A humanoid robot competing in the weightlifting final at China's World Humanoid Robot Games collapsed head first onto a judges' table after failing to lift a weight, a moment that undercut Beijing's ambitious push to dominate the global robotics race. The black and white robot gripped the weight, quivered, and managed to hoist it above […] The post Weightlifting robot topples onto judges' table at China's cyborg Olympics, gets hauled off on a stretcher appeared first on American Almanac .
A humanoid robot competing in the weightlifting final at China's World Humanoid Robot Games collapsed head first onto a judges' table after failing to lift a weight, a moment that undercut Beijing's ambitious push to dominate the global robotics race. The black and white robot gripped the weight, quivered, and managed to hoist it above its head before the shaking worsened. It dropped the weight, malfunctioned, stumbled toward the judges' table, and collapsed directly onto it. Officials immediately halted the competition and declared the attempt over. Staff in red vests placed the robot on a stretcher and escorted it off the floor, the Daily Mail reported . No cause of the malfunction was given. No injuries to judges or staff were…Open
China’s humanoid robots are achieving superhuman feats of athleticism. But how that translates into the real world is still an open question, experts said.
A Chinese robotics company says its new humanoid prototype hit 28.3 mph on a test track, a speed that would top Usain Bolt's world record, though the claim remains unverified and the firm's robots have already injured people. Hangzhou-based Unitree posted video to X showing a bipedal machine it calls "Superman" sprinting along a track […] The post China's 'Superman' robot claims to outrun Usain Bolt — but nobody has verified it appeared first on American Almanac .
A Chinese robotics company says its new humanoid prototype hit 28.3 mph on a test track, a speed that would top Usain Bolt's world record, though the claim remains unverified and the firm's robots have already injured people. Hangzhou-based Unitree posted video to X showing a bipedal machine it calls "Superman" sprinting along a track at what the company says was 12.66 metres per second. If accurate, that figure edges past the 12.42 m/s mark Bolt set at the 2009 World Athletics Championship, a record no human has touched since. The robot also jumped roughly two metres straight up from a standing position, clearing the 1.7-metre standing vertical record held by American Christopher Spell since 2021. Unitree packaged the demonstration as a…Open
Unitree has unveiled a new "Superman" robot that can jump over 6.5 feet vertically. David Muir, who interviewed the company in May, reports on the race to lead in AI.
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AI:In a surreal display of the technological absurdity we are being forced to accept, a video from Portland Andy captures a robot in France engaging in a bizarre, human-like interaction by asking a man to "pull its finger." While the mindless entertainment machine and certain social media circles would have you view this as a harmless novelty or a cute quirk of modern engineering, it is actually another symptom of the creeping dehumanization being pushed upon society. As we see more reports regarding the rapid integration of autonomous machines into our daily lives—a trend the establishment press tries to package as convenient progress—the line between human connection and programmed mimicry continues to dissolve into something profoundly…Open
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