China’s Humanoid Robot Bubble Reaches Point Of Absurdity

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well im sure the need will come soon

Watching those robots run into that padded wall made me realize something. We could have gladiotorial battles again with these robots.

I believe the government subsidy will do the same thing to AI robotics what Chinese electric cars ended up doing to the rest of the global manufacturers. They were bad and kinda 'useless' at first but look where they are now. This approach of 'take a large bite first and chew later' will work for robotics too while the west grapples to move ahead.

This won't age well. And it is so typical Wall Street too. "Where are my profits?"

10 years from now Robots will be everywhere, and it is pretty clear Unitree and its investors will play a huge role in that.

Wall Street probalby won't.

nice slopfunda rofl.

if they really wasted all this money, then why r u so concerned

theyre automating shaolin monks so the temple is full of kung fu robots and the monks have to get jobs making iphones in the factories

Have you taken into account the progress that has happened over the years ?

Chinese Boston Dynamics?

My bet is that every single technology boils down to military advance in the end.
The first country that successfully create war ready drones and robots for very affordable prices (war is economy first and battle second), will have the kind of advantage that countries with tanks and machine guns had in the WW1 over their counter parts still using horses and swords or muskets.

Of course they want to make money, but this is a power showcase. In a few years China will start to do military stunts fully robotic.
Imagine the headline:
We have the most trained special ops team in the world, but instead of passing years and millions of dollars training one human, we can deploy a dozen of them in a month.

当你觉得一个公司生产的东西没有实际应用价值，政府却不断的砸钱，就把它和军事科技联系起来。宇树甚至都没有隐瞒这一点，尤其是机器狗。

I want that 500kg humanoid for a safari in africa

This is the true robot revolution:
while we're still scrubbing toilets and washing dishes, our promised abundance-creating robots are running races and kung fu fighting.

WTF is CNY, bad AI text to voice. Yuan or RMB.

Its very simple, any industrial use needs 4h nonstop shifts under full torque with minimal to repetitive motor displacement. NO ROBOT MOTOR CAN DO THIS DUE TO OVERHEATING! The demos are all very short, but all profits are industrial non-stop applications, otherwise operation cost is a loss.

You never mention issues with battery life and power needed to keep these monsters going all day…

Same has been said for every industry that China entered.

Give them 10 years.

Ah the classic "upload your mind to a robot/internet/Metaverse and achieve immortality". One tiny little problem with this scifi concept: Your clone may be come very long-lived. You stuck in your physical body continue to age and will eventually die. So it does not do anything for you in the physical body. There is no metaphysical soul or mind inside the brain you can transfer via wires.

One way to track these developments is through an examination of the number of (useful) patents being filed. A number of investment funds do this. Many of these patents may be shown to have more value in the future than now. I expect that even in 20-50 years, the majority of robots will not be humanoid. We don't need a humanoid robot to drive a taxi, perform basic surgical procedures, enter into hazardous environments, walk the dog, etc. Most "jobs" that humans perform now will be reconfigured (as occurred in auto frame welding) for specially designed robots, which will always do a better job more economically than a generally configured humanoid robot. As usually happens with new consumer technology, once we have fully AI driven humanoid sex robots, then the profits will roll in.

You need to consider that the robots will be typically used for urban warfare. And if that's what their model is, it makes more sense. The soldiers will become harder to replace at this point where bulk of the meat shield might be the humanoid robots with some soldiers following suit. I do not think it's about replacing humans in industries, and more about making robots which can be simulated by real humans, like how drones are being controlled. Now that's at least what I am thinkiny

06:08 You can see that the unitree promotional videos can simply be the product of typical CGI, with clearly fake buildings and trees in the background.

Cina has the Money and the Need for humanoid robots as well as the rest of the world, if would be foolish not to invest and get a foothold in the robot market. Humanoid robots are not probably going to be used in industry but will provide usefule services to households.

Zero utility now but what about in 10 years? They did the same thing with drones and they dominate 90% of that industry now.