9 Cool New Gadgets You Can Only Find In China

Then Unitree showcased the GD01. It is a massive humanoid robot with arms, legs, and a cockpit for a human pilot to sit in. The CEO of the company himself demonstrated piloting this futuristic mecha, walking around a workshop upright and knocking over a wall, suffering no personal or mechanical damage. The GD01 can even transform into a quadruped mode to handle movement across more uneven terrain. And the wildest part is that this is not some one-off prototype, but an actual robot you can buy... provided you can shell out $650,000. There is a robotics arms race going on in the world right now. Be it the US, China, or Japan, companies in leading nations are trying to perfect humanoid robots. And amazing developments are emerging on an almost daily basis. Companies have showcased dancing robots, running robots, even robots doing martial arts. But why, then, do we not see these robots actually playing a role in the real world? Are these showcases even real? Kind of. You see, while it is true that machine learning advances have made more dextrous humanoid robots possible, the fact remains that this only works well in controlled settings. In the sterile workshop devoid of complications, these robots can indeed achieve incredible feats. Unleashed into a normal room, these same robots are reduced to confusion, unable to deal with the randomly placed objects and the uncertain stimuli.