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China's Robot Juggernaut Unitree Debuts a $650,000 Personal Gundam
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China's Robot Juggernaut Unitree Debuts a $650,000 Personal Gundam

Gizmodo·Tom Hawking·20 days ago
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While the West continues its love affair with the money to be made from getting generative AI to do things for which it is manifestly unsuited, on the other side of the Pacific, it’s all robot everything. Not to be put in the shade by Honor and their marathon robot, Chinese robot company Unitree—you may remember them from such other automatons as the Lunar New Year kung fu dervishes and, um, the Jackass robot —have upped the ante with their latest creation, which is a freaking giant half-ton transforming mech suit. The GD01 stands a good ten feet tall, can switch between bipedal and quadrupedal forms, and can be yours for a piddling $650,000. (Rumors that “GD” is an abbreviation of “Gundam” remain unconfirmed.) And look, we have questions about this. For a start, you’d think that $650,000 would get you a more comfortable… cockpit? Driver’s seat? What do you even call the bit where you sit in a mech? Anyway, whatever it’s called, the GD-01’s version looks cramped and ergonomically challenging.…

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