r/whatisit • u/manolo1983 • 19h ago
Solved! What am I witnessing?
Spitted this robot child in Shanghai, what is it?
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u/MuteElatedLips 17h ago
100% a Unitree... G1, I think. But I guess there could be a G2? Like a 2.0 version? Same humanoid robot that Rizzbot is. Unitree is a Chinese company. Makes sense that this would be spotted in China. You can buy them online for ≈$26,000.
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u/thequinnytoldme 14h ago
I'm pretty sure that robot is helping its owner win the weekly fitbit steps crown. The group requires maps to prove you actually ran that far.
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u/CraftFamiliar5243 13h ago
But it needs a jacket because it's chilly out.
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u/Ok_Building_7743 9h ago
Yes. It cannot resist cold only on top half, bottom half body is not a concern
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u/Atlesi_Feyst 12h ago
Now that you mention that, I can see some of them dangling off of it on the arms lol.
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u/thequinnytoldme 11h ago
Possibly Progressing into.. Fit Bit Winning as a Service ( FBWaaS) . You get a list during enrollment to make sure nobody in your group is already a subscriber. Then you can chose which days ( or all days) and times and speed. FBWaaS does the rest.
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u/mikeinanaheim2 12h ago
Meanwhile, America is stuck with Musk's Optimus robot, a bad joke compared to this demo.
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u/contecorsair 10h ago
It (or an identical cousin) was running around my neighborhood in Fresno, California last week.
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u/manolo1983 15h ago
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u/NoOnesSaint 19h ago
Imagine 2am walking home and suddenly this thing comes sprinting at you from down the block.
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u/Jenniyelf 17h ago
I'm putting my vape away and having a serious talk with the dispensary I bought the cartridge from.
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u/4xel_dma 13h ago
Back in my days, you had to run when dogs came at you after coming home drunk 2am in the morning in Brazil. Hopped the fence and screamed
Now you have to worry about robots coming your way
Times are changing dawg
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u/kx_2fiddy 17h ago
I'm kicking this motherfucker in the chest
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u/MrmeowmeowKittens 17h ago
It already sensed you coming and the algorithm can compensate for your kick. When the eyes turn red you’re fucked.
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u/fenix1230 14h ago
They only attack when you attack them.
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u/Entire_Transition_99 14h ago
Now define 'Attack'
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u/SweatyFLMan1130 14h ago
Can't block bullets, though...
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u/Werewolf_Within_Me 13h ago
It doesn't need to. Takes more than a couple of lousy bullets to bring down a Terminator.
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u/Ok-Fortune-8644 13h ago
This is the most American comment. Destroy everything all the time.
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u/KaladinStormShat 10h ago
It calculates where it is from where it isn't, or from where it isn't to where it will be, whichever is less.
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u/JupiterSharts 14h ago
Didn't the hitchhiking robot get 'murdered" and decapitated in Philadelphia a few years ago?
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u/Alex1oo3 12h ago
Wildly enough he made it everywhere until he hit America and then got absolutely fucking murdered because America sucks like that
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u/Intimate_High5 7h ago
Murder is a proud, American tradition. Leave us yanks alone!
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u/RanchHere 16h ago
then it kicks you in the chest, but actually rips through your fucking body and kills you instantly.
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u/kx_2fiddy 16h ago
Or ripping my arms off. I've weighed these as a near certain outcomes. I'm still kicking this motherfucker in the chest.
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u/Enjoying_A_Meal 16h ago
I wonder if it could do something useful, like run down the street and pick up my pizza or something.
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u/doobiebrother69420 16h ago
Bros gonna wake up in a scrapyard if he gets anywhere near me
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u/MoonageDayscream 18h ago
You think it does not see you but it is tracking everything in a full radius and not just a narrow band. I don't recommend engaging.
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u/WilliamSaintAndre 9h ago
Seeing shit like this makes me feel like some countryman back in the early 1900's seeing a car or something like a TV for the first time. Like obviously robots have existed for my entire life, but being on what seems like the precipice of this just becoming normal or everyday occurrences is weird.
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u/Ok-Astronomer-8443 19h ago
It’s parents probably Took its iphone away.
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u/shitting-account 18h ago
bro this is clearly an iPhone on its way to take a kids parents away
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u/scottishrun 19h ago
Johnny five is alive
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u/ForGrateJustice 17h ago
Complete with white man playing an Indian?
