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The Dark Horse of WW3: Humanoid Robots (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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Recently Hangzhou, Zhejiang based Unitree announced a humanoid robot that costs just 39,999 yuan, or 5,900 USD.

It is capable of doing complex movements like hand stands, cartwheels, punching, lying down prone, and standing up again on its own. It weighs 25 Kilos, and is about as tall as a smaller sized human.

I think this is an area we should be paying very special attention to. AI is getting all the hype, but it's unlikely to have a big effect on the outcome of a war. Being able to mass produce soldiers though? That's a game changer.

These robots would work in any terrain a human can once water proofed, and could be remotely piloted by human soldiers. Retrofitting them with weapons systems would be simple, and they could have armor plating added on so they could just stand under heavy fire and be fine. You'd need higher caliber rounds to take them out. (Exactly the things that the US is floundering to secure metals to make since China controls so much of the rare earth industry).

I don't think it's hyperbole to say that these could be the equivalent of the invention of the musket. If WW3 happens sometime in the next decade i expect the world to be shocked as it becomes clear war will never be the same again. It's like a countdown has begun where everyday we get closer to the moment one of these is first used in a peer conflict, and an arms race begins. One China already seems to be winning before it even starts.

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[–] KrasnaiaZvezda@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a developer on YouTube that got his hands on a $50k G1 (with working hands) and he has been showing how to make it do things. I found it very interesting.

The basic idea, from what I understand, is that these robots are just now getting the software needed to actually stand and move around without falling, and that's basically all these robots are shipped with. Anything other than walking and running needs to be programmed to be done, but now that we have LLMs it's just beginning to be possible to program the robots to automatically decide how to move around and how to interact with the environment.

So, because of that, money and effort are now increasingly being invested into developing these robots into fully automous, and consequently the the prices are now quickly falling because the production at scale is finally happening in anticipation of the software needed being developed soon.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Oh yeah, I expected that they would basically be a dev kit and you have to code everything in yourself. I didn't expect that it would be so manual though, I thought their basic function was that they could stand up and walk by themselves, but apparently you even have to code that in before you make it do more advanced stuff. Interested to see how it handles actual tasks (like even just picking up an object) later on hopefully.

edit: I assume since this is a dev kit they are expecting a market to pop up around these robots, probably even other companies rebranding them with their own name and selling them for specific purposes out of the box (e.g. chores)