r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • 12d ago

Video Another crash during practices ahead of the Worldwide Humanoid Robot Games

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u/Sharp_Glassware 12d ago

The way it sparked like that after being nearly split in half was very dramatic

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u/lustyphilosopher 12d ago

And the guy going to get it turning back like he knows it's fucked. I've seen this exact scene play out before

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u/ascarymoviereview 12d ago

There goes $10000 is what he was thinking

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u/squired 12d ago

Nah, he'll be alright. They can patch that up. It won't be free, but likely closer to dozens rather than thousands of dollars. Even the power pack is likely custom, so rather cheap even if they need to replace some cells; assuming labor isn't included.

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u/Competitive_Travel16 AGI 2027 ▪️ ASI 2029 6d ago

...and assuming the lithium isn't ignited.

To be fair, we were promised robots that emit a shower of sparks when damaged (just keep the fiery rocks out of consoles, please.)

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u/KerbodynamicX 11d ago

It wont be that expensive. It's a structural component failure, and the spark comes from wires being shorted together. Raplacing the broken componenet and re-attach the wires is all that's needed for repair.

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u/AngelBryan 12d ago

When human lose their shoes you know they are dead, with robots is sparkles.

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u/QstnMrkShpdBrn 12d ago

I kicked them off in a fit of joy.

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u/gormlesser 12d ago

Human sparkles are a bit more liquidy and staining. 

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u/FragrantExcitement 11d ago

I have seen it play out before... on reddit.

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u/electriccomputermilk 12d ago

If this was a movie I would have thought it looked fake and cheesy

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 12d ago

I mean why is that wall there in the first place?

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u/CarrierAreArrived 12d ago

probably because of the first crash you must've missed

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u/Competitive_Travel16 AGI 2027 ▪️ ASI 2029 6d ago

Obstacle avoidance the same color as the track, apparently lidar was too uncertain at such a high gait.

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u/alexzoin 12d ago edited 11d ago

Yeah and fake looking. It even has a cheesy electric short sound. I would be surprised if this is unedited.

Edit: Given the video showing multiple angles I don't think it's edited.

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u/altasking 12d ago

Might be hard to believe, but sparks actually make a sound like that.

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u/ARES_BlueSteel 12d ago

At my work we had the wires in a machine get damaged, and when they shorted out they shot some sparks out and made a sound similar to this. It looked like something out of a movie. I was like “huh, I guess they actually do that”.

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u/gedbarker 12d ago

I was once in the sound and lighting box of a theatre when a huge transformer routing power for the building arced. Lightning passed behind my head and grounded through other equipment. The whole building went dark. With a huge bang.

The noise and the light were something else. People watching through the window into the box thought I'd bought it. Luckily I wasn't the most efficient route to ground.

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u/slowgojoe 12d ago

We in strange times where the average person can’t even tell you what electrical wires sparking sounds like.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 12d ago

Why is that strange? Would it be better if people were regularly exposed to shorting high voltage electricity?

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u/slowgojoe 11d ago

The “strangeness” came from me realizing that these sounds are no longer common place, and that people under around the age of 25 or so, would indeed not regularly experience that sound. And I hadn’t noticed it was really absent until I read this comment. I’m old. I apologize.

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u/kaityl3 ASI▪️2024-2027 11d ago

Like the floppy disc being the save icon

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u/Competitive_Travel16 AGI 2027 ▪️ ASI 2029 6d ago

No you're good. FX techs for film take a lot of care to try to make sounds authentic. It's just as you say, not a lot of people are familiar with those sounds anymore.

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u/slothfullyserene 12d ago

Wires are those things that used to connect things?

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u/Procrasturbating 12d ago

All the motors are going brushless. Used to be drills sparked while you used em. I still have a brushed corded drill. Ol’ Sparky.

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u/noiseguy76 12d ago

Just as well. That sound is usually followed by an electrical fire.

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u/ILoveBigSexyThighs2 12d ago

Or just a tripped breaker or blown fuse.

Most lithium/rechargeable batteries even have their own overcurrent protection that kick in if there’s a short and automatically reset, among other features.

So it’s usually not followed by an electrical fire. But sometimes.

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u/nothis AGI by 2030 but we'll be disappointed 12d ago

Are we?

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u/crashtested97 12d ago

Yes. Every time you see a person over 50 years old they have almost certainly jump started a car, charged a car battery, tripped a physical circuit breaker, shorted out an electrical socket, welded, etc etc.

