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Impressive … and scary. Why is it that this company is moving so fast when others like Boston Dynamics don’t seem to have made much progress?
by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Impressive … and scary. Why is it that this company is moving so fast when others like Boston Dynamics don’t seem to have made much progress?
- wffurr 2mo agoYou are assuming this thing is real and not just a web page.
- rlt 2mo agoUnitree is a huge well known company. You think they'd fake this?
- cyanydeez 2mo agothey're a chinese company and this is a VC funded western company; so that's half the answer. The other half is yes, of course, any company will fake it till they make it. But Unitree is definitely making robots.
- solarkraft 2mo agoThe demo images look AI generated, so I can understand the impression that this is vaporware. The demo videos look very real to me however.
- serf 2mo agois using a prototype firmware or hardware platform faking it when you're showing exclusive prototype capabilities and trying to pass them off as reproducible by the production unit? unitree has done this consistently.
- fragmede 2mo agoWhat does unitree G1 do as a demo that it can't do once you bought one?
- fooker 2mo agoNot that you have much reason to believe a stranger on the internet, but I have seen this in person. Not doing acrobatics like the marketing video of course, just doing mundane things like going from point A to point B.
- numpad0 2mo agoThere's no use for these robots(even militarily). It's very high tech, but that's it.
- grumbel 2mo agoVeho[1] is experimenting[2] with similar kinds of robots for package delivery. [1] https://www.shipveho.com/rivr https://www.shipveho.com/rivr [2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d6jU_4XjkTU https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d6jU_4XjkTU
- throw310822 2mo agoYou wait until they mount them with a chainsaw.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2mo agoOr five. One on each leg and one ON THE FACE! And then a tiny little one on the bum like a cutesy tail <3
- walrus01 2mo agoYou say that now, but wait until one of these is charging at you across a field with a QBZ-95 strapped to its back and a 1024 resolution thermal sensor.
- numpad0 2mo agoI'd be more scared of MQ-9 dropping a JDAM or R9X on my head than this thing running around. They're proven to be undetectable to human targets. That's scarier to me than this thing running around catching wires and bushes.
- rasz 2mo agomq9 ~$20m price tag will buy a LOT of robodogs with machine guns able to exterminate disproportionally more people per $ and time unit.
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- saturn8601 2mo agoChinese work ethic driven by overproduction of STEM majors leading to 25% youth unemployment...also they probably stole a lot of the fundamental stuff that was super hard to produce but easy to copy and build on top of. On the other side: Years of VC focusing on the next great app to make you some cooked eggs instead of investing in companies operating in the physical world.
- bijowo1676 2mo agoI often hear about "muh china stealing", two questions come to mind: 1. how could they steal something that western companies dont even have yet? 2. for more fundamental stuff, western companies did transfer knowledge themselves by moving factories to China, in exchange for decades of access to China market and exorbitant profits they earned. Where exactly is "supposed stealing" in unitree ?
- 55555 2mo agoThe answer to both your questions, and the poster's obvious implication, is that somehow they stole information from Boston Dynamics. (I'm not saying I believe that.) Seems like they must've stolen the information at the exact point in time when advances in AI made these physical robots much more easy for anyone to engineer without theft...
- londons_explore 2mo agoSteal info from 10 different companies, and combine it to make a product better than any of the 10 individual products copied. It's basically the patent problem.
- bijowo1676 2mo agoUS patents do not have extra-territorial power, meaning US patent means nothing outside its borders, unless there are mutual reciprocity agreements (mostly between US and its vassal puppet states). To my knowledge, China has never been caught infringing on US patents on US soil. A lot of Chinese innovations are simply orders of magnitude better than any US alternative, for example TikTok's algorithm and TikTok as a short-video social network. So please answer my question, how could China steal anything that either 1) Western companies explicitly granted as part of Joint Venture corporation, 2) Western companies havent even developed themselves, and at best, only possess inferior version, generation or two behind the state of the art? in IP realm, India for example forcefully nationalizes all pharmaceutical IP and produces generics of brand name drugs for its internal market (1970 Patents Act)