World's First Front-Flippin' Humanoid Robot

Chinese robotics company Zhongqing Robotics (also known as Engine AI) posted a video of what is claimed to be the world's first humanoid robot front flip. New Atlas reports: Ten years ago, this kind of stuff simply did not exist. And now you can buy your very own open-source PM01 robot for US$13,700, according to EngineAI's website. Its specs aren't bad: 5-DoF (degrees of freedom) in each arm and six per leg. That's 23-DoF in body movement in total. The bot also boasts 221 lb-ft of torque (300 Nm), which seems like quite a punch when the little guy is only 4.5 ft (138 cm) tall and weighs 88 lb (40kg). You can watch the video here.

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Front vs Backflip

[InfiniteZero]

A front flip is a lot more difficult than a backflip. China is definitely leading the space.

Also check out this jaw dropping performance from Unitree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

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[nightflameauto]

A) That's freakin' amazing.

B) My mind instantly went to a scenario where a massive pack of those was flooding over the canyon wall with guns mounted on top to "take out the insurgents." Hollywood may return to practical effects soon if these things are available at a price less than paying CGI crews cost. And the government will probably be happy to buy them up for "reuse" after Hollywood is done shooting their horror movies filled with them.

But can it scrub a toilet?

[Tha_Zanthrax]

Sure, it will put a few circus performers out of business but it's not really a threat to the uneducated workforce yet.

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[backslashdot]

They need a dexterous hand for that, and that's basically impossible. Even if they can build the hand, the control and training system is impossible. The hand-brain coordinationhas 10 million years of perfection and precision with 27 degrees of freedom.

Re: But can it scrub a toilet?

[SuperDre]

Cleaning a toilet will be easy for a robot, especially with extra tools. These robots are created to make sure the robot can move, twist, bend etc like a human, then it's only a matter of adding extra software to steer the body, software which is also being created at the same time.

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[InfiniteZero]

They are getting there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

Is this the criteria?

[commodore73]

Is flipping the metric by which we will value the humanoid robot? Boys with their toys. #nexthype

Re: Is this the criteria?

[SuperDre]

It shows how agile their robot is. You'll need an agile robot to perform a lot of human tasks if you want it to do things like house chores. Software, driving the body of the robot, is pretty much the easy part these days.

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[commodore73]

Household tasks? You're living in a quantum reality.

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[SuperDre]

For consumers that will be the main reason why someone would buy a robot, doing all household chores and fixing stuff around the house.

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[commodore73]

It simply will never happen. Possible military (although unrealistic and expensive), possibly space travel. I don't see what else.

Maybe click the links here, on a platform that I today left behind:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts... [linkedin.com]

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[SuperDre]

it will happen, and even soon. A lot of people want a robot to even do basic cleaning etc, that why a lot of people already have vacuumrobots. Yeah, at first they won't be able to clean as good as a human would be able to do (but most cleaners don't actually clean properly either), but it sure is a step up from a vacuumrobot like a Roomba.

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[commodore73]

I have more doubts than belief. If someone laid out a timeline for humanoid domestic robots for anything other than temporary entertainment value, I would almost certainly take the bet, regardless of their estimated timeline. It's like asking an LLM to rewrite Linux in Rust, IMHO.

Re: Is this the criteria?

[zawarski]

Robot vacuum cleaners can not get into corners, under things, stairs. You know, the places where dirt and dust accumulate the most.

Re: Is this the criteria?

[SuperDre]

Right, and that's why people want a more humanoid robot which can reach those spots.

Cheated

[PleaseThink]

Awesome, though they cheated a bit. Humans can't rotate their arms straight backwards up to their head.

After a long day of Turing Tests

[zawarski]

You gotta unwind.

I need a humanoid robot

[snowshovelboy]

I need a humanoid robot like a fish needs a bicycle.