It is strange for us that entire generations have been so sheltered from these seemingly fundamental experiences that not only have they never seen such a thing, when they see it happen they immediately think it must be fake.

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u/alexzoin 12d ago

Loud enough to be heard from this phone's perspective? It's plausible but I am leaning more towards it being fake.

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u/zero0n3 12d ago

Yes they are that loud and easy to pick up

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u/KutteKrabber 12d ago

Tbh I dont find the short sound to be cheesy at all. It's not even close to the classic bzzzt hollywood a la Raiden thundergod sound. To me it sounds realistic, like it actually shorted.

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u/wxtrails 12d ago

A DC short, yes. The classic Hollywood 60hz "bzzzt" is indicative of an AC arc.

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u/TheOriginalAcidtech 12d ago

Have you EVER used high voltage DC? Im guessing you have NOT.

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u/Deliteriously 12d ago

It did look like movie effects, but the guy running to check on it changed his mind pretty quick when it happened. It takes a lot of volatile batteries to make 150 lbs of metal into Ussein bolt so he probably thought it was going to catch fire.

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u/modbroccoli 11d ago

Jesus christ kid

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u/qroshan 12d ago

How the fuck does moronic comments like this gets so many upvotes?

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u/alexzoin 11d ago

Sorry.

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u/DigitalerEsel 12d ago

Hopefully the robot doc knows hip replacement.

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u/Crazy_AD124 12d ago

The way that dude changed his direction like no iam not touching that

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u/NoWorries3939 12d ago

The way that dude just materialized the remote from thin air

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u/Jalen_1227 12d ago

Stop, it's real.

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u/GeorgiaWitness1 :orly: 12d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT9IgrDcur5FpWLMyY

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u/blade740 12d ago

This makes a lot of sense. The sparks are there for when these things transition to fighting in a gladiator arena.

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u/Chrisit0 12d ago

Usain Volt

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u/atli123 12d ago

Take my upvote and get out.

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u/mrbadface 12d ago

Sparks! A glorious fall

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u/ActuatorOutside5256 12d ago

The automaton chasing me after I posted that I want a living wage on Reddit.

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u/BrennusSokol ACCELERATE 12d ago

I don’t want a wage. I want post scarcity

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u/sumguysr 11d ago

Post scarcity is for billionaires, not you.

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u/SupermarketIcy4996 11d ago

What's your aim here.

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u/BitterAd6419 12d ago

Crash & burn

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u/Informal_Act146 12d ago

Imagine getting chased by one of these 

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u/LiterallyInSpain 11d ago

Just step left a bit.

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u/Canon_M50 7d ago

And it has a knife

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u/Extreme-Edge-9843 12d ago

/watchpeopledieinside when he turns around, he knows that's going to be annoying to fix lol

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u/kittenTakeover 12d ago

Anyone know the rules for this competition? I assume it has weight and size limits?

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u/BoredBSEE 12d ago

The sparks at the end! 10/10

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u/Smol_Cyclist 12d ago

It died doing what it loved

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u/WordsHappenedHere 12d ago

The fact that we even have machines doing this is impressive. Despite the malfunction

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u/bazpoint 11d ago

Genuinely impressive how close it comes to recovering the bounce off the wall with a backwards run, rather than just instantly hitting the deck.

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u/WordsHappenedHere 11d ago

Yea this is all just very cool to me. My god imagine how far these robots will advance over the next 10 years. In 20 years everyone will have their own personal robots.

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u/lastWallE 11d ago

everyone…but not the poor or even normal folks.

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u/WordsHappenedHere 11d ago

Poor will get them on payment plans like everyone else finances everything in this country. It will be like a car payment.

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u/caughtinthought 1d ago

Your view is.. very optimistic

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u/fleranon 12d ago edited 11d ago

The sparks and the sounds are almost... too perfect? Is this real? Pretty sure it's AI. The remote in the end seems to suddenly appear? But sometimes I'm dead wrong in that assessment

I can't tell anymore. Like at all

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u/modbroccoli 11d ago edited 11d ago

i don't understand you people. it's ai because it looks fake. it's ai because it looks real. how about just some common sense? why would anyone fake this, it's an event currently happening and this is all before the contests actually start. of course anything with enough electricity to send that much mass moving at the velocity can short with sparks. of course sparks sound like sparks.

You cannot just assume everything is fake without some cause.

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u/Bierculles 12d ago edited 12d ago

Never mind, it's AI, the dude who walks towards the robot suddenly summons a remote into his hands.

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u/tongkat-jack 12d ago

Good catch!

