A robot has no right to harm a human, at least according to the late science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. It’s a rule that the EngineAI T800 robot may have overlooked, as evidenced by the “battle robot” violently kicking the company’s CEO in a now-viral video.
Apparently, this moment of running, slamming and kicking in the doors of the humanoid robots is a moment very similar to when a crowd of dust-covered humanoids hug you securely.
Behind the scenes footage from the EngineAI T800 shoot – a direct response to CG accusations. – YouTube
This behind-the-scenes production (see above) appeared to show EngineAI developers filming the robot’s full human-scale capabilities.
However, these Chinese robot manufacturers have a habit of testing even more (perhaps too far). You may remember Iron, a humanoid robot that was so realistic that the company felt the need to cut away the synthetic skin to prove that there were no humans underneath.
But the proof of EngineAI’s success was real… er… real success.
Whew!
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EngineAI therefore gave CEO Zhao Tongyang a lot of support Let the T800 give you a good, cool and, dare I say it, scary impression. cut to the central part. Tongyang naturally flew away, although he seemed more or less unharmed.
I found these videos just a few days after seeing the new Figure AI and Tesla Optimus updates. If the movies are to be believed, both robots can now walk like humans, at speeds of up to 10 kilometers per hour.
To put this into perspective, most humans can run at this speed (fortunately, no robot has yet been seen to reach the spectacular 23 mph speed of Olympic athlete Usain Bolt).
Figure 03 vs. Tesla Optimus: Which Robot Works Most Like a Human? – YouTube
The video comparing Figure 03 and the Optimus Gang is particularly interesting because it shows the two humanoids running a real race. In short, for a split second both feet leave the ground.
Optimus’ overall running style is more natural. I imagine the training (or animation) was probably based more on real people and less on a programmer guessing what the body would look like for an entire race.
It can’t be good.
So yes, we have robots chasing us now, so they might be able to give us a good, hard kick. Maybe we deserve it. Finally, there are countless bot abuse videos, where developers attempt to boost, subvert, or disrupt bot activity, all under the guise of testing.
It’s hard not to feel sorry for these robots, especially when we anthropomorphize them, as humans often do. They are not human, but the more they look like us and act like us, the more we attribute human emotions to them.
These videos turn that equation on its head. EngineAI in particular seems committed to creating a robot that can defend itself, although its goal, at least for now, is not to fight us. I actually think this is largely a publicity stunt for the company’s upcoming Robot Boxing Match on December 24th. This battle follows a previous series of mecha battles that took place in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in eastern China.
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These games were mostly forgettable due to the poor quality of the robot battles. Most of the boxing robots were child-sized and there were many failures and falls.
If it were real, the T800 would seem like a much more capable and dangerous fighter, kind of an example of our wildest dystopian fear of the robots of the future.
It is a mystery to me why roboticists are now inventing dangerous robots that run, kick and bite instead of what we want (robots that can empty the dishwasher in five minutes).
All these EngineAI T800 videos may turn out to be fake, but the intentions are real and the opposite of what we want in our inevitable robotic future.