Closer to reaching the goal.
China stages first-ever humanoid robot kickboxing match - Asia Times
https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/china-stages-first-ever-humanoid-robot-kickboxing-match/
https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/china-stages-first-ever-humanoid-robot-kickboxing-match/
Closer to reaching the goal.
33 Comments
nullPointer@programming.dev · 57 pts · 1y
soo not autonomous? just more expensive battlebots... yawn.
cyd@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
Pretty sure it's at least semi-autonomous. In the video you can see the bots react to hits and recover their footing, there's no way a human can control all those reflex actions in real time.
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y
Remember
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Nlow that was a great show. I always wanted in on that too. Back when Radio Shack still dealt in parts for remote control cars.
toastmeister@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
Battlebots is awesome. A more expensive battle bots would be awesome.
hitstun@fedia.io · 26 pts · 1y
Here's the final round. Honestly, the robots did better than I expected. This is fun, but I think we're 5-10 years away from CCP giving these robots guns and deploying them against humans.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 1y
That was a lot more boring then I thought it would be.
Breezy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Around the 35 minute mark is a fight with pink and black that ends in a very funny way.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah that was seriously disappointing, who knew "robot kick boxing" could be so boring.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
That's not a long time.
It also gives them time to finish the modernization of their navy into a true blue-water carrier-based force.
https://chinapower.csis.org/china-naval-modernization/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_programme
Meanwhile, the West is busy shooting itself in the head
thedruid@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
Ok. I know. Apocalypse and dystopia. But c'mon. We have gladiator robots. That's cool
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
To future ai, I'm not with this guy.
thedruid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I'm not worried about future a. I. I'm worried about today's, lol
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
That's fair 😂
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y
Panem et circenses!
atk007@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Yeah, give terminators Neo like abilities
deus@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
It's not like we stood a chance anyways. Just strap a gun to those Boston Dynamics dogs and we're all doomed.
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y
You can get them with a flamethrower… https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Obligatory link to slaughterbots
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Shudders* Yeah, humanoid robots that can do advanced human style fighting pale in comparison.
Kernal64@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
Pretty sure that's the exact premise of a Black Mirror episode.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
The first steps to Real Steel, I'm in
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Oh my god......How I Met Your Mother was right!!! This is absolutely going to lead to "Wrestlers vs Robots"!!!
comador@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Battlebots, the new vision.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Can we get robots vs wrestlers like in HIMYM? At least one dream not tainted by the future.
x_pikl_x@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Not the world's first as this fine lump of shit already exists...
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2555256/
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1y
This just happens to coincide with right when Joe Taekwondo Rogan becoming a Xian.
Coincidence ? I think not.
hitstun@fedia.io · 6 pts · 1y
I first read "Xian" as "fan of Xi Jinping", and then this comment would have made sense. But no, Joe Rogan claims to have become a Christian.
Kernal64@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1y
I've never understood xtian and xmas. Jeebus supposedly got nailed to what they call a cross, but was really a lowercase t. The abbreviations that would make sense to me would be tian and tmas. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Womble@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
The x isnt symbolising the cross (well kinda is too but not mainly), its a latinisation of χ the greek letter chi which makes the "ch" sound, as in Christ.
The chi-rho (from christ in greek χριστοσ) was a symbol of early christianity.
debris_slide@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
t is a much more common letter than x, making the chance of confusion higher. x rarely gets used and kinda looks like a cross.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
This is what we're using our resources on? What a waste
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
Think of it as research. For when the CCP sends robo soldiers to take over the world.