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  • axx@slrpnk.net
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    19 days ago

    This looks sad. The obsession with humanoid robots is making less and less sense by the decade.

    Support your local robot battle scene.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      The obsession is actually in search of new tech markets to dominate. AI race, Ev Race, Solar Panel race, gig-economy race. There’s so much money and “realpolitik” in each of these. Sometimes early investments pay off like EV industry and sometimes they absolutely do not - gig economy race for example.

      This seems like new reality - chase to dominate big general markets and China is absolutely winning everything from EVs and solar panels to literally fishing out every fish out of existence within the next few decades if not less.

      This is really bad.

  • ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    I guess it is like watching toddlers walk, but why the random breakout into dance moves? Also how do they target? Seems like they just generally point at the other one.

    • Björn@swg-empire.de
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      20 days ago

      My guess is that they are remote controlled and the operators of the white robot saw that they were winning, so they hit the dance button in the hopes of scoring some points with the audience.

      Instead of fighting each other they should do a laundry folding competition. That would be really impressive!

  • bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Are they autonomous or do they have pilots? I feel like a human touch would make the fights a lot cooler. Like in that one Love, Death and Robots episode.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      It’s fully autonomous, and it’s just an ad for China’s upcoming robot industry. There are a lot of events like that from dancing, to fighting to just doing chores. So it’s not really a market on its own to justify more investments and refinement - it’s just a meme.

      I do wonder though whether something more permanent could be here but we already have Robot Wars which is better in every possible way - human controlled and not limited to human-like robots.

  • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    They way they get up is pretty cool, but they each have one jump kick attack and nothing else? Those deathbot matches from the early aughts are way cooler.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
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    20 days ago

    “What?! Your heads off!”

    “Tis’ but a flesh wound! HAVE AT YEE!”

    *I love how one of the presenters is choke-laughing the whole time after it’s head comes off

    • Monument@piefed.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      I feel like that should be disqualifying. Or at least, the robots should be compelled to use the swinging head as a mace.

  • dave@feddit.ukEnglish
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    20 days ago

    They seem to do more damage to themselves when falling over than actually inflicting anything on their opponent…

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      It doesn’t look like they’re autonomous to me, it looks like they have a pre-programmed set of movements (like the kick-variants we’re seeing, and the “get up” motion), and being controlled by someone outside the ring. That also fits with the way they’re missing: it’s hard to get proper alignment when you’re looking from the side, and the pattern for how they’re missing looks a lot to me like how you often miss if you try to line up e.g. a remote controlled toy car on an opening to drive through when you’re sitting off to the side.