human.

"simulates empathy"

"simulates love, but feels nothing"

Cherry 2000 (1986)

 

[Northumber]

Cherry 2000 (1986)

What is this gem of a movie!!? The eighties were great.

 

[Read_Lives_of_Saints]

What is this gem of a movie!!? The eighties were great.

It was never well known, but has survived as a prescient oddball of things to come, starring Melanie Griffith before her breakout roles in Stormy Monday (1986) and, more significantly, Working Girls (1988), sharing the lead with Harrison Ford.