The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real.
Welcome to the future!
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I didn't think family matters would get a reboot
They seem to do more damage to themselves when falling over than actually inflicting anything on their opponent…
That’s true of a few BattleBots contenders.
Funny, too.
I can picture these wearing cop uniforms, running you down at night for jaywalking ,and believe it may be one of our possible futures.
I’m pretty sure the odds of this are 100%. Except it’ll be military bots… and they’ll be purging the poor and middle class, because once you have robots to do all the other stuff the next step is to reduce the population.
If you and your group control all the raw resources and manufacturing is fully automated, and you have robots smart enough to do all the manual tasks, you don’t need profit, you get to wipe out most of the population and create your paradise.
Not enough people realize we are morlocks, and the Billionaires think they are the Eloi
But everything is driven by profit. I don't think the 1% will be able to pivot to reduced profit for better stability/comfort.
Profit only matters when you don’t already own everything, power is the only thing that matters.
But how quickly will hackers be able to gain total control of them? Cops will probably have the administrator password as "password123" or some shit. Or maybe instead of engaging in combat directly, they'll just be running humanoid cameras, lunging after you no matter how quickly you run, or whatever fence you jump over. Long gone will be the days when you could simply outrun the overweight, poorly trained cops. Now these things will be just inches behind you, the whole way blaring sirens and recording your every move. 😐
The spinning jump kick of the law.
Stop right there! Or I won't be able to jump kick you!
They fly now? They fly now.
Don't worry, they make them look like people as a silly game, we'll be chased down the street by drones.
The acronym immediately made me think of this.
I’d still put my money on a battle bot any day of the week.
I love battle bots
"What?! Your heads off!"
"Tis' but a flesh wound! HAVE AT YEE!"
*I love how one of the presenters is choke-laughing the whole time after it's head comes off
I feel like that should be disqualifying. Or at least, the robots should be compelled to use the swinging head as a mace.
This show is obviously just to bait people into making better fighting robots for the military, free of charge.
This looks sad. The obsession with humanoid robots is making less and less sense by the decade.
Support your local robot battle scene.
The obsession is actually in search of new tech markets to dominate. AI race, Ev Race, Solar Panel race, gig-economy race. There's so much money and "realpolitik" in each of these. Sometimes early investments pay off like EV industry and sometimes they absolutely do not - gig economy race for example.
This seems like new reality - chase to dominate big general markets and China is absolutely winning everything from EVs and solar panels to literally fishing out every fish out of existence within the next few decades if not less.
This is really bad.
Pointless if their heads don't pop straight up and make a "ziiiiiiing" sound.
So that's gonna be our future. Fighting robots that uncannily get back up with their head dangling on their back.
Best learn how to fashion an EMP cannon from household parts.
I guess it is like watching toddlers walk, but why the random breakout into dance moves? Also how do they target? Seems like they just generally point at the other one.
My guess is that they are remote controlled and the operators of the white robot saw that they were winning, so they hit the dance button in the hopes of scoring some points with the audience.
Instead of fighting each other they should do a laundry folding competition. That would be really impressive!
Indeed, a fitted sheet competition!
Sounds like a strong way to get the robots to want to kill us all
Looks real the same way WWE looks real. I mean, you gotta love the skill/tech used to achieve these feats, but real robots fighting with no restraint wouldn't need to take a few seconds to dick around after every kick.
Can we have Hugh Jackman pilot a robot?
He can't, he's busy fellating Rupert Murdoch.
What?
(Out of the loop. Don’t know how to unpack that statement.)
He's literally the godfather to Murdoch's daughter.
Well that’s fucking disappointing wtf
yeah seeing him dancing in those stupid fucking AGI commercials now makes me hate him. I tried to watch a cute movie called the Sheep Detectives, and as soon as I saw his dumb ass face I had to turn it off.
I know. :(
Still a great Logan, but hard to imagine Logan playing at/with billionaire balls like that.
They way they get up is pretty cool, but they each have one jump kick attack and nothing else? Those deathbot matches from the early aughts are way cooler.
They learned from Mortal Combat to spam their best move.
Turns out it's a mirror battle.
They didn't even hit each other
Total dogshit game
This is pretty fucking futuristic, even if they do miss each other a lot!
