Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months agoIt says exceed human performance, not exceed the peak humans in a given discipline.
Could Kiptum, race an F1 car as fast as Lewis Hamilton?
Could Lionel Messi play basketball like peak Kobe?
Sure the headline is hyperbole, but I don’t think we still should compare things like this.
bestagon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hyperbole is an understatement, the headline is obviously just trying to generate clicks. Idk how else we should quantify “human performance” though. Should we compare it’s strength to a sedentary office worker instead? I think the marathon comparison is actually very generous because I doubt this thing can even replicate a reasonable facsimile of a soccer performance.
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Indeed. And lots of normal human beings are able to run marathon. Pretty easy if you set your mind to.