Robots have come a long way in just the past couple of years, with Boston Dynamics’ robots now providing utility out in the wild. However, AI is now changing the game and this Chinese robotics company is shifting away from quadrupedal to bipedal humanoid robots, all thanks to AI.
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00:00 Robots have come a long way in just the past couple of years, with Boston Dynamics robot
00:08 now providing utility out in the wild.
00:11 But now artificial intelligence is changing the game, and now this Chinese robotics company
00:15 is shifting from quadrupedal to bipedal humanoid robots, all thanks to AI.
00:21 This is Wang Jingjing, developer of the new H1 robot.
00:25 The automaton stands nearly 6 feet tall and weighs just over 100 pounds.
00:29 The robot is already quite functional, able to handle walking over different terrain types.
00:33 However, the team have only been developing the bot for around 6 months.
00:37 Wang says this speed in development was driven largely by new advances in AI, with the company's
00:42 CEO saying, "Rather than programming new individual movements, a labor-intensive process,
00:47 the robot instead learns like a human might," with H1 recently teaching itself how to raise
00:52 its hand and walk up stairs, meaning they expect the robot to continue with its rapid
00:57 improvement, and who knows what the robot will be able to do next.
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