This is way more of what I thought robotics companies should be working on over their dumb 4 legged dog like robots.
Wheels were invented for a reason and we are awfully good at moving things around on them at speed. Combining multiple attributes into a single form will ultimately prove to be the winning formula.
Just like in a year or two you will start to see more appendages than just two arms on humanoids.
is using a prototype firmware or hardware platform faking it when you're showing exclusive prototype capabilities and trying to pass them off as reproducible by the production unit?
Just like in a year or two you will start to see more appendages than just two arms on humanoids.
Not doing acrobatics like the marketing video of course, just doing mundane things like going from point A to point B.
unitree has done this consistently.
The other half is yes, of course, any company will fake it till they make it.
But Unitree is definitely making robots.