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u/superschmunk 12d ago

Its AI

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u/stklaw 12d ago

It's not AI

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u/sklerson89 12d ago

Is this AI?

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u/zero0n3 12d ago

No. People saying it’s AI are dumb.

That’s how sparks sound and look.

These things have large power banks with the amperage and voltage to spark like that.

Also; there is no reason to make an AI version of this humanoid failing, and the event they are at is legit.

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u/Grouchy-Channel-7502 12d ago

What about the radio that suddenly appears in the guy's hands?

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u/LookIPickedAUsername 12d ago

It was a black radio against a black shirt. It was there the whole time, just hard to see.

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u/tengo_harambe 12d ago

You can see him holding it at 0:05 - 0:06.

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u/ScreenAppropriate679 12d ago

people who are sure this is not AI don't sound much smarter

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u/NoAdvice135 12d ago

It's kind of funny that every other robotics video has someone claiming it's AI or CGI.

There is some kind of denial that robots can now move fast and fluid.

It's easy to verify because the companies have usually an established track record. In this case this is a public even with multiple cameras.

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u/idekl 11d ago

I think it's because american robotics companies only show off robots doing things like moving crates or picking up fruit. China's over there just going hog wild and playing around. Granted, I'd much rather have a robot do my dishes and laundry than run 20mph. But the road to progress isn't always linear like that.

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u/kennytherenny 12d ago

Yes, the robot runs on AI.

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u/Moral-Relativity 12d ago

https://b23.tv/REtFeUK

Not the same view but at least the event itself isn’t AI.

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u/5H17SH0W 12d ago

Seems to be a lot of spectators, not spectating. Sitting pretty still and not turning with the movement of the event.

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u/enilea 12d ago

The event hasn't started yet, they are all the teams testing their robots

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u/lordpuddingcup 12d ago

Because the vents not actually happening hence why the fuckin video title says “during practice” these guys are just testing shit not racing

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u/EIsydeon 12d ago

He ded

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u/Fusifufu 12d ago

I think he needs an orthopedic to look at that spine injury.

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u/whybotherbrother17 12d ago

Happens to the best of us, doesn't it?

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u/Express-Director-474 12d ago

There is no wall!

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u/voxitron 12d ago

We’ve hit the stage of 80s’ transformers movies

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u/SlowUpTaken 12d ago

Send him to the blue tent

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u/KilllllerWhale 12d ago

Bro put NSFW tag on this

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u/meltylancer1979 12d ago

Run Robot! Run! ....Stop!

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u/Pleasant-Regular6169 12d ago

But can they fold laundry like Elon's bots? Or load a dishwasher like Addadick's?

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u/-ke7in- 12d ago

Blue on blue seems smart here

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u/BewitchingPetrichor 12d ago

Holy fuck that thing is fast

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u/IllustriousYoghurt39 11d ago

Another world record in the kamikaze sprint

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u/0FFFXY 11d ago

Bro thinks he's in a cartoon.

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u/commentShark 11d ago

Magic smoke has been lost!

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u/Remarkable_Mess6019 10d ago

The bot went out with a bang

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u/Wonderful_Pear_9813 12d ago

Imagine this fucker running after you irl

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u/foulflaneur 12d ago

That needs some Warner Bros sound effects.

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u/Sad-Nefariousness712 12d ago

First recorded death of a robot

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u/osfric 12d ago edited 12d ago

That's a career-ender. It'll never run the same

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u/lastWallE 11d ago

It took some sparks to his knee torso.

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u/Schlorpiblorp 12d ago

It's AI, the sparks look weird and the fall is super unnatural

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u/Aadi_880 12d ago

There's multiple angles of this. It's apparently not AI.

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u/Just_Section4489 12d ago

The sparks are a nice touch

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u/Additional-Acadia954 12d ago

Me too buddy… me too… 😪 😮‍💨

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u/Carl_The_Sagan 12d ago

so this one is even funnier than the last one?

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u/brasilia23 12d ago

Gta death screen sound effect.wav

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u/Nathan-Stubblefield 12d ago

Wiley Coyote level, with running backwards and sparks.

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u/ZenCyberDad 12d ago

That was a lot of sparks 😨

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u/Lance2409 12d ago

Leggooooo

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u/PvtMilhouse 12d ago

when are those game ?

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u/Heycheckthisout20 12d ago

So how fast is that guy going?

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u/R-Kayde 11d ago

Fast as fuck boii

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u/MF_2020 12d ago

Actually good analogy of how we are developing ai...as fast as possible

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u/LetterThen5892 12d ago

Guess if I was going to crash out and die... I want it to look like that with the sparks flying everywhere at the end...

