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Unitree Robot Off-Road
- game_the0ry 2y agoAnyone else get a sense of anxiety at the thought of a machine gun attached to one of those things?
- grogenaut 2y agoI was picturing a horde of them streaming down a hill with guns towards you yes.
- tcdent 2y ago> In September 2023, the United States Marine Corps used an M72 LAW anti-tank rocket launcher fixed to a Go1 robotic dog during tactical training at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitree_Robotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitree_Robotics
- ortusdux 2y agoHobbyists are making drones that can go 0-180mph in 2 seconds top speeds of 300+mph. Anxiety all around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wThmg8Ezm9w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wThmg8Ezm9w
- r00fus 2y agoThe country where Unitree is based has not been in a major war in the past 30-40 years. Sure companies based in the western world can take inspiration from this but given the US-China conflict apparently in the works, it seems the advanced tech would be on the Chinese side.
- erwincoumans 2y agoLike this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlDLwTsRHtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlDLwTsRHtU Ghost Robotics has been working with the US Army putting weapons on their robot quadruped for several years now. Unitree is ahead of the game with their hardware+software ecosystem though.
- Yoric 2y agoYes, but not necessarily more so than at the thought of a machine gun in the hands of a human being.
- jmugan 2y agoWow! This is beyond my expectations.
- rapsey 2y agoChina is in the forefront of drones, EVs, batteries, robotics and solar. It can't really be considered much behind the US on AI. I think one day soon the US is going to get a rude awakening of being behind on tech. Probably once they come up with 4nm or less chips and that is likely not far off.
- linotype 2y agoEventually they’ll run out of things to copy, then progress will slow. Ultimately it’s a net positive if you’re interested in technological progress to have more people working on these problems.
- rapsey 2y agoAll the areas I listed they are in the forefront and not copying anybody. You are living in the past if you think China is incapable of coming up with new tech. Their stem workforce dwarfes the US and their universities are just as good.
- linotype 2y agoIf you don’t think there is continuous industrial espionage happening you’re being naive. For instance: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/02/27/asml_china_data_spying/ https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/02/27/asml_china_data_s...
- rapsey 2y agoAnd if you think everything is a copy from the west you are being naive.
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- tailfra 2y agoRegarding the AI part, there are a lot of chinese open-source LLMs and VLMs out there, and they are really great!
- smusamashah 2y agoThis looks better than Robo dog in the sense that it's being robot, not an animal/human replica, using those wheels. That's how a robot should be. And it looks fantastic with those moves. Video does not say if those moves were made by a human behind remote control or was the robot doing it by itself? It will be many times more impressive if the robot was avoiding collisions by itself.
- ofrzeta 2y ago"Part of the function requires human operation or secondary development to realize, different configurations vary" - https://www.unitree.com/b2-w https://www.unitree.com/b2-w
- pjs_ 2y agoHard to believe this is real but for sure it is -- incredible results
- hedgehog 2y agoI love the "please do not imitate dangerous actions" caption as the guy climbs on to the robot, who could have one of these and not try riding it?
- digitallis42 2y agoSeveral moments look like CGI, particularly with how the dust behaves. It's getting hard to believe video like this.
- Havoc 2y agoThere is definitely something uncanny about it, but I suspect its frame generation & sharpening
- nikolay 2y agoChina slowly but surely is becoming #1 in everything.
- ofrzeta 2y agoThat looks incredibly impressive. However I wonder how long/often you can do stunts like that until the wheel legs need significat maintenance.