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A ROBOT JUST RAN FASTER THAN USAIN BOLT AT HIS PEAK
Unitree's new humanoid, called Superman, hit a top speed of 12.66 meters per second. Bolt's peak during his 9.58-second world record in 2009 was about 12.4.Its legs are only 0.85 meters long.
Bolt is 1.95 meters tall. The machine is doing it with a shorter stride and pure cadence.
The same robot does a 2-meter standing jump, which is above the human world record.
Now the part that should scare you. Unitree says the whole machine was developed in just over three months.
Bolt trained for 20 years to reach that number and no human has beaten it in 17 years since.
In April this same company's older model was running 10.1 m/s and everyone called it impressive.
Four months later it is past the fastest man who ever lived.
A ROBOT JUST RAN FASTER THAN USAIN BOLT AT HIS PEAK
Unitree's new humanoid, called Superman, hit a top speed of 12.66 meters per second. Bolt's peak during his 9.58-second world record in 2009 was about 12.4.Its legs are only 0.85 meters long.
Bolt is 1.95 meters tall. The machine is doing it with a shorter stride and pure cadence.
The same robot does a 2-meter standing jump, which is above the human world record.
Now the part that should scare you. Unitree says the whole machine was developed in just over three months.
Bolt trained for 20 years to reach that number and no human has beaten it in 17 years since.
In April this same company's older model was running 10.1 m/s and everyone called it impressive.
Four months later it is past the fastest man who ever lived.
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ROBOTS LEFT THE FACTORY AND SHOWED UP IN YOUR APARTMENT TO DO THE RENOVATION.
It drills the panels, holds the cabinet together, lifts a full shelving unit and sets it against the wall, then cuts a board on the table with a circular saw.
Look at what it lifts. A tall shelving unit weighs around 40 kg and bends under its own weight. The robot carries it upright, walks it over and sets it flush against the wall without folding it.
Then it picks up a circular saw. That is a live blade in both hands, held steady through the whole cut.
Nothing here is pre-measured. Panels slide, screws go in crooked, boards shift under the blade. This is a room in an apartment, not a factory line.
A carpenter charges around $80 an hour for this work.
The robot in this video charges nothing.
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PARCEL SORTING FEEDS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. OPTIMUS IS DOING THAT JOB NOW.
It works through a pile of shipments and places them on the conveyor one at a time. Soft plastic bags, cardboard boxes, wrapped bundles.
Every item is a different weight, shape and grip. Nothing sits in a fixed position and nothing arrives the same way twice.
This is exactly where industrial robots always stopped. A factory arm repeats one motion over one part in one place. A pile of random parcels gives it no motion to repeat.
Watch the fingers when it picks up a bag. The grip changes for every item.
No cage, no barrier, no operator with a controller anywhere near it.
This is an ordinary warehouse shift.
Tesla says it wants to build 1,000,000 of these a year.
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A ROBOT IS SHOOTING BASKETBALL AGAINST A HUMAN AND IT DOESN'T MISS.
This is Unitree's G1 in a hoodie, throwing at the hoop, catching the rebound and shooting again. A guy plays next to it the whole time.
Shooting a ball is much harder than it looks for a machine. The robot has to judge distance, load the arms, transfer weight through the legs and release at the exact moment. Every miss changes where the ball comes back, so no two attempts are ever the same.
The tether on the floor is a power cable, not a controller. Nobody is aiming for it.
A year ago the same model was winning obstacle races on a stadium track. Now it is playing catch with a person in an office.
The G1 sells for about $16,000 and the smaller model costs $5,900.
Robots stopped being clumsy while everyone was still making jokes about them falling over.
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A PLASTERER DESTROYS HIS BACK BY 50. THIS MACHINE DOESN'T HAVE ONE
It works the same at hour 1 and hour 9. It never straightens up, never takes a break, never goes out on disability.
Plastering was supposed to be safe from automation. The mix changes consistency as it dries, every wall is uneven, and the pressure on the trowel has to change constantly. There is no fixed motion to program here.
That is why this clip matters more than any factory demo. Factory work is one part in one position, thousands of times in a row. This is a surface that is different every square meter.
A plasterer costs about $6,000 a month in the US.
The robot in this video costs less than that outright.
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A ROBOT RAN A STADIUM OBSTACLE COURSE A YEAR AGO AND PEOPLE STILL THINK ROBOTS ARE CLUMSY
This is Unitree's G1 winning the obstacle race at the Humanoid Games. It runs down a track lane, climbs a ramp, drops off the edge and keeps running, with camera crews and staff standing a few meters away.
