Doesn’t seem like the Chinese ones are as advanced as Atlas from Boston Dynamics. Check this fella out!
Comment on China's humanoid robot firms make up half of exhibitors at CES 2026
MBech@feddit.dk 2 months ago
For some reason I’m confident the chinese robots are better than the american ones.
miseducator@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which is now owned by Hyundai.
infeeeee@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Which is South Korean
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 months ago
It’s our Chinese against their Chinese.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Unitree, even judging from dance/kung fu demos, but also for price and availability seems far ahead. 10k humanoid shipments in 2025. Agibot about the same volume. They both have open development environments, afaiu. Atlas $160k vapourware future price, or especially mechahitler controlled $250k price on closed systems will be hard sales compared to expected Chinese/Unitree progress.
miseducator@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure, price is cheaper on smaller robots with little practical function.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You’re right that in demos, atlas focuses on practical tasks, and it does have great hands. I have seen the Chinese bots sort items from a conveyor belt and fold clothes. Given the price gap, I think China could add good hands and be competitive, but as an open platform, its similar to early PCs, and customers could dream about adding hands. It’s a huge deal to ship stuff for sale to anyone. The big lead china has is in the motor miniaturization, it seems to me.
comparisons that make Atlas look better than the video included in my response. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3NkPU9nSr
Substance_P@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wasn’t it been controlled by a person in the audience? We need a “RoboCop” style demonstration for us to know what autonomous looks like.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
or choreographed. Definitely not a task demo, although they have made some.
NEILSON_MANDALA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
everyone says the chinese bots are superior as you don’t ask them what happened in tiananmen square in 1989
MBech@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Does Tiananmen Square have anything to do with Chinas ability to create robots?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This was at CES, it’s basically one massive advertisement for trendy bs. Most of the american firms represented were there for AI, since the push for consumer robotics is mostly a dying fad in the US and AI is the hot new thi f.