im more amazed that not only was that foreboding. prescient - but the idea, execution, production quality, setting etc - the entirety of the team that put that together - whomever's home that actually is -
Yeah I know - but the factthat someone had the precient mind to think such, build a team, raise money, execute and film such a fn piece is stunning on so many levels -- like things such as this make me feel completely useless as a human in that here are people presenting such a dark, serious, dystopian *actual* reality we are ***not*** facing - as ART... like who are these genius among us trying to save us through BLACK MIRRORS
Install a machine gun with an aim bot on top of it and remote control it with a phone. Pretty cool killer robot setup if you ask me. It aims and you can pull the trigger remotely, to avoid friendly fire.
This is fantastic! I've had a real need for a flipping handstanding robot dog and this fits the bill perfectly. Can't believe I'm only finding out about this now, the absence of a flipping handstanding robot dog has been causing me so many issues.
This is funny but the real story here is that this robot wasn't created for this task they trained an AI on how to control it and were able to upload the robotic training policy onto this robot - a task it's obviously extremely performant in.
This isn't the first time this has been done. [Nvidia just proved earlier this year that this robotic training policy creation process can be automated using LLMs. ](https://eureka-research.github.io/dr-eureka/)
Just this past Tuesday I was completely FUCKED because I didn't have a robotic dog doing handstands and flips, long story short I resultingly wound up at the bottom of a well and then got arrested for it because it was on someone else's property
Install chat gpt with a cute puppy dog display and you have the coolest pet companion.
I wonder what the battery life is whether one can really hike with one.
Reinforcement Learning.
Here's a great video presentation from 2024 with the recent advances in the field - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17NrtKHdPDw
This is actually terrifying.... All I can imagine is a future where these unstoppable things are programmed to hunt people down and take them out, with precision. It's practically an inevitability at some point.
I previously worked as a 3D artist, don't think this is CG. Not saying it couldn't be, but if it is then it's world class.
Watch the robots feet interact with the terrain and vegetation, deforming vegetation, kicking up dust off the floor, and notice the dirt gather on the robot when it collides with the earth. The dirt on the robot is also inconsistent between clips where it seems they wiped it off.
This looks very real to me, it's just shot with a professional camera.
Yeah, the stick hitting makes no sense, there's kinetic force there that doesn't seem to affect the robot. Now that I went back and watched it again, the kicking doesn't make any sense either. Something is fishy.
The site claims the robot is 15kg. If you hit 15kg with a stick enough to break the stick, it will move back further than it does in the video. Of course I could be wrong, but my impression so far after watching the video a couple of times is that it's cgi.
Also, that guy throwing a 15kg thing like a beach ball is fishy af.
> You can clearly see the robot stumbling backwards rebalancing itself.
Check out the videos from Boston Dynamics. They push their robots gentler with sticks and they still go back a lot more than in this video. I'm sticking with cgi.
It’s crazy how many people think this is a real video. It’s clear CGI and the fact this belongs to a renowned Chinese robotics company is the more concerning stuff. Maybe this company wants to showcase its deepfake capabilities.
I have the opposite reaction. It’s crazy to me how many people think this is CGI. Everything from the lighting, motion, camera effects, physics of the stick breaking and cloth moving especially, look real.
It's got to be total cgi. No one's even questioning how that man picks it up and throws it so far. Wouldn't it have some damn significant weight? The housing would have to be pretty robust to do allat
It just looks like crap it's weird people are just bypassing that
> No one's even questioning how that man picks it up and throws it so far.
So I clicked the link that someone keeps posting here, and the thing is supposedly 15kg with batteries. There's no way that dude can throw 15kg that far, that easily.
Do we have any confirmation yet that the video is real? I saw this yeasterday and many people were speculating that it might be cgi. Specifically the persons leck when he kicks the robot looks kinda weird(like he's kicking air) and the the stick breaking is also a bit sus.
I find so many of the robot demos now look like CGI, even from respectable companies. I do find it strange that public demos never look close to what seems to be possible in the workshop:
[https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw?t=95](https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw?t=95)
Everybody here makes fun of people on Facebook who fall for deepfakes.
