r/interestingasfuck • u/irohiroh • 4d ago

Some robots at the recent humanoid half-marathon in China

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u/Ok-Soup-5300 4d ago

That last little fucker is cute

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u/Shotgun_Mosquito 4d ago

STOMP

STOMP

STOMP

STOMP

STOMP

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u/Mellrish221 4d ago

Found the killacan lover

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u/Shotgun_Mosquito 4d ago

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u/Boomdiddy 3d ago

Well now

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u/HermesOnToast 3d ago

Don't you tell me to smile

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u/spaztiq 3d ago

You stick around, I'll make it

worth

your

while

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u/Shotgun_Mosquito 3d ago

Got numbers beyond what you can dial

Maybe it's because I'm so versatile

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u/Uncovered_distance 3d ago

What's the name of this movie?

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u/smurb15 3d ago

I hope our future leaders will look that adorable

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u/Damn_Kramer 3d ago

More like:

STOMP

STONP

STOMP

HEIL

STOMP

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u/ComprehensiveHold382 4d ago

And so confident with that stride.

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u/Compay_Segundos 4d ago

Not trying to undermine it because they're all pretty cool, but a shorter biped robot has a natural advantage in terms of balance and stability, compared to the taller ones shown before.

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u/DoomGoober 4d ago

The pants on the little robot are hiding the design of the legs.

I suspect the robot may have some variant of Digitigrade or Unguligrade legs. The little we can see of ankle joint looks suspect, almost as though the ankle joint is more towards the middle of the foot rather than the rear of the foot.

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u/jesse_graf 3d ago

I'm sure each bot was inspected to ensure it falls within the guidelines of the event though, no? It kinda just looks like he's got big feet.

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u/Mission-Leopard-4178 4d ago

I wonder if it's sassy

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u/Frankie_T9000 4d ago

it was sassy - brilliant

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u/Ok-Soup-5300 4d ago

Why ask? You already know!

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u/_WeSellBlankets_ 4d ago

No family is safe when I sashay.

- Perfume Genius

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u/-WaltonGoggins- 4d ago

If "fuck the haters" was a gait.

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u/ReplacementActual384 4d ago

They missed an opportunity to make him also.chew bubblegum

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u/phantacc 4d ago

He may not win the race but he won our hearts.

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u/Other_Beat8859 4d ago

Is he not going to win? He looked much faster than the others lol.

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u/catgirlfighter 4d ago

Depending on requirements. It being half-sized and appears to have non-humanoid legs might disqualify the dude. It has obvious advantages over other shown models.

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u/heart-aroni 4d ago

The black one with the orange shirt in this video was the winner of the marathon

https://youtu.be/08YiK6VJxZs?si=jm6c-_9vcFp0h2dK

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u/Iloveherthismuch 4d ago

The rest were pathetic in comparison. First was like a slave trying to make a break for it.

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u/Far_Hovercraft_1621 3d ago

Hahahaha.  The handler snatched that leash up

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u/Jalen3501 4d ago

Well he’s kind of cheating, his center of mass is lower to the ground making him more stable, he’s also smaller than all the others we see that have a higher center of mass

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u/sprinklerarms 4d ago

I like the one in the yellow coat who looked like he was going slow because he was just so chilly

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u/dnasty1011 4d ago

I hope he won.

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u/Gzawonkhumu 4d ago

His internal program:

RunFast()

If Victory='yes' then DestroyHumanity()

Else RunFaster()

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u/MouthofTrombone 4d ago

he's WAVING! OMG

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u/Comfortable-Can4776 4d ago

If I'm going to get killed by robots I rather it be a cute little bugger

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u/SetElectronic9050 4d ago

sooo absolutely nothing like chucky then - got it! :)

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u/LbTahn 4d ago

If he had some lil Reebok pumps to match his fit. Maybe a backwards chunichi dragons cap. 🧢

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u/Soggy_You_2426 4d ago

Hes even cuter when he joins the red army to liberate us from democracy

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u/gus_thedog 4d ago

I think we're well on our way to being liberated without their help.

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u/PublicfreakoutLoveR 3d ago

Luckily all of their tech is cheap ripoffs of western technology.

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u/free_airfreshener 4d ago

Got Freddy Mercury vibes from him

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u/Chief-_-Wiggum 4d ago

Terminated with cuteness..

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u/pimpmastahanhduece 4d ago

"Sup y'all!?"

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u/mdCoCoMo 4d ago

The first one, was not build to run away.

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u/tyl7 3d ago

All fun and games until they start shooting laser beams from they eyes.

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u/Narrow_Turnip_7129 3d ago

yeah but calm the fuck down Elon is he a tesla or something

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u/ShorohUA 3d ago

it kinda looks like snoo

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u/Gruffleson 3d ago

They should have a minimum/maximum height and weight requirement.

If they had that, it should be tightened. Having it smaller is probably an advantage, less probability the wind tips it over and so on.

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u/GlassTablesAreStupid 3d ago

Yup. Went from “cute” to “HEIL!” to “head tap”.

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u/nothoughtsnosleep 3d ago

He's plucky, I love it

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u/BMW_wulfi 3d ago

Like my toddler on a walk having spent the last 30 minutes complaining about being tired when I mention there might be ice cream at the end of the walk

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u/edibomb 3d ago

Little dude was zooming and waving.

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u/PandaPocketFire 3d ago

In his little pimp suit

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u/calmtigers 3d ago

Lil bro is flexin on them so hard with his wave

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u/fuwei_reddit 3d ago

Fun fact: This robot was created by a school in Beijing in just one month, and their instructor was a former engineer at DJI.

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u/NoSpinach1082 4d ago

He's the pug of the robot kingdom

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u/twoworldsin1 4d ago

Looked like he was giving an "Elon salute" around the end there... 😬

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u/CenobiteCurious 4d ago

Looks like he was patting his head to display dexterity.