Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace (engadget.com) 57
Two humanoid robots competing at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday ran the 100-meter dash faster than Usain Bolt's 9.58-second world-record time. "[T]he Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot completed the 100-meter dash in 9.39 seconds during a preliminary heat," reports Engadget. "Developed by Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, the record-holding robot overtook Honor's Lightning robot, which completed the sprint in 9.47 seconds. From the report: Despite the impressive finish times, don't expect these humanoid robots to be used for any commercial purposes yet. After their sprints, they slammed directly into pads and some even required human assistance to be stretchered off the course. However, it's still a major improvement from last year's inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games, where the Tiangong Ultra won the 100-meter dash in 21.5 seconds. Beijing has also hosted a humanoid robot half-marathon, where Honor's Lightning won in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, which also beat the pace of another human world record.
"The World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing kicked off August 22 and will run until the 26, hosting thousands of robot participants competing in more than just track and field events, including soccer, table tennis and boxing," adds Engadget.
"The World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing kicked off August 22 and will run until the 26, hosting thousands of robot participants competing in more than just track and field events, including soccer, table tennis and boxing," adds Engadget.
Faster than Usain Bolt (Score:1)
But what about his brother, Insane Bolt [adsspot.me]?
A machine faster than a human? (Score:2)
Re: A machine faster than a human? (Score:2)
Good luck with that wheel thing (Score:2)
Just how do you propose the issue of it spinning round? Anybody inside would, at best, get dizzy, at worst squashed by centripedal forces.
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That's the point of the computer driver. The same can be said about airplanes. The plane itself can take higher g-force levels where as a human would pass out. Drones for the future of air combat by far make the most sense. You could even use drones as wingmen for a human pilot. They probably already do that.
This was a pretty impressive display of robotics. I can't wait to see what they can do next year and the year after that. The future is both amazing and scary at the same time.
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Robot battle reenactment (Score:1)
And one day, they could recreate historic battles accurately, to reveal why the outcome was what it was, and how it could have been different.
Make it happen !
Re:Robot battle reenactment (Score:4, Interesting)
It sounds like would be cool to watch, but on the other hand, you cannot convince me that giving weapons to robots would be a good idea.
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Now, not even the fastest human can outrun the [kill]bots.
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Although somehow that never stopped the Daleks...
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The fuck they can't.
They can do stairs at 30MPH.
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If all that doesn't work, well, I for one...
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Just wait until next year or 5 years. They'll get there while we are just getting older.
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And nobody is going to ask you or me. They're just gonna do it. And half the country is too busy worrying about trans girls in sports to stop it, it whatever moral panic comes next after that. Maybe violent video games again.
splat at the end (Score:4, Interesting)
Funny how they've got that blue barrier for them to crash into at the finish line, then they get carried away on stretchers. Should be an interesting story behind that.
Did they completely tap their battery for the final sprint and can't even stand anymore? Or were they never programmed on how to stop?
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For some of the contestants (and observers) it seems to be a practical safety feature [youtube.com]
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Funny how they've got that blue barrier for them to crash into at the finish line, then they get carried away on stretchers. Should be an interesting story behind that.
Did they completely tap their battery for the final sprint and can't even stand anymore? Or were they never programmed on how to stop?
Roller skating.
Ice Skating.
Downhill skiing.
Bobsledding.
All things which are pretty easy for a human to start doing but very very difficult to STOP doing. At least not safely and voluntarily.
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Since one of the safety features would be to stop moving when you are horizontal, running into a barrier and falling over seems like an easy way to complete the race rather than trying to code multiple stop conditions that need to be tested.
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There's nothing particularly interesting or surprising about it. The barrier is there to protect the robots from damage, and to protect the spectators and the stadium from damage. These are experimental machines and weigh enough that they could cause damage or injure someone.
The stretchers are for the same reason, basically. The robots have to be autonomous, with the only remote control being a kill switch to make them inert, for safety reasons. To prevent the teams having to go onto the track to recover th
Tech companies are picking up their phones... (Score:3)
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Surely we can get "GAP Insurnance?"
Woopie (Score:2)
Re:Woopie (Score:4, Informative)
In terms of technological innovations, it is noteworthy. Very much in the spirit of Slashdot's "News for nerds, stuff that matters."
Wow! that's a fast machine (Score:2)
24 mph is almost as fast as someone moderately out of shape on a bicycle.
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24 mph is almost as fast as someone moderately out of shape on a bicycle.
On an e-bike or going downhill, maybe. A person has to be in relatively good physical condition and an experienced cyclist to maintain 24 mph along level ground.
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You're right. My numbers are a bit off. For someone average and not great shape they could perhaps sustain 100 W, and would have a speed of around 15 mph on a 100 m run. If someone was a decent athlete, perhaps an amateur that races some times, they might be able to sustain 350 W, which gets them up to 25 mph on 100 m run.
