[ExI] Humanoid robot dexterity improves

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 27/04/2026 18:41, BillK wrote:
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> On Fri, 24 Apr 2026 at 14:19, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The hand dexterity video demonstrates impressive improvement, but it's still not good enough for sleight-of-hand card tricks. As for the wheeled robot stuff, it says it's not AI generated but it sure looks like it is to me. Can a real robot do that?
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>> John K Clark
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> Apparently, the many Unitree robot videos are real.
> I asked Perplexity AI to do a search and check out the Unitree robot,
> Perplexity confirmed the videos and noted that the Unitree robot has a
> skateboarding video as well. (From Feb 2026).
> There are many videos available from Unitree and other sources.
> Perplexity did have a caveat though. These are demo videos, after the
> robot has gone through considerable training, hanging off a safety
> cable. They are still best understood as a specialized mobility demo
> rather than proof of general, everyday skating ability.


It certainly looks AI-generated to me, or at least some element of CG in it. The backgrounds are suspiciously clean and regular, no people visible. It reminds me of that video a while ago, where a robot delivers a parcel outside an obviously fake residence, drops it to the ground and it bounces in a very unrealistic way.
Whatever it is, it's definitely 'cleaned up'.

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Ben