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    Unitree's new all-terrain $100K B2-W quad-robot shows us what cutting-edge 2025 robotics looks like.
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    Unitree’s new all-terrain $100K B2-W quad-robot shows us what cutting-edge 2025 robotics looks like.

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    1. lughnasadh on

      Submission Statement

      [Here’s a video of the robot in action](https://youtu.be/X2UxtKLZnNo)

      $100,000 might initially seem like a high price for something like this, but not if you compare it to the cost of an employee. With battery-swapping, this robot can do two human-shifts a day. That means, even at minimum wage levels, it could pay for itself in 18 months if doing work humans can do.

      Can it replace human workers? I would guess yes in the fields of security, land management, search & rescue. With modification arms/grippers, machines like this could find roles in hospitality, retail and wider industry too.

      I’m surprised at the price, its $25K more than Boston Dynamics Spot robot, and other Chinese manufacturers make much cheaper quad-robots. Presumably Unitree think they have a product people will pay this much for.

    3. NLwino on

      Stuff like this, combined with a game aimbot level accuracy, is the future of warfare. And of course automated drone swarms, can’t forget them.

    6. nooffensebrah on

      It’s a big boy. 12mph, 31 miles of movement with an 80lb load, 165lbs (with the battery), 264 lb max load when standing and 3.6 feet tall

    7. Material-Search-2567 on

      This is why we have you’ll own nothing 2030 plan slowly being rolled out people are not needed anymore to make the economy work automated factories and robot servants will do just fine which makes middle class a direct competitor of resources for the elites

    8. MrKahnberg on

      I’ll order 5 to start. There’s hundreds of tasks for a machine like this on a sloping construction site.
      Or replacing flaggers. I’d never have to ask an employee to work in a blizzard again. One person can sit in a vehicle and manage a few robots for complex flagging situations.