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@YujaSnap
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 pm
No one asked for this. We’re not solving the worlds problems by adding more junk or a humanoid robot to the mix.
@thecavemandynamic2685
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 pm
Incredible! 🙌
@maxben565
November 30, 2025 at 5:14 pm
Soon to be chasing you down the street! 🙂🦾🤖🦿
@ometofu
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 pm
If it was real. How come there is no xpeng female robot walking again?
@EtheralEiz
November 30, 2025 at 5:23 pm
i surrender to the robot mommy overlords
@xelaander8429
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 pm
A humanoid robot is actually not comforting, I’d prefer an actual robot with articulate parts that allow it work. The human form is great for humans, a robot form, multiple appendages, tracks or articulating parts for movement are better and multi dynamic than a human form
@xelaander8429
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 pm
Lmao, sure, humans will trust subscription based robots that spy on you on behalf of their manufacturer, sureeeeeee
@RandytheWitch
November 30, 2025 at 5:40 pm
Humanoid robots aren’t theoretically that impractical in a world entirely designed around the human body.
@Forcemaster2000
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 pm
Maybe that was a handicapped person with one prostethic leg?!
@elson_correia
November 30, 2025 at 6:19 pm
Makes no sense to me why we would design robots with human anatomy limitations. We could give them 4 legs and 4 arms and it would be much easier tech issue to solve.
@michaelwoodby5261
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 pm
You’re right if the real goal is a worker. Some kind of a spider or centaur with arms for days and enough legs to not worry about falling over would be able to do nearly everything a human can much better than a human can.
But they’re going mask-off with this specific robot: the point of making a believable synthetic person is so people can enjoy them outside of work hours. It’s got fabric outside and a blank face for now, but nobody should be surprised when the model after next has got attachment points for synthetic skin coverings.
@Kaodusanya
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 pm
Think about the fact tesla sued this company for stealing their tech. Chinese companies are so far ahead its scary
@michaelwoodby5261
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 pm
As long as someone is doing it I’m happy.
@tjn0110
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 pm
Showing some leg proves it’s not an amputee how? It would be irrefutable to expose vital areas, ie. face or chest, but no, they show some leg. 🤷
@colecovw.2171
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 pm
iRobot or order 66
@Smashed_Potatos
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 pm
The more human a robot appears the less comfortable people are with it.
@LIGHTANDSHADOWREALMS
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 pm
Show it doing something useful.
@kamalkylaureano
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 pm
The one walking is a human with a prosthetic, if they wanted to remove all doubt and be the real deal they would have shown parts from inside the head, torso or other than a little leg…very laughable,,,,shame on you CNET ….and it just happens to be a Chinese company a country desperate to be number one in AI and tech.
@Art-kz6zf
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 pm
Looks amazing. I totally get why to make robots look like human, there’s way less feeling of distrust for some reason. So easy to trick us 😂
@freakinchrist
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 pm
I did not think it was human. Stop it.
@MarkSveda-j8t
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 pm
It will help the elderly and people that are lonely.
@kus4kus4
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 pm
It got a lot of potential, but right now it walk so slow, the only thing it could do I think is catwalk in modelling. Supermodel would be no more.
@motor4150
November 30, 2025 at 8:18 pm
Pronounced: I-Ron
@wickedkool705
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 pm
Final a true non binary
@headfirst6227
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 pm
There’s only one thing I want this for. Gym coach.
@ropro9817
November 30, 2025 at 8:27 pm
When will it get a fully articulate mouth? Asking for a friend.
@Ai-and-business
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 pm
barf
@TheAccursedEntity
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 pm
lol why not the abdomen? the leg could be an amputee. The one naked doesn’t move the same.
@isrark3
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 pm
The best humanoid robots that exist are called humans. Everything else is an imitation
@CEOCthulhu
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 pm
Tesla? XPeng? Where you at Japan? Was Ghost in the Shell for nothing?
@JUICYY888
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 pm
In the next few years, we will have chobits.
