Robot 'Decapitated' in World's First-Ever Humanoid UFC Fight (newsweek.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/19/1746241/robot-decapitated-in-worlds-first-ever-humanoid-ufc-fight
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The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend competition began Thursday in Shenzhen, China, according to the article, with local robotics company EngineAI providing $40,000 of their "T800" robots (yes, named after The Terminator ) to 32 participating teams from around the world:
> A [2]video shared of the combat on YouTube by local news outlet Shenzhen Story , showed that even after one of the robots had its head practically knocked off its shoulders, it continued to fight, throwing punches at its opponent and kicking into the air... [White humanoid robot "White Eagle"] [3]landed a high kick to the head of its black opponent, "Matador," which made the robot's head rock precariously in its socket before rolling completely out of place. The two continued to spar as Matador's head was swinging from its socket until eventually the robot fell, crushing its head underneath its body.
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> Matador tried to scramble back to its feet, but its head flew off and the robot then collapsed back down. The White Eagle did a celebratory dance for the crowd as the fight concluded, and did a move that mimicked that of someone flexing their biceps. The White Eagle waited in the ring, fists still up, as Matador was carried away, occasionally doing a few more dance moves...
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> Per [4]a report by Global Times , the winning team will be awarded a gold championship belt worth $1.44 million (10 million yuan) by the event organizer.
It's a strange fight. The robots sometimes seem unaware of where their opponent is, facing the wrong direction or throwing kicks and punches in the air. In the first round White Eagle just knocks over Matador, who then isn't able to stand back up. (And White Eagle again appears to do a victorious dance.)
[5]EngineAI's site says they aim to "promote the development of robot combat events toward greater professionalism, scale, and industrialization," while fostering innovation and global collaboration.
Thanks to Slashdot reader [6]pbahra for sharing the news.
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/robot-decapitated-in-worlds-first-ever-humanoid-ufc-fight-12209126
[2] https://youtu.be/vpyO73jyx1g?t=6250s
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpyO73jyx1g&t=6232s
[4] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202602/1355090.shtml
[5] https://en.engineai.com.cn/robot-fighting-competition.html
[6] https://slashdot.org/~pbahra
A right to the jaw!... (Score:4, Funny)
MY BLOCK IS KNOCKED OFF!!!
URKL (Score:3)
other robot looks around and remarks: DID I DO THAT???
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I get [1]that half-century-old reference [youtube.com]...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAILud-X58U
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Damn, beat me to it!
(Real) Steel (Score:2)
I think I read that story, and saw the movie.
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots (Score:3, Insightful)
The more things change, the more they stay the same. [1]Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_'Em_Sock_'Em_Robots
"Unaware" just means latency. (Score:2)
The "unaware" problem is largely because the target is actively trying to anticipate and dodge, and it takes a fraction of a second to track and recalculate... by which time the target has already moved again. First they had to figure out how to target and attack. They did this. Then they had to figure out how to dodge and anticipate incoming attacks. They did this. Human combatants would (with practice) learn to compensate for this as well, which is when it really helps to anticipate what evasive maneuvers
flesh wound (Score:4, Funny)
tis but a scratch
So Matador lost (Score:2)
... and it made it look almost real. So did it get a gift card to Bed, Bath, and Beyond?
Cheering on our keepers (Score:2)
I find it darkly amusing that any "Real Steel" robot fight leagues that come out of this sort of thing may be used to both fund and develop the fighting prowess of robots that may later be used jn large numbers by the 0.01% to keep the rest of us under control in a decade or two.
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Nah, some drones with guns can do that better and far more efficient
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Robots are better at arresting.
Stupid people do stupid things (Score:2)
It seems to be in our nature
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I cannot understand why anyone would think that fights are entertainment - be they humans or robots.
Decapitated is good (Score:3)
At least then nobody can bite your ear.
Dexterity (Score:2)
Ok, we've proven robots are good at dancing and punching. Neither of those have any commercial value. How about showing they can do commercially useful tasks that require manual dexterity. Like, I dunno, assemble an iPhone .. or place a workpiece into a CNC machine or something. There's a word for the paradox that robots can't do ultra simple tasks that a kid can do .. for example one-handedly select a key from a keychain while grasping them. Take out only a rubber band from within a bag of trinkets.
Disturbing (Score:4)
That is disturbing to watch, especially when they stand back up.
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It was definitely quite odd. I'm very impressed by the balance the robots displayed; on the other hand, the aiming of their attacks (which were predominantly kicks) also seemed almost unrelated to where the other robot actually was (TFS' "sometimes" is an understatement).
Each robot seemed to have a very limited set of moves - just one or two specific attack moves, but several celebration moves.
I was a bit concerned that a human might be the target for a random roundhouse kick to the head towards the end of
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What's really interesting is not the fight itself, but the fact that Chinese robot companies have commoditized humanoid robots that are capable of acrobatics already.
You can buy an off-the-shelf humanoid robot that has everything needed to balance, move with both feet off the ground at the same time*, get up from being knocked over etc. All the sensors, joints, and software needed to make it happen are there, you just need to teach it some fighting/dancing/labour moves.
* This demonstrates a high level of ad