Nobody is holding it. There is no cage, no safety line, no flat lab floor.
Look at how it lands after the drop. It absorbs the impact, corrects its balance in a fraction of a second and keeps its speed. That recovery is the main problem in walking robots, and it was solved on camera in front of a crowd.
This footage is a year old. A G1 costs about $16,000.
Since then the same company released a model at $5,900, and Chinese factories built more than 80% of the world's humanoids in a single year.
Everyone who saw this clip called it a stunt.
It was a price list.
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CHINA IS PUTTING VISIBLE PORES AND CAPILLARIES INTO ROBOT SKIN NOW.
The clip opens on a close-up of the legs. You can see the texture of the skin and the fine blood vessels underneath it, and the camera holds there because that is the selling point.
The specs are on screen. Over 30 degrees of freedom in the face alone. Self-developed silicone bionic skin. Manufacturing tolerance under 0.5mm.
Those 30 face motors are the whole story. Human expression is not a set of poses, it is constant small movement, and that is what always gave synthetic faces away. The Chinese pitch is continuous emotional expression, which means the face never freezes between states.
Western companies went the opposite direction. Tesla, Figure and Agility ship blank panels instead of faces because a face that is nearly human makes industrial buyers trust the machine less.
So the two markets have split completely. America is building robots to work in factories. China is building robots to be looked at.
CHINA IS PUTTING VISIBLE PORES AND CAPILLARIES INTO ROBOT SKIN NOW.
The clip opens on a close-up of the legs. You can see the texture of the skin and the fine blood vessels underneath it, and the camera holds there because that is the selling point.
The specs are on screen. Over 30 degrees of freedom in the face alone. Self-developed silicone bionic skin. Manufacturing tolerance under 0.5mm.
Those 30 face motors are the whole story. Human expression is not a set of poses, it is constant small movement, and that is what always gave synthetic faces away. The Chinese pitch is continuous emotional expression, which means the face never freezes between states.
Western companies went the opposite direction. Tesla, Figure and Agility ship blank panels instead of faces because a face that is nearly human makes industrial buyers trust the machine less.
So the two markets have split completely. America is building robots to work in factories. China is building robots to be looked at.
https://t.co/NisLsUntj8
@itssablee watched this two days ago and now it's showing up on my tl :D
knew X was watching me...
THIS IS A ROBOT PACKED IN BUBBLE WRAP ON A FACTORY FLOOR, NOT A WOMAN.
She looks straight into the camera and smiles. Behind her you can see the racks and the packing line.
Read that again, then look at the skin around her eyes and mouth.
Two years ago this would have taken one second to call. Synthetic faces had dead eyes, plastic skin and a mouth that moved wrong. Anybody could spot it instantly.
That giveaway is gone. People now replay clips like this frame by frame and still get it wrong.
Here is the part nobody expects. Every company actually shipping humanoids at scale left the face blank on purpose. Tesla, Figure and Agility all use plain panels, because a face that is almost human makes buyers trust the machine less, not more.
So realistic faces are not going into factories or warehouses. They are being built for homes, for companionship, and for the market that will pay the most for them.
That market has never cared whether the thing in front of it was real.
THIS IS A ROBOT PACKED IN BUBBLE WRAP ON A FACTORY FLOOR, NOT A WOMAN.
She looks straight into the camera and smiles. Behind her you can see the racks and the packing line.
Read that again, then look at the skin around her eyes and mouth.
Two years ago this would have taken one second to call. Synthetic faces had dead eyes, plastic skin and a mouth that moved wrong. Anybody could spot it instantly.
That giveaway is gone. People now replay clips like this frame by frame and still get it wrong.
Here is the part nobody expects. Every company actually shipping humanoids at scale left the face blank on purpose. Tesla, Figure and Agility all use plain panels, because a face that is almost human makes buyers trust the machine less, not more.
So realistic faces are not going into factories or warehouses. They are being built for homes, for companionship, and for the market that will pay the most for them.
That market has never cared whether the thing in front of it was real.
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A HUMANOID ROBOT IS STANDING ON A TRADE SHOW FLOOR IN CHINA WORKING THE CROWD LIKE A HIRED MODEL
Female face. Long black hair. An open metal body with all the joints and cables showing.
No cover. No pretending it's human. That part is on purpose.
