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We saw a lot of awesome robots at CES this year but can’t crown any of them “the best.” Here’s why. Read more on CNET: There Sure Are a Lot of Robots at CES: Here’s Why We’re Not Picking a Favorite Humanoid Robot Trends to Watch in 2025 We Spoke to a $175K Robot at…

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We saw a lot of awesome robots at CES this year but can’t crown any of them “the best.” Here’s why.

Read more on CNET:
There Sure Are a Lot of Robots at CES: Here’s Why We’re Not Picking a Favorite
Humanoid Robot Trends to Watch in 2025
We Spoke to a $175K Robot at CES 2025 That’s Almost Human

0:00 Intro
0:20 Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot
0:39 Robot Autonomy
1:17 Self-Driving Cars
1:33 Controlling the Unitree Family of Robots
1:54 Social Robots
2:07 Reabotix Humanoid Robots
2:34 First Impressions

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  1. @Aragorn7884

    January 9, 2025 at 2:47 pm

    1:58 ????????

  2. @e.v.k.3632

    January 9, 2025 at 2:51 pm

    Depends on what is safer
    If the AI is safer then I want it to drive

  3. @roni2971

    January 9, 2025 at 2:51 pm

    Asimo was here 20 years ago

    • @joelhubeny7554

      January 9, 2025 at 4:52 pm

      And R.O.B was on the Launch of the Nintendo system the First working Robot. So? Nintendo ROB could play games Honda Asimo could walk up stairs. These things are Cooking flipping and running the SHOW now. It’s called Progression.

  4. @KlausP-f7p

    January 9, 2025 at 2:56 pm

    Realbotix are awesome!!!

  5. @Player2blood

    January 9, 2025 at 2:57 pm

    Unitree tried.
    Unitree

  6. @notnetflix5691

    January 9, 2025 at 3:03 pm

    Social robots, good name however we’re still years away from them thought maybe roughly 6 or 7 years from now before they’re realistic enough

  7. @1jfmurray

    January 9, 2025 at 3:05 pm

    Just give me C3-PO already.

    • @smittyvanjagermanjenson182

      January 9, 2025 at 3:41 pm

      You already know Disney will hold off until the market is red hot. They already have some industry leading robotics

  8. @CNET

    January 9, 2025 at 3:14 pm

    Read more on CNET.com: There Sure Are a Lot of Robots at CES: Here’s Why We’re Not Picking a Favorite

  9. @iliadimitrov7131

    January 9, 2025 at 3:21 pm

    At this point those are droids

    • @smittyvanjagermanjenson182

      January 9, 2025 at 3:45 pm

      Yup. Samsung is releasing “Ballie” and it’s almost exactly like a protype BB8 lol

  10. @xxnotmuchxx

    January 9, 2025 at 3:28 pm

    i want robots to play soccer with each other

  11. @Internet_Hobo

    January 9, 2025 at 3:40 pm

    I would hold off on adapting A.I. to robotics considering how…unpolished…A.I. is and will likely remain for the forseeable future.

    • @smittyvanjagermanjenson182

      January 9, 2025 at 3:47 pm

      Refinement can be achieved rapidly with ai.

    • @Internet_Hobo

      January 9, 2025 at 4:34 pm

      @@smittyvanjagermanjenson182 Using A.I. to refine A.I. is like trying to put out an oil fire with gasoline.

    • @joelhubeny7554

      January 9, 2025 at 5:04 pm

      AI is Just Human metadata. These devices just like the Smart phone Have Lidar sensors shooting out Infrared particles to see the environment. We are Programming the Robots How to Move like Playing a Video game and Mapping the Area. It is Just Software and with Nvidia GPU running Parallel to a CPU it can run the Program stored in the GPU that data Called AI at the same time. It’s not special. If a Crazy Human gets control Just like with anything like a Gun then it will become a Problem.

  12. @mxrkdecastro

    January 9, 2025 at 3:54 pm

    single japanese men rejoice

  13. @afterglow5285

    January 9, 2025 at 3:58 pm

    I need her

  14. @Kaienhere

    January 9, 2025 at 4:28 pm

    Wasn’t there a robot that got discontinued last year and it basically became paperweight?

  15. @joelhubeny7554

    January 9, 2025 at 4:41 pm

    Well if they remove the steering wheel but I can control it with a video game controller that would be way better. Would just need to secure it down. Imagine in your electric car Ride turns into a Mario Kart to the store with grandMa! Double Dashing out Red Shells.

  16. @OldSkoolBiker62

    January 9, 2025 at 4:47 pm

    Need to move into the future mate, you still want cars with steering wheels and remote control robots.. I’m glad not everyone wants to remain in the past like you, we would still be riding horses and flying around in airships. Why are you even on a future tec channel.

  17. @LSU_Tig3rs

    January 9, 2025 at 5:06 pm

    Human and ‘bot are two words that don’t belong together.

  18. @GuyFernandez-h1j

    January 9, 2025 at 6:41 pm

    Considering how far ai has come, these robots still seem quite dated – but maybe that’s a good thing

  19. @LukasLwM

    January 9, 2025 at 6:44 pm

    Threats to the national security!! lol

  20. @AlGuien82

    January 9, 2025 at 7:39 pm

    Those are not the droids we were looking for…

    *waves hand*

  21. @thisisnotmyname9044

    January 9, 2025 at 8:16 pm

    Just give me Case and Tars from Interstellar

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