I usually cruise around 20 mph (more like 40 mph down the hills, where I am keeping up with country road traffic). Just big heavy bike, no toe clips, no e-bike, etc. I'm not in particularl
Re:Wow! that's a fast (Score:2)
Incorrect comparison. You'd need to compare to a robot also on wheels. But if we're mismatching transport modes, we could compare the out of shape cyclist to the fastest self-guided drone.
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Paper airplanes have almost hit the 100 meter mark for flight (98.43 meters by Liu Liwen). I'm not sure how fast such a paper airplane flies, but that's also an impressive bit of trivia.
You're under arrest (Score:2)
Next come data-driven robot soldiers like in Star Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSk3WawBZ5c
It is not that far-fetched now.
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Nope, though it was amusing watching the boxing robots. The one round house kicked the other but instead of the one being kicked going down, the kicker just fell and couldn't get up. The other one that took the hit just stood there.
Ok. (Score:2)
I'm surprised... (Score:2)
I would have figured this would have happened a long time ago, shocked it took until now to have a machine beat a human at running bipedal.
We aren't even the fastest bipedal animal.
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We aren't even the fastest bipedal animal.
Correct. That distinction belongs to the ostrich, with a top land-speed of 45 mph (72 km/h.)
Extrapolating (Score:3)
Pretty sure they will be able to do it in 6s soon, about what the fastest mammals can do.
At 4.5 seconds you're accelerating at 1G on average, and you're running so there would be an air phase. So the design will have to start paying special care to grip.
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I can sort of see how working on getting bipedal robots moving faster than humans - and doing it well - might provide useful information to robotic companies, given the sort of roles they're developing these robots for.
But I'm not sure what the practical advantages would be in pushing them to cheetah speeds, for instance. At that point, why bother with bipedal versions? There are better, more stable means of locomotion.
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It's an engineering challenge but not that practical because purposeful design won at the speed task with the invention of the wheel. Most every narrow use case has a better solution than humans many broader ones as well. Even reasoning in a narrow scope is now likely best done by an AI (or will be) if it is repetitive enough to have the overwhelming amount of training data (something humans do way better at, finding a good heuristic from minimal data and applying unrelated data well.)
Fast is also an easie
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Hence some designs incorporating legs and wheels like an autobot.
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I suppose they want some combination of acquiring a broad skillset and showing it off. Just these robot games already have dozens of competitions going on.
And do they want robots that can run fast? I think so . As a kid I already imagined all terrain walking machines that could move real fast.
Um, runners have been stretchered off too (Score:3)
Um, runners have been stretchered off too. Some of them after marathons and such can't even stand and people have to hold their legs to stop the spasms.
So this tracks.
slashdotted (Score:2)
Looks like the event's website is getting slashdotted because I can't load anything... :/
https://www.whrgoc.com/ [whrgoc.com]
Can it fold laundry? (Score:3)
I mean, running faster is not that impressive, cars, bikes, motorcycles all go faster than a human.
If the robot had taken a load of laundry out of the dryer and folded it, that would be impressive. Running? Meh
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and a bonus round Could AI End Humanity in Five Years? Ronny Chieng Investigates https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
So? (Score:3)
So? My '67 Chevy was faster than Usain Bolt, too, or for that matter, the Chevy Bolt.
Who cares? (Score:2)
Walking on two legs is not a smart mode of locomotion for a machine.
They don't corner real well. (Score:3)
Check Out The Videos (Score:4, Interesting)
I encourage you to take a short trip down the rabbit hole and look at some of the videos from this event.
The capabilities of these robots is amazing.
Their spectacular failures are gut bustingly hilarious.
The speed and capability of these machines is quite unsettling as they run, jump, dance, fight...
The number of these machines is shocking. Soooo many! They have a fucking army of humanoid robots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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What useful tasks robot can perform by walking instead of driving? It is engineering effort wasted on useless function for machine.
How far we've come (Score:2)
It's funny to think that not long ago just getting a bipedal robot to even walk was difficult. WABOT-1 took it's first steps in 1973 and looked like it was made from and Erector set and needed wires to connect it to it's power and control systems. It walked about as well as an old windup kids toy on a flat surface.
The Honda P2 was the first self contained robot that could walk and was introduced in 1996. It walked about as well as a 1950's sci-fi movie showing walking robots.
Honda ASIMO in 2000 was a bit m
Humanoid? (Score:2)
What are the parameters?
How much energy to do that? (Score:3)
A human runs about 100 watts to a few hundred watts with extreme athletes hitting peaks of 2,000 watts.
How fast can these machines run if limited to the same power?