These are a couple videos of a LinkerBot Linker Hand L30 demonstrating its quickness by screwing a variety of nuts and bolts at lightning speed. It’s like a cordless screwdriver…but a hand. Talk about fingers of fury! Is this a pleasure model? If it isn’t already, it will be soon.
This is a video demonstration of the Roadrunner bipedal robot developed by the Robotics and AI Institute. The 33-pound robot looks like a pair of dismembered robotic legs with wheels for feet, presumably because that’s exactly what it is. It can roll around with its wheels oriented straight ahead or
This is a video from China of a group of young martial artists performing a choreographed routine with little humanoid robots. Admittedly, I did like the part where the robots were flipping off of the springboard. I did not like the part where they were waving swords, even if the
Because the robot apocalypse can’t come soon enough, this is a video of a T800 (yes, seriously) humanoid robot built by Chinese robotics company Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co. (EngineAI for short) kicking the company’s CEO to the ground to prove previously posted videos of the robot weren’t CGI. How
This is a short video of a robot operator taking a swift kick to the nuts by the Unitree G1 robot that’s copying his moves. In the operator’s own translated words while I pretend to tear my own head off just in case any robots are copying me: Before that
This is allegedly a video of a tele-operated Optimus (Prime is insulted) humanoid robot from Tesla serving water bottles at an event when it appears to mimic the movements of the person operating it by taking off its invisible tele-operator headset, collapsing in the process. Whoops! Still, I do find
Because soon robots will play all our sports for us, this is a video of Morpheus, a giant table tennis playing robot made by Omron that uses AI to actively analyze an opponent’s playstyle and adapts in real time in order to humiliate them. Nice try, robot, but I’m used
This is a video from Pittsburgh-based Skild AI demonstrating the AI brain they’ve developed (“Any robot. Any task. One brain.”), and how quickly it can adapt to a robot’s broken limbs or other decreased mobility. SPOILER: almost instantly. Me? I broke my pinky toe once and thought I was a