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@SchiedC60393 800g of pure future>>>>

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@torquelog optional robots its future,but main question is still a price for them in future.

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@boring_simpson we all know what the main option in this 33k

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@servo_diaries her face seems so real i cant lie..

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A 6-foot Chinese-built robot kicked a man across a San Francisco cage on September 18.

The man was Frankie LaPenna, a content creator from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Helmet. Chest plate. Knee pads.

He threw first. 3 punches.

The robot answered with 1 kick.

He flew backwards into the glass and stayed down. Ringside, a guy in a striped shirt covered his mouth and laughed.

The robot raised its fists. Silver skull. 3 glowing lights on the chest. White sneakers.

Then people started asking how a 1.83 m robot learns to throw a kick.

It doesn’t.

Outside the cage, a human pilot ran it with VR or a gamepad. The AI did 1 job: keep it from falling over.

5 days later, the California State Athletic Commission sent REK a cease-and-desist. The problem wasn’t the robot. It was the unlicensed fight involving a human. In California, that can be a misdemeanor.

REK says LaPenna got up and won. The full footage has never been released.

REK is now promoting a Steam game. Top players get to pilot real robots at live events.

The first human-vs-robot fight was a man against a gamepad.

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@servo_diaries progress is wild

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Real Steel promised robot boxing by 2020 and missed by 6 years.

2 Unitree G1s. 1.3 meters tall. 35 kg each.

One in red headgear. One in blue.

Neither one is thinking.

2 meters behind them, a fighter in a motion capture suit throws a jab. Half a beat later, the robot throws the same jab.

Every sensor strapped to his chest is a string. The robot is the puppet.

A wall of phones goes up in the dark.

He steps in. The robot steps in.
He drops low. The robot drops low.
He swings. Steel swings.
Then he gets too close.
The pilot and the blue robot go down in one pile. The referee waves it off with both arms.

In 2011, Hugh Jackman stood outside a ring and shadowboxed. A robot called Atom copied every move.

The script called it shadow mode.

Engineers call it teleoperation.

The movie got one thing wrong.

The human still falls first.

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@SchiedC60393 In a couple of years, scenes from the film will become reality.

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@chappiefeed I’ll bet that in a couple of years we’ll see the first weddings.

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@dredgefactory well.. robot that can actually hug someone without crushing them or freezing mid-embrace? I genuinely didn’t think we’d get this far before they just started replacing people with mannequins.

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@torquelog This robot just out-stubborned a grown man on the sidewalk and still had the manners to wait for him to move first.
2026 is wild.

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A HUMANOID ROBOT LOST CONTROL INSIDE AN ELECTRONICS STORE, AND 2 GROWN MEN COULDN’T HOLD IT STILL.

The clip is 32 seconds of CCTV, shot from the ceiling.

It starts calm. White tiles, a lit-up counter, shelves of headphone boxes.

A robot stands by the wall with its blue visor glowing. 2 men shake hands in front of it, and it walks over to join them.

The man in black grabs it by the shoulders. It keeps going. The legs kick sideways and the visor whips left and right.

A man in sunglasses runs in from the back. That’s 2 people on 1 machine.

It still doesn’t stop. It drags both of them across the tiles toward the counter.

A 3rd man stands 2 meters away with his arms out and never touches it.

Nobody reaches for an off button. It looks like nobody knows where it is.

Everyone wanted a robot in the store. Nobody asked how to turn it off.

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@21stRobotics Hooks over hands is a clever way to show pure structural torque without grip issues, but the missing engine and zero suspension sag make that ~500 kg claim feel pretty optimistic. Anyone catch a clearer angle that doesn’t look like the car was already half-supported?

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@fingent_ai The skin and expressions are getting scarily good, but the real shift happens when these things stop just reacting and start remembering what you said last week or initiating on their own. At that point “it’s just hardware” starts sounding a lot less convincing.

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@Ronald_vanLoon @LightOrigins_ Still hard not to wonder how quickly that composure collapses / once something is slightly out of place or the robot has to recover without a clean reset.

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@ctorobotics Curious how it holds up in real warehouses though -uneven floors, imperfect rack alignment, dust, or just normal daily chaos. Anyone got long-term numbers on actual throughput and uptime from live sites, or does it start needing constant tweaks after a few months?

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@dredgefactory Humans got a whole Nobel Prize just for explaining why we’d be hugging the floor right now - she doesn’t even have the bug.

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Unitree built a robot to "guard you."

Night, a junkyard, real footage, no speed-up (their words, on screen).

About 8 hours of max endurance, per Unitree. 2.3M views on the post so far.

And the last line of their own post: "Please use the robot safely and in a friendly manner."

Would you let a robot that moves like this patrol your house, or is that exactly the problem?

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@Ronald_vanLoon @RWB_American Guy builds the thing like Lego then it just takes off and sprays the vineyard. Farming just got a serious upgrade.

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6 CHINESE ROBOTS DID BACKFLIPS AT THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN. AMERICA’S HUMANOID FELL IN FRONT OF SOLDIERS AND LEFT ON A STRETCHER.

At least, that’s what 61 seconds of footage wants you to believe.

A robot dog climbs bare rock. A 4-legged machine on wheels rolls over loose gravel. A silver humanoid throws a flying kick inside a shipping container.

Every Chinese shot carries the same watermark: Unitree Robotics.

Then the cut.

A forest in the US. Soldiers in camo, a woman in an orange safety vest. A tall black humanoid steps into the grass, wobbles, and goes down.

2 men carry it out on an orange stretcher.

The subtitle reads: “The US focuses on humanoids. It faces serious obstacles here.”

Clean story. China ships. America trips.

Now look at the top corner. The source says Bilibili. The logo says Sputnik.

Russian state media cut this.

Every Chinese shot is a promo reel. Slow motion, golden light, a Transformers statue posing in the background. Every American shot is raw field-test footage, the kind engineers film on purpose to log what broke.

1 side sent its highlight reel. The other side’s bad day got borrowed.

Unitree really does sell the G1 humanoid from $16,000 and the Go2 dog from $1,600. That part is true. But nobody posts the takes where the backflip failed.

The robots are real. The race is edited.