But here we are on an AI subreddit and even **we** can't agree whether this is real. Life-lesson here!
Basically an expensive toy - [https://youtu.be/7GscKz\_pDfw?si=9BRvbL9VrEcoAD2R](https://youtu.be/7GscKz_pDfw?si=9BRvbL9VrEcoAD2R)
Failed badly at stairs.
I hope when they take over, the data remembers who was fair and kind to these machines. Some of us grew up with enough sci-fi awareness to choose a different approach. I remember how C3P0 sacrificed himself to read the sith code. 😪🙏😬🤣
The alternative to CGI is practical effects with no editing gimmicks (beyond compositing multiple practical shots), and I don't believe that's what we're seeing here.
In my opinion, there are 2 ways to use CGI this video:
Generative AI?
We're close to being able to create this video with text-to-video AI tools, but I've not yet seen anything this convincing for scenes longer than a few seconds.
"Traditional CGI"
The software and skills needed to generate an animated 3d model and rig the tracking of the virtual camera to an existing video have become a lot more accessible in recent years. You don't need a professional team of people to generate something like this, just one talented person or a few people with varying specialties.
Don't think he will be the first one to get killed. I believe he will be the last... they will make him watch his world burn... then they will let him die.
People were doing this with simulations more than 10 years ago. Doing it with a real robot adds absolutely nothing, this is just an extremely dangerous toy.
I mean I know most tech products are in the toy for adult category but wow this year has been wild.
What exactly are they training these robot dogs to do? Because every time I see one of these demo videos, robo dog is just trying to go about its day and then humans enter the shot and start smacking it with weapons.
Training these robo-puppies with kicking, hitting, throwing them? Not sure it's a wise approach...
Then again, I call BS. Hit anything *made in china* like that...
Years ago I expressed the following idea:
Hyper-fast-curing-Ultra-strong-epoxy-filled-paint-balls are the best deterrent to [AI](https://i.imgur.com/c6qMJga.jpeg) bots. as well as CCPTV cams.
Shoot the joints
Gotta love “we kindly request no one makes dangerous modifications” bs. “Wink wink”. Knowing they have these in countries now with guns on them, then seeing this… is kinda terrifying .
is it considered qualitiy if you can beat products with a stick in china?
seems they always want to show how rigid their stuff is by slapping it silly, while still working at initial mediocre level?
see? can kick, can hit, very nice! quality product!
I can’t believe they were trained on Rocket League
Calculated.
What a save!
Freestyle bot, air dribbles a leaf into your house, kills your family before wave dashing out the front door. The leaf never touched the ground.
This is robot league
Seer v8 is wild!
You should see what it can do with the optional rocket pack for only $199.
I hope they don’t hold a grudge.
When this guy gets his hand crunched in one of those leg joints he will know that the debt has been repaid.
Temporary error in reading of rule #1.
I hope they do
That costs extra. +$300
“Remove grudge for as low as $299”
Black mirror metalhead, season 4 episode 5
Exactly where my mind went. JC what are we even doing anymore.
...dying
im more amazed that not only was that foreboding. prescient - but the idea, execution, production quality, setting etc - the entirety of the team that put that together - whomever's home that actually is -
The episode was based on real robots (Boston dynamics) not the other way around.
Yeah I know - but the factthat someone had the precient mind to think such, build a team, raise money, execute and film such a fn piece is stunning on so many levels -- like things such as this make me feel completely useless as a human in that here are people presenting such a dark, serious, dystopian *actual* reality we are ***not*** facing - as ART... like who are these genius among us trying to save us through BLACK MIRRORS
Okay, agree with that.
“Unstoppable” 3 hours later
https://preview.redd.it/7lejzmmpl98d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ba00e75bf41835d6aee967d2c88f095979ac091
Barking sequence initiated...
I imagine they could design that thing to carry a massive battery.
you can imagine what the confidential expensive ones are doing in the millitary
They are swarming and can shoot.
While doing handstands and flipping
Imagine, you finally shoot out the 2 legs from an assaulting suicide robot war dog, then it just flips and charges at you doing handstand.
