China’s humanoid robot turns into Kung-fu master after dancing debut
China’s humanoid robot turns into Kung-fu master after dancing debut
I was curious why someone downvoted you, so I took a look at the video.
That is absolutely 100% CGI and I’m not sure why anyone is doubting that. I’m on mobile and I can still see it.
Take my upvote.
The biggest tell is at 0:21.
You see the badge flying around as a physics object and then, when the animation stops the left side part of the necklace “resets” and slides up on the bots neck despite that being like a ball suddenly deciding to go from a rest to rolling up hill.
It looks like it went from being rendered as a physics object to slowing down enough that it returned to being a regular object attached to the model’s rigging .
If you watch other videos from trade shows they show incredibly limited movement and jerky balance.
Nowhere close to the same league as in the video.
The speed changes so many times in the video that you immediately get the impression of it being unreal.
I have seen several other humanoid robots, this one looks much too “tidy” to be true: no tubes, cables etc. and all the joints look too good to be true.
One very impossible detail in the way it moves: it plants it’s feet on the ground thoroughly and with ease. No current robot does it like that, they rather “slap” the ground with their feet, or have no feet at all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAG_FBZJVJ8
Make it better next time, you CGI folks :-) by making it less perfect.

this one looks much too “tidy” to be true: no tubes, cables etc.
You mean like this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD9EaS3VRbc
Boston Dynamics used hydraulics, for their older generation bots, but AFAIK the new ones don’t, so there is no tubing or wiring visible on new models.
“Is that Kung Fu?”
“No, he’s only had 2 pints.”
Oh shit, they can fly now?!