A robot cannot harm a person, at least according to the late science fiction writer. Isaac Asimov. This is a rule that the EngineAI T800 robot may have missed, as evidenced by the “fighting robot” violently beating his company's CEO in a video that went viral.
Apparently it's the season for running, punching, and kicking down doors with humanoid robots, a period that is closely tied to the time of staying safe and secure. hugging many humanoids covered in fabric.
In this Behind the Scenes production (above), the developers at EngineAI film the full capabilities of a human-sized robot.
However, these Chinese robot companies have a habit of taking their proof even further (perhaps too far). You may remember Iron, the humanoid robot that was so realistic that the company felt the need cut synthetic leather to prove that there was no person underneath.
However, the conclusive proof offered by EngineAI turned out to be truly… er… amazing.
Ugh!
EngineAI provided CEO Zhao Tongyang with enough additions and then let the T800 give him a good, heavy and, I would say, terrifying kick to the middle part. Naturally, Tongyang flew, although he looked more or less unharmed.
I came across these videos just a few days after seeing the latest updates from Fig AI. Figure 03 And Tesla Optimus. Both robots, according to the video, can now run like humans at speeds of up to 6 miles per hour.
By comparison, most people can run at that speed (fortunately, no robot has ever run at the Olympics). Usain Bolt an impressive speed of 23 mph).
The video comparing Figure 03 and Optima's gait is particularly instructive as it shows how both humanoids achieve true running; in short, for a split second, both feet leave the ground.
Optimus' overall running style is more natural. I believe the workout (or animation) was probably based more on real people rather than a programmer's guess as to what the body should look like during a full run.
This can't be good
So yeah, we're being chased by robots now, so maybe they can give us a good, hard kick. Maybe we deserve it. After all, there are countless videos. robot “bullying” in which developers attempt to push, knock over, and otherwise disrupt robots, all in the name of testing.
It was hard not to feel sorry for these robots, especially if, as people often do, they are anthropomorphized. They are not human, but the more they look and act like us, the more we attribute human emotions to them.
These videos turn that equation on its head. EngineAI in particular seems obsessed with creating a robot that can fight back, although the goal, at least for now, is not to fight us. In fact, in my opinion, most of this is a gimmick to promote the company's upcoming robot boxing match on December 24th. This match follows an earlier series of mecha fighting games that took place in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, East China.
These matches are remembered largely for the poor quality of the combat between robots. Most of the boxing bots were the size of a child, and many of them missed and fell.
If this is true, the T800 looks like a much more skilled and dangerous boxer, something of a poster child for our wildest dystopian fears about a robotic future.
Why roboticists are now creating running, punching, dangerous robots instead of what we need – robots that can empty a dishwasher in five minutes – is beyond me.
All those EngineAI T800 videos may be fake, but the intentions are real, and it's the opposite of what we want in our inevitable robotic future.
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