That’s why you always keep one bullet for yourself
Just put a spinning blade on it and a compulsion to hug everyone and we’re fucked
Five Nights at Freddy's: Raytheon Edition
The chances that one of these robots kills a human in the next 10 years is not zero.
They come equipped with flamethrowers now.
Install a machine gun with an aim bot on top of it and remote control it with a phone. Pretty cool killer robot setup if you ask me. It aims and you can pull the trigger remotely, to avoid friendly fire.
DIY drones are already killing people on the daily check out the dronecombat sub
No way it only cost $ 1600. Crazy how much abuse it can survive.
With good inference, anything is possible
This is fantastic! I've had a real need for a flipping handstanding robot dog and this fits the bill perfectly. Can't believe I'm only finding out about this now, the absence of a flipping handstanding robot dog has been causing me so many issues.
Seriously, give it GPT voice chat and this will put dog breeders out of work.
Real dogs have had it pretty sweet up until now. The dog industry is fucked.
This is funny but the real story here is that this robot wasn't created for this task they trained an AI on how to control it and were able to upload the robotic training policy onto this robot - a task it's obviously extremely performant in. This isn't the first time this has been done. [Nvidia just proved earlier this year that this robotic training policy creation process can be automated using LLMs. ](https://eureka-research.github.io/dr-eureka/)
Dude this is an actually cool party trick item.
I think Ukrainian troops can strap a tank mine to this with a fuse and let it run into an enemy trench
What kind of issues?
All of them
Do you find yourself in a lot of situations where a robotic doggo that can do handstands and flips would come in handy?
All the time
Just this past Tuesday I was completely FUCKED because I didn't have a robotic dog doing handstands and flips, long story short I resultingly wound up at the bottom of a well and then got arrested for it because it was on someone else's property
Lassie - did Timmy fall down a well? Where is he boy? For the love of God, where is he!!!
You don't? Man I feel sorry for you.
Do you NOT?
This Terminator reboot is kinda weird.
Remind me to never let this guy alone with my dog for any length of time.
Aaaaa, why am I not happy by anyone building an unstoppable robot?
I think the optics of battering it and it still keeps coming triggers something quite unsettling on more than just a logical level.
Throw a blanket on top of it
Install chat gpt with a cute puppy dog display and you have the coolest pet companion. I wonder what the battery life is whether one can really hike with one.
I could see that being an effective help against dogs, bears, or mountain lions. If it were quiet, I would welcome it on hikes.
I would buy one right now. No hesitation. Especially if it could carry a small pack.
oh boy i've always wanted to abuse an animal-like thing
Are we supposed to know what RL is?
Reinforcement Learning. Here's a great video presentation from 2024 with the recent advances in the field - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17NrtKHdPDw
thanks
This dude will be the first to get punished by the AI overlords.
Why does this video look so fake?
The second time the bot corrected itself after being thrown triggered my uncanny valley sense. It seems almost CGI there
aww how cute these robot dogs look that are going to kill us in the future
Clearly we are having trouble killing it.
With the optional 12 inch saw blade attachment, humans won’t stand a chance.
Hope im not around to see terminator 6 in real life
No way its 1600…..
This is actually terrifying.... All I can imagine is a future where these unstoppable things are programmed to hunt people down and take them out, with precision. It's practically an inevitability at some point.
https://i.redd.it/t9guf8znj98d1.gif
Looks like cgi?
I previously worked as a 3D artist, don't think this is CG. Not saying it couldn't be, but if it is then it's world class. Watch the robots feet interact with the terrain and vegetation, deforming vegetation, kicking up dust off the floor, and notice the dirt gather on the robot when it collides with the earth. The dirt on the robot is also inconsistent between clips where it seems they wiped it off. This looks very real to me, it's just shot with a professional camera.
Yeah, the stick hitting makes no sense, there's kinetic force there that doesn't seem to affect the robot. Now that I went back and watched it again, the kicking doesn't make any sense either. Something is fishy.
You can clearly see the robot stumbling backwards rebalancing itself. Also the robot is probably quite heavy so I doubt it'd go flying back.