@David_Fernandez
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 pm
Why don’t you show de damned robot?? All this video and one can barely watch some seconds of the same clip (which could be an amputated woman with a prosthesis, btw)
@tracejohnson7777
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 pm
A human is remotely controlling it
@scstudios8
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 pm
Making a robot walk is not revolutionary any more. What will it do besides walk….
@m_nikitin
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Any reason a robot should have breasts? And hips? And a human-like head? Any reason at all?
@cogoid
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 pm
A robot, generally? – No.
But *this* robot — yes, due to its intended applications. Xpeng is quite open about it. They have already tried using these robots at a factory, and they break down far too quickly. It makes no sense to use them there. They also know that the AI for controlling the robots is not good enough for using this robot in very variable, complex environments such as people’s homes. So this application is out as well. At this point Xpeng is aiming only at selling a bunch of these robots strictly as novelty items, for use in shows, advertisement, etc.
So this robot has to dazzle the audience. That’s what they are aiming for in the next few years as a business plan. Once AI catches up and is able to control any robot intelligently to do useful things, then this AI can first be applied on a grand scale to all the industrial robots and CNC machines that are already deployed at the factories throughout the world — and that will be revolutionary even without human shaped robots.
@mnmsauce
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 pm
I don’t agree either, it’s really really dumb for something to have to look ‘human’ for it to be accepted. It’s not sentient, it’s just a hunk a metal. But then again, people place enormous emotional weight on ‘stuff’ all the time, but it’s still not rational.
@Jin-Ro
December 1, 2025 at 4:46 pm
The problem with humanoid robots is that liberals are so unimaginably dumb that they’ll campaign for human rights for them. And when the first humanoids attack humans, they declare that we can’t stereotype humanoids, they have rights. Liberals ruin absolutely everything.
@stickynorth
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 pm
The future we’ve all been promised in the 1960’s science fiction we’ve all collectively grown up on isn’t complete without domestic robots, flying cars and monorails… We’ve already got the flatscreens, internet, limitless knowledge and entertainment but without Rosie? I feels empty…
@carlosnumbertwo
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 pm
Bring it! I want a butler!
@Jeff-oc7mi
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 pm
I really like the walk ❤ it’s pretty stylish.
@ireneuszdzieduch1305
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 pm
This is fake and people are extremely dumb for falling in this. The robot on stage moves completely different than the one without the fabric on. I don’t understand this whole thing about cutting the fabric on the leg. Why didn’t they have a robot next to it that wasn’t wearing any fabric at all? Why does every robot without a suit walk with bent legs, while the one in the suit straightens its legs like a human?
@duncanmacl3od
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 pm
Exactly. CNET better say this is sponsored by XPeng and the CCP.
@duncanmacl3od
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 pm
CNET now stands for ChineseNET? this video still does not prove it was an actual robot in that presentation, explain why it walks completely different at 1:05 for example, or why they were so very careful cutting at its knee region or unzipping the back as if they were concerned something would get exposed?🤔
@Nor-tc8vz
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 pm
I swear that statement of “making humans” sounds more fitting of a genetics firm than a robotics firm.
@DanBurgaud
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 pm
1:40 because those breasts are batteries, and the socket where the genital is located is the charger port…
@phillippereira6468
December 1, 2025 at 6:27 pm
Wow. Then everyone is stupid if they thought that was human
@dharmaosman184
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 pm
Aah…..the bone maker
@yongchenseng4739
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 pm
Humans try to play god
@BTHHansen
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 pm
How do you know that the “robot” was not just a one-legged person in a robot costume?
@Verfied_Account
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 pm
People will be watching this video in history of robots in 2100
@Aggie4life77
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 pm
This is one of those spaces where I think we will be mind blown in about 10-15 years!
@jose4167-i9v
December 1, 2025 at 7:47 pm
why only cut up 1 leg and not whole thing as proof?
@marklogan3813
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 pm
THE TECHNOLOGY is THERE!!!