Watch what it actually does. It turns to face whoever walks up. It tracks people moving past. It talks, it gestures, it holds a conversation with a girl standing right next to it.
Nobody is holding a controller. Nobody is standing behind it with a laptop.
A booth at a Chinese expo is now the cheapest place on earth to put a robot to work — no cage, no safety line, strangers pressing in from every side.
3 years ago this only happened in a lab with a taped-off floor.
The face gets the attention. The job it's doing is the real news.
⚠️A 20MM CANNON IS FIRING INTO A HUMANOID ROBOT AND IT KEEPS WALKING⚠️
The clip is labeled a 20mm ammo resistance test. Rounds hit the chest and the shoulders, sparks come off the armor plates, and the machine stays upright and keeps moving forward.
A 20mm round is anti-materiel ammunition. It is the class of weapon used against light vehicles and aircraft, not against people. Body armor doesn't exist at that level, because nothing a person can carry would stop it.
That is the whole point of the test.
Take the operator out of a machine and the design rules change completely. There is no soft target inside anymore, so armor gets thicker and heavier without limit.
Everything about infantry equipment is built around one number, which is how much weight a person can carry all day. Remove that number and the vehicle stops being a person in armor.
This is the part nobody talks about when they argue about robots taking factory jobs.
The same technology is being tested downrange with live ammunition right now.
https://t.co/NisLsUntj8
A HUMANOID ROBOT IS STANDING ON A TRADE SHOW FLOOR IN CHINA WORKING THE CROWD LIKE A HIRED MODEL
Female face. Long black hair. An open metal body with all the joints and cables showing.
No cover. No pretending it's human. That part is on purpose.
Watch what it actually does. It turns to face whoever walks up. It tracks people moving past. It talks, it gestures, it holds a conversation with a girl standing right next to it.
Nobody is holding a controller. Nobody is standing behind it with a laptop.
A booth at a Chinese expo is now the cheapest place on earth to put a robot to work — no cage, no safety line, strangers pressing in from every side.
3 years ago this only happened in a lab with a taped-off floor.
The face gets the attention. The job it's doing is the real news.
https://t.co/unSIgjiuJz
A man in 1910 taped lights to workers' hands and accidentally invented the training data every humanoid runs on.
He wanted to know why one bricklayer was faster than another. So he took the job apart.
Every human action got broken into 17 elementary motions. Reach. Grasp. Position. Release. Each one named, timed, numbered.
Then he filmed people in a dark room with bulbs on their wrists, so a single frame showed the whole path a hand traveled through space.
That is motion capture, in 1910, with a camera and 2 light bulbs. And what comes out of it is a labeled record of how a human body actually solves a physical task.
He was doing it to speed up factories. Those same recordings are the exact kind of thing a humanoid has to learn from now, because language never contained any of it. Nothing ever written down tells you the arc a wrist takes lifting a full cup.
The model read everything. The body still has to be shown.
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THEY BUILT THE BRAIN FIRST. THE BODY CAME SECOND.
A lab filmed the first switch-on of an android this morning. The face looks completely human. It hasn't opened its eyes yet.
The engineer explains what's happening. The AI that runs this thing has been ready for months. Today is the first time they connect it to a face — to eyes, to muscles, to touch.
You can see tiny twitches under the eyelids. He says it straight away: it's not dreaming, the motors behind the eyes are just calibrating.
He has to say that out loud. Because everyone watching thought the same thing.
The skin is real too — a synthetic layer grown by the bio team.
The startup process began hours ago and is still running.
The video ends before the eyes open.
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CHINA PUT A ROBOT IN A POLICE UNIFORM AND SENT IT INTO A CROWD.
Not a lab. Not a taped-off demo square. A packed shopping street on a Saturday, hundreds of people, phones up, kids cutting across its path.
3 officers walking abreast. One of them is 70 kg of metal in a tactical vest.
Watch the ground, not the badge. Wet tile, uneven pavement, a moving crowd on both sides, no barrier, no handler with a kill switch. That was flatly impossible 3 years ago — every humanoid before this needed a flat floor and 4 people watching it.
The uniform is theater. The walking is the technology.
A Unitree G1 costs about $16,000. Less than 1 year of a junior officer, and it doesn't sleep, doesn't claim overtime, doesn't draw a pension, doesn't get scared at 2 AM.
China ran over 80% of the world's humanoid deployments last year. This is what that number looks like once it steps outside the factory gate.
Everyone kept asking when robots would leave the warehouse.
It already happened. It clocked in wearing a badge.
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