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Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games (apnews.com)
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[โ€“] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  • carry objects around
  • can actually lift meaningful amounts of weight
  • probably has fingers and can rotate screws in etc.
  • can probably operate tools that require fingers with more precision than mini-helicopters?
[โ€“] esc@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Objects are carried by UGVs, they can carry 200-300 kilograms while being pretty small, small UGVs can carry up to 100 kilos with size of ~1m in every dimension. Unless you can explain to a very expensive and smart robot what you need to rotate and where and how to operate tools given, you'll need a very competent pilot for these robots which with high probability would still be worse than dumbest of humans because they lack agility and require a lot of supportive infra to operate. Rich nations probably would try to make humanoid robots (like they did with robodogs) with questionable success.