What's this "we", puny human?
From ScvienceAlert, August 17:
Watch Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, and it's easy to believe the robot revolution is here.
From the outside, it seems the only remaining challenge is perfecting the AI ( artificial intelligence) software to enable these machines to handle real-life environments.
But the industry's biggest players know there is a deeper problem. In a recent call for research partnerships, Sony's robotics division highlighted a core issue holding back its own machines.
It noted that today's humanoid and animal-mimicking robots have a "limited number of joints", which creates a "disparity between their movements and those of the subjects they imitate, significantly diminishing their … value"....
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This, as the First World Humanoid Robot Games wrap up in Beijing. From China's outward-facing propaganda organ, Global Times, August 17:
....In highlight events, Unitree Robotics clinched gold medals in the 1,500 meters, 400 meters, 4x100 meters relay and 100-meter hurdles. Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robots's the Tiangong Ultra robot won the 100-meter sprint with a time of 21.50 seconds. In 5v5 football final, Tsinghua University's Hephaestus team defeated Germany's HTWK Robotics+Nao Devils 1-0 to claim the title, while China Agricultural University Mountain &Sea team secured the 3v3 football championship....
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Here's a minute from the Associated Press:
In many ways the robots don't seem to have advanced that much since our November 2012 post "Robot Soccer Goes Big Time":
The rule of thumb in soccer betting, bot or human, is "NEVER ever take the over".
And the Chinese announcers certainly aren't as into "the beauty, the grace, the almost effortless athletic ability" as these two in the older spectacle.
If interested here is 100 minutes of highlights: