A robot dancing to Michael Jackson wiped out badly — illustrating the smoke and mirrors of many humanoid robot demos.
It shows a humanoid robot strides out in front of a crowd, busting moves to Michael Jackson’s 1983 smash hit “Billie Jean. ” It starts out impressive enough, with the bot pulling off some deft footwork — but trouble starts when it boogies straight into a large step on the stage, sending it stumbling with jerky, inhuman movements.
It almost seems as though the bot is going to recover as it regains its footing and segues into a passable moonwalk, one of Jackson’s most iconic moves. But then it strides back into that dastardly step, this time wiping out so badly that it crumbles into a lifeless heap as a human technician emerges to drag its inert body off stage. This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes.
The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off.
Purely amazing.was at an event at a “robot store” called Future Era in Shenzhen, China — inspired predictable online waves of jokes, derision, and pathos. But it’s also a perfect illustration of the core problem with almost all humanoid robotics demos you see online. Though the clips give thea few months back that showed robots tearing up a stage as backup dancers? — the reality is that what we’re typically seeing is a carefully pre-programmed routine.
In other words, everything goes great in these types of demos until the moment something unexpected happens, like the robot in today’s viral video tripping on the step. That’s all well and good if your goal is to wow an audience, but it shows how far we have to go before robots can do anything practical.
Vacuuming or washing dishes seem like simple tasks, but the infinite variables in a messy kitchen or living room all represent unexpected hazards ready to trip up an unprepared robot servant.one of its own humanoid robots sorting packages on a conveyer belt. It’s a constrained domain — everything is a package, the bot doesn’t need any fancy footwork, et cetera — but it’s still surprisingly clunky, only barely edging out a human intern who competed against it So consume viral humanoid robot content with skepticism. Robots doing acrobatic tricks and slick dance moves are headline-grabbing, but the tech won’t really be world-changing until they can easily do household chores in chaotic environments without messing them up.
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