They retired the version seen earlier in this thread. They've got a new one version now:


https://youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M?si=_1nbgi_p4d4zGl3z

Gonna need a bigger gun

Is it “forward thinking” or “reverse engineering” when a humanoid type machine can turn itself around without turning its “hips”?

It makes me laugh reading some of you guy's comments. Devices that will serve to destroy it's creators? death machines that can be used against the American people? Please. You know full well we already build devices that can do all of that and then some, but you only thought this is worrisome because it resembles a human being.

Replace the legs with a set of wheels and the torso with an auto turret all of a sudden it's just a cool new military gadget, put some propellers on it and now you've got one that can fly, ever heard of a drone before?

Case in point, a robot that moves with legs can NEVER outrun something on wheels or tracks, and all that mechanical complexity only ensures a high rate of failure and upkeep, before it even does anything useful. and if you ask what about the ability to climb steep hills or hop over obstacles....well that's why we have drones, that FLY....both of those devices have long existed and in popular use.

I think it's cool and interesting that they're able to create humanoid robots that can mimic movements of a human being (or animal), but this is something that'll have very limited real life application, because it's unnecessarily complex and expensive, with no actual benefit.
The human form is simply too inefficient with mobility, that's why we favor cars, airplanes over walking/running, simple, yeah?

Using these as fighting robot soldiers...give me a break, there will never be a day where a multi million dollar combat android is more economical to deploy than a few grunts with rifles in hand. Not to mention the fact that they still can't match the speed and agility of an actual human with simply an average physical ability.

Cool for a Sci-Fi movie but very limited real life applications. So no, stop fearing over this non-sense and just enjoy it for what it is, a proof of concept for human physiology study, replicated mechanically, and sleep well knowing that far more menacing technologies already exist and the world hasn't ended, yet.

Eh, yes and no.

So far, the market isn’t that competitive, but a number of restaurants are replacing food runners with fairly cheap robots.

There are companies offering coffee making robots, but you have to lease it plus buy their beans etc and that doesn’t really work.

Similarly, I’ve seen various demos of “ice cream” robots but no really suitable ones - but every person I know in food and bev is dreaming of adding as many robots as they can.

Those “android” ones might mimic the workflows better - early offset printers prettier clearly
mimicked a human doing the printing.

They are interesting in that they work in the same envelope and environment. (Walk down a street, go up stairs, open a door etc)

Also, I’m not sure that legs are inefficient. I kind of doubt it, really.

Humans are built to be endurance predators which run our prey to death.

We can, over a distance, outrun any animal on earth, as far as I know.

I don’t know that there is a more efficient option over varied terrain.