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The Capitol Hill Reader's avatar

Bringing me back to Battle Bots! Great read.

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mark's avatar
1dEdited

Popcorn machines, about as exciting as watching paint dry. Real robot violence is Survival Research Labs since 1978. Dont be fooled by cheap imitations.

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Cix's avatar

ok boomer

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mark's avatar
1hEdited

Is that an invitation to run a bunch of our machines/robots at one of your events? Cool!

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Cix's avatar

Great article! thanks Ashlee!

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Thomas 'Precision Tom' Ciszek's avatar

An American storyline riding on Chinese hardware. I'll put money on whoever solves sub-50ms latency

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Howard's avatar

Would love to hear more about the china lead on these - how are optimus and figure robots doing compared to unitree?

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Ashlee Vance's avatar

It's my understanding that lots - but not all - of US humanoid companies are using actuators from China. I don't know that Tesla is. Am told Figure is. More to the point, the US companies are keeping their bots to themselves. Unitree is selling to lots of folks. You can see where this goes if they get to the broadest volume.

The US still has a chance. There's just much more activity and underlying hardware in China.

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