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    Watch this little humanoid robot pull a car with ease - Unitree's G1 robot displays remarkable balance and steadiness during the feat.
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    Watch this little humanoid robot pull a car with ease – Unitree’s G1 robot displays remarkable balance and steadiness during the feat.


    Watch this little humanoid robot pull a car with ease – Unitree’s G1 robot displays remarkable balance and steadiness during the feat.

    https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/humanoid-robot-pulls-car-with-ease/

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    1. Gari_305 on

      From the article

      We’ve already been impressed by the astonishing balance and control of Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot, with an earlier video showing it performing [flips and other acrobatic moves](https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/this-humanoid-robot-could-win-a-gymnastics-contest/) with aplomb, and another showing it [recovering at great speed](https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/humanoid-robot-anti-gravity-mode/) after being pushed to the ground.

      Now, researchers at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) have trained a Unitree G1 robot to pull a 1,400-kilogram car along a flat surface. The robot itself weighs just 35 kilograms and stands at 132 centimeters, so the feat does look rather remarkable. 

    2. davew_uk on

      I watch these videos and often wonder why the robots are so small? is it because it just makes them cheaper, or are there hard engineering problems that are difficult to solve when the robots limbs are longer?

      Maybe the motors aren’t powerful enough to move a longer, heavier limb at the right speed for human-like motion? IDK

    3. ArgyllAtheist on

      Oh yeah, make our future overlords superhuman strong as well.. no way that’s ever going to go badly..