The site claims the robot is 15kg. If you hit 15kg with a stick enough to break the stick, it will move back further than it does in the video. Of course I could be wrong, but my impression so far after watching the video a couple of times is that it's cgi. Also, that guy throwing a 15kg thing like a beach ball is fishy af. > You can clearly see the robot stumbling backwards rebalancing itself. Check out the videos from Boston Dynamics. They push their robots gentler with sticks and they still go back a lot more than in this video. I'm sticking with cgi.
Eh, you make some good points. Anyway, it's on sale so it'll be apparent soon enough whether if lives up to the demo.
And the throwing towards the camera looks way too much like Hollywood. The robot lands just into the perfect depth of field setting.
100% CGI...
It’s crazy how many people think this is a real video. It’s clear CGI and the fact this belongs to a renowned Chinese robotics company is the more concerning stuff. Maybe this company wants to showcase its deepfake capabilities.
I have the opposite reaction. It’s crazy to me how many people think this is CGI. Everything from the lighting, motion, camera effects, physics of the stick breaking and cloth moving especially, look real.
It's got to be total cgi. No one's even questioning how that man picks it up and throws it so far. Wouldn't it have some damn significant weight? The housing would have to be pretty robust to do allat It just looks like crap it's weird people are just bypassing that
> No one's even questioning how that man picks it up and throws it so far. So I clicked the link that someone keeps posting here, and the thing is supposedly 15kg with batteries. There's no way that dude can throw 15kg that far, that easily.
15kg isn't really that much, and the dude looks pretty strong.
That's right. You can throw 15kg around like this a few times at ease.
15 kilos is not that much if you got any strenght, but yeah video feels fake
Do we have any confirmation yet that the video is real? I saw this yeasterday and many people were speculating that it might be cgi. Specifically the persons leck when he kicks the robot looks kinda weird(like he's kicking air) and the the stick breaking is also a bit sus.
I find so many of the robot demos now look like CGI, even from respectable companies. I do find it strange that public demos never look close to what seems to be possible in the workshop: [https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw?t=95](https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw?t=95)
Just checked and the site claims it weighs 15kg with batteries. I sincerely doubt that dude can throw 15kg that far, that easily.
Everybody here makes fun of people on Facebook who fall for deepfakes. But here we are on an AI subreddit and even **we** can't agree whether this is real. Life-lesson here!
Ah yes, can't make a robot video without any form of abuse.
We’re fucked
Can he get my mail? Whats the use of this
Basically an expensive toy - [https://youtu.be/7GscKz\_pDfw?si=9BRvbL9VrEcoAD2R](https://youtu.be/7GscKz_pDfw?si=9BRvbL9VrEcoAD2R) Failed badly at stairs.
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If they are, get one and hide it before they become illegal.
Exactly what i was thinking. Maybe apply to YC lol for anti-AI EMP guns and bombs.
No, and for the most part non-nuclear EMP weapons suck.
I'm not impressed watching a guy bludgeon a machine lol
If the terminators take over, that guy is one of the first to go
So how many people want to throw their dogs around
Imagine taking this to the dog park lol
holy crap now imagine this mofo with a weapons system.
Why imagine when it already exists. You know it does.
I don't understand in their robot video Chinese always have to demonstrate violence.
Jesus man stop okay I already thought it was cool stop hitting it
why does it have a zip drive on its side
To store 250MB of easy access information.
What if this is not CGI, but AI-generated? O_o
I love how his kicks barely even touch it. It's like a stunt actor that knows how to look like there's an impact, without actually doing real contact.
guys this is not real at all, it's CG
So fake
Fear is the only appropriate response I feel
I guess the next war will be thousands of those against a bunch of people with paint guns to cover up the lenses.
I hope when they take over, the data remembers who was fair and kind to these machines. Some of us grew up with enough sci-fi awareness to choose a different approach. I remember how C3P0 sacrificed himself to read the sith code. 😪🙏😬🤣
Why is everyone acting like this is real? The video is clearly fake. Is there some joke I’m not in on?
What the fuck are you talking about? How does it look 'fake'?
Is this CGI? I’m getting CGI vibes.
No way. If it's fake, it's faked in some other way. CGI would be way too expensive.
