Unitree Develops Production-Ready Mech Suit - Core77
Unitree Develops Production-Ready Mech Suit
By Rain Noe<br>- May 18
in<br>Tech | Mobility
China's Unitree produces both humanoid robots and dog-bots. Now they've scaled up the former, into something that a driver can climb inside (albeit quite awkwardly). They've just unveiled their GD-01, "the world's first production-ready manned mecha," the company says. It's both drive-able and autonomous (or at least remote-controllable).
The demo video is straight-up weird. First off, they're branding it as a "civilian vehicle." Imagine a city full of people commuting like this:
Secondly, the company writes "Please everyone be sure to use the robot in a Friendly and Safe manner." But they've recorded this for the demo:
Thirdly, you'd think they'd want to work out the ingress and egress before releasing the demo vid:
The following feature is quite innovative: Since the mech suit doesn't have to obey the laws of biology, it can bend over backwards, then walk backwards on all fours just as easily as walking forwards on two.
There's no official word yet on release date or price.
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Alan Nomoto
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And this is to do what?
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Rob Wilkey
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Unitree also includes backdoor malware on the root level on their robot dogs that relays encrypted data to China, so I can't say that I trust climbing inside something they built :)
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