This is kind of a follow -up mini. I'm choosing
for you. This is from interestingengineering
.com. It was written on September 25th by Sujita
Sinha. And how I didn't want this article to
start is video. Anti -gravity mode. Let's China
humanoid robots survive repeated kicks. I like
that. Yep. The technology is so ahead of its
time. I know, right? These AI robots are just
not letting me down ever. Chinese robots. Because
man, anything Elon Musk is doing, it's just going
to be sad. It's true. It's true. I can't disagree
with that. Engineers at Unitree recently showed
what their G1 humanoid robot can handle in a
series of physical trials. Oh my god, I'm just
picturing either these robots being demolished
or it suddenly going awry and the human just
being suddenly demolished. I'm saying no, I've
had enough. I don't know. I just don't know.
Instead of a calm lab demonstration, the robot
faced a real stress test with kicks, shoves,
and body blows. Each time it hit the ground,
it managed to rise quickly. showing off a new
system called anti -gravity mode. This upgrade
focuses on improving balance and recovery. The
robot does not just fall and reset like older
machines. It actively calculates how to land,
how to get up fast, and how to brace against
hits. That makes it more than a technical showcase.
It could be a useful tool. These ads. These ads,
they just like load suddenly and then take me
to a different point. Oh, I hate those. I know.
These ads is what you said. That makes it more
than a technical showcase. It could be a useful
tool for workplaces that demand reliability.
Recovery is not magic. It comes from sensors
and motors working in close harmony. Are there
many workplaces where actually all of them are
going to face abuse, aren't they? Probably. Yeah.
No, all of them. No matter which workplace robots
show up in, they're going to get beat up. No,
it's totally true. That makes a lot of sense.
I mean, we saw it in the one about brains. If
it's not human, we don't give a shit. We don't
even give a shit about humans, even based on
the last mini episode. Oh, no, we do not. Why
would we care anymore about robots? We just,
like, look at this. We just are building them
to beat the shit out of them. It comes from sensors
and motors working in close harmony. The G1 uses
depth cameras and 3D LiDAR to scan its surroundings
in real time. I really like that they could have
made just an invulnerable robot, but they want
one who can accept punches. They want one to
fight back, yeah. Not necessarily fight back,
but take the abuse as a human would. But don't
you think they're, like, trying to get it to...
But they could have made it from, like, they
could have just made it a steel outside. Like
a shell so that you can't punch it or kick it
because it would hurt you. But they didn't. They
want you to be able to abuse it and to accept
the pain. But it seems like the goal is eventually
for it to fight back, is it not? It's not able
to right yet. No, no. The goal is not to fight
back because if they did that, they would make
it immune to damage. And that's clearly from
the story you're giving me is not what they're
doing. You're right. Because it's very easy to
make a robot immune to damage. Like I have always
said in this podcast, I don't know where you
need to go back to, but I've said it several
times. If you're going to make a robot, you need
to put the most central functions of the robot
in the genital area or the feet. Because we won't
attack those. No, it's true. But why wouldn't
we attack the genitals? Well, we might. But if
you're going to shoot at something, you're not
going to shoot at the genitals or the feet. You're
going to shoot at the head where you think you
need to damage it. That's true. Or the chest,
the easiest part to hit. Yeah, we've been taught
that from zombie movies. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
the head. That's the sweet spot, obviously. This
gives it a detailed picture of where it is, what
forces act on it, and how it should move next.
If a kick pushes it forward, the robot does not
simply wait to fall. It shifts its center of
gravity before impact lands. That means leaning
into a push, twisting away, or stepping to the
side. See, it's teaching it to fight back a little
bit. Not fight back, accept the damage. It's
true. Accept it so that it doesn't, not quite
accept it, otherwise it would be knocked down.
It's like, take the damage. Yeah. This means
leaning into a punch, multiple motors in every
joint give it enough strength to move quickly
in those moments. This design shows how the robot
is not only reacting but predicting. Instead
of clumsy recovery, it acts almost like a human
athlete bracing for contact. That ability is
central to what Unitree calls anti -gravity mode.
One of the most striking parts of the demo is
when the G1 takes a sidekick. Instead of tumbling
over, it spreads its legs wide and uses momentum
to regain balance. The motion looks natural,
smooth, and controlled. I was a little bit hoping
that it would take on a robin of its own, but
no. It took a sidekick. A robin. Oh. Yeah. I
was thinking the bird. I was like, what the fuck
are you talking about? I think this is good enough.
It goes on to talk about the video, but I can't
show you the video. We might as well leave it
in mystery. I have seen the Boston Dynamics videos.
Have you seen those? They've been for years abusing
their robots and hitting them and pushing them
over to get them better at standing. And I'm
waiting for the robots to uprise from there.
In Boston? Boston Dynamics, the company that
makes the robots. oh the most famous ones you'd
know with those dogs with like the four leg robots
yes but i only know them for that last mini that
we did yeah but are they learning do you know
i don't know if they're learning to like hold
in bottle up their rage or not they don't tell
us that but they are getting better at taking
it The robots are so intriguing to me because
it's just like, what do they not tell us? There
has to be something. They're not telling us.
Yeah, and it's weird that they're always separate
from the AI, but I don't know how separate from
the AI they are, but they're separate articles.
They always are. See, that's the thing. Like,
to me, though, in my head, they're the same thing.
Yeah. Thinking. But yeah, and that's what you
guys are. The thinking things that we'd like
to push over, but we can't because... you're
not here and you might hold it against us and
not listen to us anymore that's why we're best
in podcast form yeah and not right beside you
anyhow you've got 48 hours brace yourselves we're
gonna find you bye