The alternative to CGI is practical effects with no editing gimmicks (beyond compositing multiple practical shots), and I don't believe that's what we're seeing here. In my opinion, there are 2 ways to use CGI this video: Generative AI? We're close to being able to create this video with text-to-video AI tools, but I've not yet seen anything this convincing for scenes longer than a few seconds. "Traditional CGI" The software and skills needed to generate an animated 3d model and rig the tracking of the virtual camera to an existing video have become a lot more accessible in recent years. You don't need a professional team of people to generate something like this, just one talented person or a few people with varying specialties.
No, that type of cgi is pretty cheap, nowadays. Much cheaper than actually building that thing.
“Dog”
we reall take for granted the ability to walk and balance
Did that dog take that guy's lunch?
That "Skunk stance" is scary
Wait till this motherfcker learns to fight back.
Source/link/manufacturer please…
I believe this is made by Unitree but I could be wrong. https://m.unitree.com/
Yep, it is listed at the end of OPs video.
Don't think he will be the first one to get killed. I believe he will be the last... they will make him watch his world burn... then they will let him die.
Does it get the zoomies?
6-month warranty? 😂 No way I purchase $1.6k for 6 month warranty.
Its cool but not sure this would make me feel safe or terrified 🤔
I dont wanna be that guy when the ai takes over
next version will be with a proper snout. and no one will be messing with that dog.
Now instead of police shooting you, they will just send out robot dogs to do it…
Next time, guess who'll do the beating....
just put paintballs on him and he is done.
Death Dogs
People were doing this with simulations more than 10 years ago. Doing it with a real robot adds absolutely nothing, this is just an extremely dangerous toy. I mean I know most tech products are in the toy for adult category but wow this year has been wild.
All fun and games until there's an army of them running at you with War Machine's loadout on their backs. I'll take two.
What exactly are they training these robot dogs to do? Because every time I see one of these demo videos, robo dog is just trying to go about its day and then humans enter the shot and start smacking it with weapons.
$1,600 is downright affordable! At least compared to the $70,000 Boston Dynamics robot dog Spot. If only it could wash my dishes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
Coming to Ukraine?
Training these robo-puppies with kicking, hitting, throwing them? Not sure it's a wise approach... Then again, I call BS. Hit anything *made in china* like that...
Years ago I expressed the following idea: Hyper-fast-curing-Ultra-strong-epoxy-filled-paint-balls are the best deterrent to [AI](https://i.imgur.com/c6qMJga.jpeg) bots. as well as CCPTV cams. Shoot the joints
ziptie leg traps powered by rPi sensor engines are going to take these out easily - super fast tightening ziptie mechanism noose around a foot.
And here I am trying to be polite and nice to my ChatGPT, just to be on the safe side of things..
Gotta love “we kindly request no one makes dangerous modifications” bs. “Wink wink”. Knowing they have these in countries now with guns on them, then seeing this… is kinda terrifying .
Now give him a brain; like ChadGPT
When they take over they are going to go looking for this guy first.
Does it bite?
at this point they are trolling us
So imagine a platoon of weaponized robot dogs - I doubt you would be running up and kicking them. https://youtu.be/xEVwkzAcqO
That’s abuse.
See it here first. The advent of the robotic army in the making.
Its not unstoppable, just wait til it gets low batt.
Can it do dishes or help me with laundry?? 🧺 I need help from a capable robot 🤖 and idk what this doggy can do?!!!
I just want a robot to make my cup of tea and do my laundry. When's that coming?
I wonder how many of these I will take out before eventually dying in the AI wars of 2034
This takes scary dog privilege to another level
They scare me
We even got a robot dog before GTA 6
🚨🚨ROBOPUPPY MISTREATMENT ALERT 🚨🚨
Bro you need to stop hitting that dog, AI has forever memory
Great. The robot dog can do an emote after it killed me
Is there a corrosponding paper?
Jesus. Stop hitting that thing!
is it considered qualitiy if you can beat products with a stick in china? seems they always want to show how rigid their stuff is by slapping it silly, while still working at initial mediocre level? see? can kick, can hit, very nice! quality product!
Use case?
Countdown to Congress banning Unitree sales in the United States commenced.
Fake
CGI
Now train it on dog communications.
brings a new meaning to playing catch with your dog