Welcome to the future!
Looks like the same when I let my kids play tekken the first time.
Total dogshit game
Looks real the same way WWE looks real. I mean, you gotta love the skill/tech used to achieve these feats, but real robots fighting with no restraint wouldn’t need to take a few seconds to dick around after every kick.
It’s very clear none of y’all remember the seminal film Real Steel
I remember when it came out, but I only saw it last year! IT BLEW ME AWAY. I wasn’t expecting a film of that quality!
Flashback to my first attempts at playing the original arcade Virtua Fighter
When I was a kid we had a game called Rockem Sockem Robots (sp?) and knocking the head of was the definition of winning.
Seems like they are given pre-programmed moves queued up and not, like, using any sensors and logic to fight dynamically. I would have expected them to be more autonomous. Or the very least, human controlled so you can wire up two actual martial artists to make the bots fight harder than they would against each other because it’s okay if you kick a robot’s head off.
Looks like they got a ways to go yet
This looks sad. The obsession with humanoid robots is making less and less sense by the decade.
Support your local robot battle scene.
The obsession is actually in search of new tech markets to dominate. AI race, Ev Race, Solar Panel race, gig-economy race. There’s so much money and “realpolitik” in each of these. Sometimes early investments pay off like EV industry and sometimes they absolutely do not - gig economy race for example.
This seems like new reality - chase to dominate big general markets and China is absolutely winning everything from EVs and solar panels to literally fishing out every fish out of existence within the next few decades if not less.
This is really bad.
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Are they autonomous or do they have pilots? I feel like a human touch would make the fights a lot cooler. Like in that one Love, Death and Robots episode.
It’s fully autonomous, and it’s just an ad for China’s upcoming robot industry. There are a lot of events like that from dancing, to fighting to just doing chores. So it’s not really a market on its own to justify more investments and refinement - it’s just a meme.
I do wonder though whether something more permanent could be here but we already have Robot Wars which is better in every possible way - human controlled and not limited to human-like robots.
They way they get up is pretty cool, but they each have one jump kick attack and nothing else? Those deathbot matches from the early aughts are way cooler.
They learned from Mortal Combat to spam their best move.
Turns out it’s a mirror battle.
I’d still put my money on a battle bot any day of the week.
They didn’t even hit each other
This looks so fun haha