It doesn't look like they're autonomous to me, it looks like they have a pre-programmed set of movements (like the kick-variants we're seeing, and the "get up" motion), and being controlled by someone outside the ring. That also fits with the way they're missing: it's hard to get proper alignment when you're looking from the side, and the pattern for how they're missing looks a lot to me like how you often miss if you try to line up e.g. a remote controlled toy car on an opening to drive through when you're sitting off to the side.
Oh yeah, totally.
Still really futuristic!
Oh absolutely! It's cool as hell! I think it could be even cooler if they put a camera in the robots head so that the controller could get the right point of view, that would probably make it more easy to be accurate.
Stereoscopic vision with a VR headset would be an experience ... until the head gets knocked off, lol
That being said, a lot of the movements are fast and jerky, so it might just be a nausea maker
This will probably be awesome 10-20 years from now.
10-20 years from now, these thigs will be gunning down people in the streets
Time to start designing antibot drones then I guess.
Looks like the same when I let my kids play tekken the first time.
It's very clear none of y'all remember the seminal film Real Steel
I remember when it came out, but I only saw it last year! IT BLEW ME AWAY. I wasn't expecting a film of that quality!
I've seen it about a year or so after it came out. I remember it fondly, maybe I should rewatch it.
You should! :D
Should get Jaleel White to host it.
Flashback to my first attempts at playing the original arcade Virtua Fighter
When I was a kid we had a game called Rockem Sockem Robots (sp?) and knocking the head of was the definition of winning.
Are they autonomous or do they have pilots? I feel like a human touch would make the fights a lot cooler. Like in that one Love, Death and Robots episode.
It's fully autonomous, and it's just an ad for China's upcoming robot industry. There are a lot of events like that from dancing, to fighting to just doing chores. So it's not really a market on its own to justify more investments and refinement - it's just a meme.
I do wonder though whether something more permanent could be here but we already have Robot Wars which is better in every possible way - human controlled and not limited to human-like robots.
This looks so fun haha
OMF2097 had really good music...
It's like watching blindfolded "show" martial artists
Looks like they got a ways to go yet
Ok? Share and download don't work, no URL in the post text (Voyager), how did you do that?
I'm on Voyager too, but I get a link to the post when clicking share. https://lemmy.world/post/49587352
Voyager share button first downloads the video and then opens the share menu. This video takes a long time to download
Can I ask where in the world you are? Just curious to do some speed tests towards your country
Estonia. 150 Mbps connection and it usually reaches the cap pretty reliably. Download speeds are usually a bit over 17 MB/s
Surprisingly not as bad as I thought it would be, this is on a 250/100 connection
Unfortunately content on Lemmy is very hit or miss, I actually upgraded the connection from 50mbps upload because the first like 1-2 hours that the content is uploaded it gets absolutely hammered then it slowly drops off till after 12 hours it's just a slow trickle
And even within that first 1-2 hours, if you click play you might get a full speed upload but then suddenly 6 people might all click play at once and saturate the link
But given that I'm uploading terabytes and it's not costing my server admins any cash I think it's ok and I'd rather not sign up to cloudflare
If bunny cdn offers a basic free tier then maybe
Seems like they are given pre-programmed moves queued up and not, like, using any sensors and logic to fight dynamically. I would have expected them to be more autonomous. Or the very least, human controlled so you can wire up two actual martial artists to make the bots fight harder than they would against each other because it's okay if you kick a robot's head off.
Ziggo could whip their asses
they also have computers racing 250kmph cars and 130kmph drones
supposedly it's streamed on YouTube but I've never caught one live bc it happens once a year https://a2rl.io/
Who would watch robots fight like this. They can't even do anything. They have no idea how to fight whoever built them has no idea how yo fight. Its like watching blind people spam moves until something lands.
For most people seeing robots even move like this at all is considered crazy
Most people are also thinking if they have reached this point, where will they be at in 5 - 10 years
I would agree if the movement looked dynamic.
you don't think a flying roundhouse kick to the head looks dynamic?
No it doesnt. It looks like the same kick over and over. It fights like the guy who has trained 1 kick 10,000 times and has no sense of distance.
I dont think the robot can properly move or throw the same kick slightly different. It can just detected a target and fire off a generic kick. Mechanically its cool but we've plenty of examples of robots doing these acrobatics.
Idk maybe it would be better if it was actually trying to do real martial arts. If this thing dynamically circled and popped a well timed jab with some head movement I would be extremely impressed.