Unitree Robot Off-Road

Anyone else get a sense of anxiety at the thought of a machine gun attached to one of those things?

tcdent · a year ago

> In September 2023, the United States Marine Corps used an M72 LAW anti-tank rocket launcher fixed to a Go1 robotic dog during tactical training at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitree_Robotics

ortusdux · a year ago

Hobbyists are making drones that can go 0-180mph in 2 seconds top speeds of 300+mph. Anxiety all around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wThmg8Ezm9w

erwincoumans · a year ago

Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlDLwTsRHtU Ghost Robotics has been working with the US Army putting weapons on their robot quadruped for several years now. Unitree is ahead of the game with their hardware+software ecosystem though.

Yoric · a year ago

Yes, but not necessarily more so than at the thought of a machine gun in the hands of a human being.

grogenaut · a year ago

I was picturing a horde of them streaming down a hill with guns towards you yes.

r00fus · a year ago

The country where Unitree is based has not been in a major war in the past 30-40 years. Sure companies based in the western world can take inspiration from this but given the US-China conflict apparently in the works, it seems the advanced tech would be on the Chinese side.

smusamashah · a year ago

This looks better than Robo dog in the sense that it's being robot, not an animal/human replica, using those wheels. That's how a robot should be. And it looks fantastic with those moves.

Video does not say if those moves were made by a human behind remote control or was the robot doing it by itself? It will be many times more impressive if the robot was avoiding collisions by itself.

ofrzeta · a year ago

"Part of the function requires human operation or secondary development to realize, different configurations vary" - https://www.unitree.com/b2-w

digitallis42 · a year ago

Several moments look like CGI, particularly with how the dust behaves. It's getting hard to believe video like this.

Havoc · a year ago

There is definitely something uncanny about it, but I suspect its frame generation & sharpening

nikolay · a year ago

China slowly but surely is becoming #1 in everything.

jmugan · a year ago

Wow! This is beyond my expectations.

rapsey · a year ago

China is in the forefront of drones, EVs, batteries, robotics and solar. It can't really be considered much behind the US on AI.

I think one day soon the US is going to get a rude awakening of being behind on tech. Probably once they come up with 4nm or less chips and that is likely not far off.

tailfra · a year ago

Regarding the AI part, there are a lot of chinese open-source LLMs and VLMs out there, and they are really great!

linotype · a year ago

Eventually they’ll run out of things to copy, then progress will slow. Ultimately it’s a net positive if you’re interested in technological progress to have more people working on these problems.

rapsey · a year ago

All the areas I listed they are in the forefront and not copying anybody. You are living in the past if you think China is incapable of coming up with new tech. Their stem workforce dwarfes the US and their universities are just as good.

ThouYS · a year ago

3D printers, Bambulab is incredible!

hedgehog · a year ago

I love the "please do not imitate dangerous actions" caption as the guy climbs on to the robot, who could have one of these and not try riding it?

ofrzeta · a year ago

That looks incredibly impressive. However I wonder how long/often you can do stunts like that until the wheel legs need significat maintenance.