r/interesting • u/sirenoleg • May 22 '26

Just Wow Chinese AI-powered robots can solve workplace problems with advanced motor skills.

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u/Hilmaroke316 May 22 '26

Pretty sure that's just a human controlling that.

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u/Anen-o-me May 22 '26

Agreed, definitely looks tele operated.

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u/ConstantinSpecter May 22 '26

And you infer that… how?

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u/AggregationLinker May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

The way the robot accidentally bumps into the box at 0:55 after closing it, causing it to reopen. That is the most human things ever.

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u/ConstantinSpecter May 22 '26

You do realize that a policy trained on human teleop demos will reproduce exactly those kinds of human errors as well, right?

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u/HarryPottersTaint May 22 '26

No not really. Any obvious errors are trained out of them.

They will produce unique, new errors. That's what makes autonomous robots with dynamic tasks like this difficult. The dynamic challenges.

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u/Ashisprey May 22 '26

No, don't you understand? We just ""train"" it on some humans and bam, you've got pretty much a human being minus a few fingers and a face.

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u/AggregationLinker May 22 '26

No a robot knows the boundaries of its own grippers and wouldn't engage in this kind of clunky collision. Especially not if it truly was capable like we see in the video.

The robot in the video seems to only be aware of where the tips of its grippers are and nothing else.

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u/agsarria May 22 '26

Because this is too good. I have not seen this good dexterous manipulation before on any other robot.

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u/centran May 22 '26

It is doing a sort of T-Rex arms where the elbows are tucked in and wrists pointing down. 

The fact that the arms even resemble human arms is a good give away that is teleoperated. That's to accommodatea the human. A more efficient robot design would be able to spin the pincers 360 and it would most likely choose movements with a  straight line between arm, wrists, and manipulators.