That Unitree G1 [1] in the video starts at $16k, which surprised me. I’m guessing end effectors drive that price way up but it feels like we are maybe a decade away from useful household humanoid robots for the price of a cheap car, which would put it well within the means of many in the developed world.<p>Does anyone have any insight on how realistically far away the control and programming is from that reality? A bunch of very impressive robotic control model research has been posted on HN in the last two years but as an outsider it’s hard to evaluate just how close we are to doing away with folding clothes by general purpose humanoid robot.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.unitree.com/mobile/g1" rel="nofollow">https://www.unitree.com/mobile/g1</a>
While impressive at first, this still needs depth, i.e. the movements resemble the sample, but there is a giant lack of details (information) in those movements.<p>They are more of a "compressed version of a common denominator for these movements". I.e. while sample walking seems more joyful and proud, aking to strutting, the robot one seems akin to stumbling.<p>Looking at the fighting movements - the nuances not picked up by the simulation and the robot are highly important and are what makes the punch a punch instead of a weird shove, what makes a good stance vs bad stance. Just like the walking nuances swing it from "happy" to "drunk" to "threatening", so do they for others.<p>While I understand the issue of compression from
"real movement -> digitally constrained simulation -> physically constrainted robot", just want to bring it up as attention to those details will probably be important to general training. While at this stage it is not that big of a deal, in any kind of real environment they will define the human-robot interaction and robot-env interaction.<p>Otherwise great job!
Compared with other robots, it looks very impressive. Compared with living things, it looks ... well, could be better. Compared with human waltz dancers - I'd say it was a bad idea to use this as a reference.
That's impressive! Between the advancement in robotics, chat/voice AI, and image generation it's going to become so hard to distinguish fiction from reality in a few years. You'll just have to see things in person to trust they are real.
Most of the folks on modern AI/robotics paper have Asian names.<p>It seems Asian tiger countries may lead the next century. They are very hungry to win the solar, battery, EV, robotics race.<p>Impressive results.
I don't understand which things are real and which are simulations.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/sE4cEfhVOdE?si=FYXrtt-lvr0EEqtV&t=48" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/sE4cEfhVOdE?si=FYXrtt-lvr0EEqtV&t=48</a><p>That part of the video has been heavily edited somehow, at the very least.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/sE4cEfhVOdE?si=OsHygaSqG_mgjygp&t=93" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/sE4cEfhVOdE?si=OsHygaSqG_mgjygp&t=93</a><p>Also looks fake to me.