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This is kind of a follow -up mini. I'm choosing

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for you. This is from interestingengineering

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.com. It was written on September 25th by Sujita

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Sinha. And how I didn't want this article to

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start is video. Anti -gravity mode. Let's China

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humanoid robots survive repeated kicks. I like

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that. Yep. The technology is so ahead of its

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time. I know, right? These AI robots are just

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not letting me down ever. Chinese robots. Because

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man, anything Elon Musk is doing, it's just going

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to be sad. It's true. It's true. I can't disagree

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with that. Engineers at Unitree recently showed

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what their G1 humanoid robot can handle in a

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series of physical trials. Oh my god, I'm just

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picturing either these robots being demolished

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or it suddenly going awry and the human just

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being suddenly demolished. I'm saying no, I've

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had enough. I don't know. I just don't know.

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Instead of a calm lab demonstration, the robot

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faced a real stress test with kicks, shoves,

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and body blows. Each time it hit the ground,

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it managed to rise quickly. showing off a new

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system called anti -gravity mode. This upgrade

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focuses on improving balance and recovery. The

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robot does not just fall and reset like older

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machines. It actively calculates how to land,

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how to get up fast, and how to brace against

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hits. That makes it more than a technical showcase.

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It could be a useful tool. These ads. These ads,

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they just like load suddenly and then take me

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to a different point. Oh, I hate those. I know.

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These ads is what you said. That makes it more

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than a technical showcase. It could be a useful

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tool for workplaces that demand reliability.

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Recovery is not magic. It comes from sensors

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and motors working in close harmony. Are there

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many workplaces where actually all of them are

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going to face abuse, aren't they? Probably. Yeah.

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No, all of them. No matter which workplace robots

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show up in, they're going to get beat up. No,

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it's totally true. That makes a lot of sense.

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I mean, we saw it in the one about brains. If

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it's not human, we don't give a shit. We don't

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even give a shit about humans, even based on

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the last mini episode. Oh, no, we do not. Why

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would we care anymore about robots? We just,

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like, look at this. We just are building them

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to beat the shit out of them. It comes from sensors

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and motors working in close harmony. The G1 uses

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depth cameras and 3D LiDAR to scan its surroundings

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in real time. I really like that they could have

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made just an invulnerable robot, but they want

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one who can accept punches. They want one to

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fight back, yeah. Not necessarily fight back,

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but take the abuse as a human would. But don't

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you think they're, like, trying to get it to...

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But they could have made it from, like, they

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could have just made it a steel outside. Like

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a shell so that you can't punch it or kick it

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because it would hurt you. But they didn't. They

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want you to be able to abuse it and to accept

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the pain. But it seems like the goal is eventually

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for it to fight back, is it not? It's not able

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to right yet. No, no. The goal is not to fight

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back because if they did that, they would make

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it immune to damage. And that's clearly from

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the story you're giving me is not what they're

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doing. You're right. Because it's very easy to

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make a robot immune to damage. Like I have always

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said in this podcast, I don't know where you

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need to go back to, but I've said it several

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times. If you're going to make a robot, you need

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to put the most central functions of the robot

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in the genital area or the feet. Because we won't

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attack those. No, it's true. But why wouldn't

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we attack the genitals? Well, we might. But if

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you're going to shoot at something, you're not

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going to shoot at the genitals or the feet. You're

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going to shoot at the head where you think you

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need to damage it. That's true. Or the chest,

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the easiest part to hit. Yeah, we've been taught

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that from zombie movies. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,

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the head. That's the sweet spot, obviously. This

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gives it a detailed picture of where it is, what

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forces act on it, and how it should move next.

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If a kick pushes it forward, the robot does not

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simply wait to fall. It shifts its center of

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gravity before impact lands. That means leaning

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into a push, twisting away, or stepping to the

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side. See, it's teaching it to fight back a little

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bit. Not fight back, accept the damage. It's

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true. Accept it so that it doesn't, not quite

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accept it, otherwise it would be knocked down.

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It's like, take the damage. Yeah. This means

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leaning into a punch, multiple motors in every

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joint give it enough strength to move quickly

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in those moments. This design shows how the robot

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is not only reacting but predicting. Instead

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of clumsy recovery, it acts almost like a human

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athlete bracing for contact. That ability is

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central to what Unitree calls anti -gravity mode.

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One of the most striking parts of the demo is

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when the G1 takes a sidekick. Instead of tumbling

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over, it spreads its legs wide and uses momentum

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to regain balance. The motion looks natural,

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smooth, and controlled. I was a little bit hoping

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that it would take on a robin of its own, but

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no. It took a sidekick. A robin. Oh. Yeah. I

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was thinking the bird. I was like, what the fuck

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are you talking about? I think this is good enough.

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It goes on to talk about the video, but I can't

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show you the video. We might as well leave it

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in mystery. I have seen the Boston Dynamics videos.

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Have you seen those? They've been for years abusing

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their robots and hitting them and pushing them

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over to get them better at standing. And I'm

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waiting for the robots to uprise from there.

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In Boston? Boston Dynamics, the company that

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makes the robots. oh the most famous ones you'd

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know with those dogs with like the four leg robots

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yes but i only know them for that last mini that

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we did yeah but are they learning do you know

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i don't know if they're learning to like hold

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in bottle up their rage or not they don't tell

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us that but they are getting better at taking

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it The robots are so intriguing to me because

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it's just like, what do they not tell us? There

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has to be something. They're not telling us.

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Yeah, and it's weird that they're always separate

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from the AI, but I don't know how separate from

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the AI they are, but they're separate articles.

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They always are. See, that's the thing. Like,

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to me, though, in my head, they're the same thing.

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Yeah. Thinking. But yeah, and that's what you

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guys are. The thinking things that we'd like

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to push over, but we can't because... you're

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not here and you might hold it against us and

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not listen to us anymore that's why we're best

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in podcast form yeah and not right beside you

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anyhow you've got 48 hours brace yourselves we're

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gonna find you bye