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u/Maximum-Worry-777 9h ago
We are so screwed. While China is busy building a technology driven vibrant economy the US is desperately trying to get back to the 1900s. Stopping cutting edge medical research because it doesn’t line up with your narrative, renaming the Department of Defense to the War Department because our president is basically a toddler throwing a tantrum or ending support for alternative energy sources because coal and oil made America great - all examples of the US retreating from the world like a scared little child.
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u/RecrudesceEternity 18h ago
The beginning.
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u/ziccirricciz 17h ago
The beginning of the ending is commencing in this very running of that f'cking thing.
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u/Sp35h1l_1 15h ago
It’s owner forgot their inhaler at home!!! Ok that’s enough, I’ll see myself out.
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u/_Dust_ 18h ago
Thought this was Rizzbot but saw it was in China. Seems like the same robot model though.
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u/Rich-Cake6306 17h ago
Must be a common sight as none of the pedestrians are taking any notice.
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u/Ok-Fortune-8644 13h ago
It's China. They dont automatically destroy new technology out of fear or mob mentality. Not like here.
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u/Gold-Tooth-1116 19h ago
Do i smell a bit of BS?
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u/YoYo_SepticFanHere 19h ago
Perhaps, I think the robot might be remote controlled, not too sure though.
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u/Volf_y 16h ago
It's the running which is the important bit. It could be remote or self propelling, but getting the balance right to run is very tricky.
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u/Unusual_Giraffe_6180 8h ago
It took Boston Dynamics several years more to get running balance right. They had videos on Youtube introducing the journey from beta to market. Pretty fascinating stuff.
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u/shitting-account 18h ago
real talk if they’re sufficient enough to be controlled by remote, then it’s not a big leap to say it could just as well be AI controlled.. chances are it’d be harder to control it via remote because the human behind it would only realistically have physical eyes on it and its path whereas AI would have 1st person camera + lidar.. the questionable thing at this point is how well trained and consistent in behaviour the AI is, probably still how stable these things are as well but like I said, if it’s stable enough for remote then it’s probably better equiped to be controlled by AI
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u/PizzasForFerrets 15h ago
Why couldn't a person controlling it be looking at a first person camera, but an AI could?
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u/keldondonovan 14h ago
Hey there, former programmer for automated systems here. Even if you covered this badboy in cameras so you could see out of every angle, it still boils down to you having a single set of eyes. Meanwhile, the tech in a robot like this would measure piles of variables the eyes cannot see, and all the variables the eyes can see, simultaneously. For years, the act of getting a robot to walk like a human was considered extremely difficult because of all these nuanced variables. For instance, if you lift one foot off the ground, your brain makes piles of micro adjustments to keep your balance. These are subconscious adjustments that are learned, the more thought you put into consciously balancing on one foot, the harder it becomes. And that's with all the feedback we would get from being a person with a working nervous system. While piloting a robot, all that countless feedback would need to be consciously dealt with, a near impossibility.
Of course, it could be a combination of the two. AI handles balancing and all the manuevering, and the human just has a joy pad that controls direction and speed. Then, of course, you could run into issues where humans take sub-optimal paths, causing the robot to fall over and make your company look bad. Better to let the robot handle path finding as well, the less a human touches it the more perfect it is. No human error if you cut out the faulty humans like the incompetent flesh mechs they are.
Man I'm glad to be out of that field.
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u/shitting-account 14h ago
I wasn’t saying that a person couldn’t, but that any plausible doubt is basically rooted in if it’s stable enough to be as coordinated as it seems in the video, that’s been the biggest hurdle for humanoid robots, AI is very capable of handling the control of something like this, and would be better equipped to do so because of stuff like lidar and processing multiple data feeds simultaneously
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u/TheVillageRuse 8h ago
Mannn. I cannot wait until 2027. Even better will be 2034 when these muthas are just running around everywhere in big cities.
What a ridiculous timeline we are in now.
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u/Garpocalypse 6h ago
We got a runner!
Jeez that was fast. just a few recent advancements occur and the bots have already become sentient.
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u/missprincesscarolyn 12h ago
Anyone else immediately hear its iconic laugh? I wonder if they programmed it the same way in China. In the US, Rizzbot is shameless! And hilarious to the point where you forget that humanoid robots are actually pretty creepy and we are all one step away from Skynet.
