Humans simply aren't able to stop ourselves. China's scientists have now produced the quickest humanoid robot ever made.
Named Evolution V3.0 by its creators at Unitree, the 5-foot-11, less than 110 pound H1 humanoid robot is capable of reaching speeds of 11 miles per hour!
whereas the maximum speed of Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot 'Atlas' is about 5.5 miles per hour. Although track sensation Usain Bolt holds the human speed record at 27.78 miles per hour
The really scary part of this isn’t so much the speed of the Unitree H1 humanoid robot as it is the fact that it can still maintain its balance when someone tries to knock it over.
H1 navigates using 3D LIDAR technology to constantly map its surroundings in 360 degrees while using a front-facing visual depth camera to judge distances. The joints that make up the hip or pelvis area—to which its legs are fixed — provide a maximum torque of 360nm which gives the system the means to swing its legs back and forth faster. That’s compared to a train, which has around 40,000Nm.
Another robot, Agility Robotics’ Cassie, had already previously run a 100 meter sprint in 24.73 seconds at 9 miles per hour – a world record for a bipedal robot, yet Cassie isn’t exactly what one would call a “humanoid” robot as it has no upper body.
In a video released this month, Unitree shows Evolution V3.0 reaching a top speed of 7.4 miles per hour. The video also shows the H1 humanoid robot dancing, jumping, picking up objects, and going up and down a set of stairs.
How do you feel about these new robotic advancements? We are personally terrified of the terminator getting it's revenge!