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u/jackncl0ak 12d ago

In my defense, I told it to check itself.

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u/Bennnnetttt 12d ago

I could watch this all day.

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u/WeirdIndication3027 12d ago

Fuck my back hurt watching that

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u/greeneditman 12d ago

Poor good robot, so sad.

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u/SteadyWolf 12d ago

Cue the Spark Man stage music

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u/Terrible_Tangelo6064 12d ago

Imagine if real human sprinters did that.

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u/CarlosMartel10 12d ago

Estoy esperando las luchas de robot. Si que van a ser epicas.

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u/GrofZZ 12d ago

Love 🎇 on end

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u/rAndoFraze 12d ago

I don’t what everyone is laughing at. That is exactly how a human would react running at that speed!!! (A few less sparks ⚡️ 🔥)

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u/rAndoFraze 12d ago

Is there a video showing one of these things cable to stop?

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u/hornywhiteboi45 11d ago

You missed the turn buddy

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u/2bloodyrightmate 11d ago

Looks like he tore his HTML

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u/-What-Else-Is-There- 11d ago

Serious Sam's Headless Kamikaze

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u/123ihavetogoweeeeee 11d ago

And from that day on I was running….

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u/PrintLife92 11d ago

I really enjoyed seeing sparks fly from its chassis. I hope they all blow up like this when the Robot Wars of the 2030s kick off

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u/ApplesForColdGlory 11d ago

Is there a subreddit dedicated to videos of when these things fall down or flail around and fail? They make me feel better during this wonderful time where these things are not yet trying to kill me.

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u/Southern_Beach8345 11d ago

Running for his life

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u/Important_Sorbet 11d ago

Most unfortunate for the guy who bought that robot.

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u/necrosero 10d ago

I'm just imagining what would've happened if there was a human instead of that wall. Yikes. Otherwise, hilarious.

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u/UraniumFreeDiet 10d ago

Where can I watch all of the games?

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u/Legitimate_Try4394 10d ago

This feels like it belongs in r/runningcirclejerk

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u/Guilty-History-9249 8d ago edited 7d ago

I waiting for the day when we'll be questioning if these robots are doping and we need to do a fluid check.

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u/jlks1959 8d ago

The mocking will surely come. But look back just a few years....

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u/Altruistic-Body2579 5d ago

Fake and Gay

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u/APRobertsVII 12d ago

So, any explanation for the magically materializing object with an antenna in the hand of the guy running onto the track or are we certain this is AI?

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u/tengo_harambe 12d ago edited 12d ago

the radio and his shirt are black so it's not really strange you can't see it when they overlap... you can clearly see him holding it at his side from 0:05 - 0:06

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u/No-Opportunity9126 12d ago

What are sparks? Do they have mass?

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u/grantology_84 12d ago

Was this supposed to be fuckin hilarious? Because it was

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u/Broken_By_Default 12d ago

world war 3 is gonna be wild.

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u/ketamarine 12d ago

Good - pushing the limits and failing is part of the process of advancing technology!

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u/sxt173 12d ago

Here’s what I don’t understand. There are autonomous vehicles that can navigate very difficult scenarios (not Tesla, I’m talking Waymo or military off-road tech), but why do we keep seeing these videos of a rather simple robot fail at lane keeping?

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u/Ok-Charge-6998 11d ago edited 11d ago

Because, 4 wheels easy. 2 legs hard.

You can learn to drive within a month but it takes you several years to learn how to walk and even longer so that your running doesn’t look drunk.

If you leave a car for hours, days, weeks, months, it’ll just be there.

If you leave a person standing there for several hours eventually they’ll collapse.

In other words, we invented driving. We know exactly how it functions because we built the rules and refined it over many decades until we basically perfected it. Evolution developed walking and running, we do it subconsciously, calculating things a million times a second to keep us balanced. How do you get a robot to do something subconsciously? Let alone make it do the same level of calculations while running?

We are literally watching people teach robots how to walk and run like humans in the same way you learned to walk and run (because that’s easier to do than programming it), and because a computer is nowhere near our level of brain’s processing power, that’s gonna take a while. They need an insane amount of power for computation, giga factories. Your brain does all this, and more (keeping track of your hunger stats, breathing rates, heartbeats etc.) with the same power it takes to power a light bulb. So, that’s why.

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u/savetheunstable 11d ago

I've wondered this myself. Seems like it had plenty of time to render the obstacle