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Title: China Just Held the First-Ever Humanoid Robot Fight Night

Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/...

"We've officially entered the age of watching robots clobber each other in
fighting rings," writes Vice.com. A kick-boxing competition was staged Sunday
in Hangzhou, China using four robots from Unitree Robotics, reports Futurism.
(The robots were named "AI Strategist", "Silk Artisan", "Armored Mulan", and
"Energy Guardian".) "However, the robots weren't acting autonomously just
yet, as they were being remotely controlled by human operator teams."
Although those ringside human controllers used quick voice commands,
according to the South China Morning Post: Unlike typical remote-controlled
toys, handling Unitree's G1 robots entails "a whole set of motion-control
algorithms powered by large [artificial intelligence] models", said Liu Tai,
deputy chief engineer at China Telecommunication Technology Labs, which is
under research institute China Academy of Information and Communications
Technology. More from Vice: The G1 robots are just over 4 feet tall [130 cm]
and weigh around 77 pounds [35 kg]. They wear gloves. They have headgear.
They throw jabs, uppercuts, and surprisingly sharp kicks... One match even
ended in a proper knockout when a robot stayed down for more than eight
seconds. The fights ran three rounds and were scored based on clean hits to
the head and torso, just like standard kickboxing... Thanks to long-time
Slashdot reader AmiMoJo for sharing the news.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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