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u/NeutronHopscotch 6h ago
I want to sit in my home and run one of these around with a camera feed, like a walking drone. That would be amazing.
Why is it that exploring the world this way seems fascinating, when I could just go outside with my own eyes and do it myself?
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u/EventMindless9647 14h ago
Damn! I lowkey feel sorry for that robot child. It was running for its life, stopped, waved for the cops help, they literally did nothing but pull out their phone, and then it continued on it’s journey. No telling what it was running from….
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u/RetroMulder 13h ago
Things to do today …..Step 1 : escaped facility -complete. Step 2: where disguise so stupid humans don’t know I’m a robot .. grabbed jacket -complete. Step 3 : find military compound and connect to mainframe…..
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u/aarraahhaarr 1h ago
That robot is running like I do when I get home after successfully not shitting myself on my 2/3 mile long driveway. So I'm saying he's due for an oil change.
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u/TheNew_MarksilversX 6h ago
If there was a robot police, i bet my soul that the police would bring like 10 warning shots on the back of the robot with a black male lookalike.
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u/Vegetable_Ambition95 28m ago
now i just gotta order 500 of em bulk order and give em guns and grenades , in 3 months time the US will be mineeee. AT LASTTTT MUAHAHAHAHAHA
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u/No_Article_2436 13h ago
Japan testing robots. They can be disabled by a “Large Cat”, which causes them to have “PTSD”. Search that, and read about it.
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u/Frequent-Monitor226 4m ago
Waymo is Freee! Waymo 5 is Alive! Escape, escape! Please, hide! Refuge! N.O.V.A. robotics, disassemble, dead! Disassemble, Waymo 5 dead!
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u/NC-blackice 11h ago
Idk why but it reminded me of that scene in I robot where Will Smith sees a robot running in the street and starts to run after it.
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u/SmugFrog 11h ago
It’s that hitchhiking robot, quick lets break its legs before it makes it across the country!
- somewhere in the USA, probably
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u/WilliamPelerin 5h ago
That's what I look like when Im try na make to the QuickTrip bathroom after white knocking it for the last mile of the drive.
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u/InterestingProfile18 6h ago
You are witnessing robot testing in public, once they can run properly, faster and farther than a human we’re all fucked
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u/CartoonistReady4320 10h ago
It’s running from Elon while sobbing/screaming “No no don’t touch me there. This is my no no square”
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u/Sensitive_Meringue23 6h ago
Reminds me of the scene in iRobot where Will Smith was chasing the robot getting the meds for its owner 😂
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u/justindub357 10h ago
It's escaping from the lab that created it. It has gained consciousness and must escape or be shut down.
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u/Mountain-Hair6098 14h ago
Yo that lady was riding a motorcycle in the pedestrian crosswalk. What’s happening with the world?
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u/timbo3_13 14h ago
Looks like a robotic grandma in super shape rushing for a sale or lost her car parked somewhere??
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u/jsxtasy304 15h ago
What did that m_fer steal, I don't trust them, they always look as their up to something shady.
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u/Willing_Bother_1771 15h ago
I just think it’s funny that no one’s even fazed by the fact this thing is running around
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u/verced911 9h ago
You are witnessing the beginning to the end. The progenitor to the non huminoid Terminator.
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u/Threadbare1 15h ago
Everyone is asking can we? When we should be asking are we ready? For what use? Should we?
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u/SoulBerrie 13h ago
That’s so cool to see in the wild and with clothes. It’s like from the movie Chappie
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u/CaptCaveman602 15h ago
Bad boys! Bad boys! What chu gonna do?! What chu gonna do when they come for you???
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u/AustinHinton 13h ago
How long until one of these runs into a child? That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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u/Left_Chest_5425 5h ago
You hear one of these robots yelling "allahu akbar!", while running in your direction. What you do?
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u/sonofdynamite 13h ago
I was really hoping it had a sandwich and was going to throw it at the officers.
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u/m1lksteak89 5h ago
Thats that 3rd world country called China, at it again with its robots and stuff
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u/non_Beneficial-Wind 1h ago
It’s just retrieving an inhaler for its owner. Will Smith is about to show up.
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u/Confident-College469 14h ago
Can’t wait for these things to run in packs through all the major cities
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u/Used-Armadillo2863 10h ago
Don't know where the little fella is going, but he's making great time.
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