For most people seeing robots even move like this at all is considered crazy

Most people are also thinking if they have reached this point, where will they be at in 5 - 10 years

I remember when it came out, but I only saw it last year! IT BLEW ME AWAY. I wasn't expecting a film of that quality!

The obsession is actually in search of new tech markets to dominate. AI race, Ev Race, Solar Panel race, gig-economy race. There's so much money and "realpolitik" in each of these. Sometimes early investments pay off like EV industry and sometimes they absolutely do not - gig economy race for example.

This seems like new reality - chase to dominate big general markets and China is absolutely winning everything from EVs and solar panels to literally fishing out every fish out of existence within the next few decades if not less.

This is really bad.

I love battle bots

I’m pretty sure the odds of this are 100%. Except it’ll be military bots… and they’ll be purging the poor and middle class, because once you have robots to do all the other stuff the next step is to reduce the population.

If you and your group control all the raw resources and manufacturing is fully automated, and you have robots smart enough to do all the manual tasks, you don’t need profit, you get to wipe out most of the population and create your paradise.

Not enough people realize we are morlocks, and the Billionaires think they are the Eloi

But how quickly will hackers be able to gain total control of them? Cops will probably have the administrator password as "password123" or some shit. Or maybe instead of engaging in combat directly, they'll just be running humanoid cameras, lunging after you no matter how quickly you run, or whatever fence you jump over. Long gone will be the days when you could simply outrun the overweight, poorly trained cops. Now these things will be just inches behind you, the whole way blaring sirens and recording your every move. 😐

The spinning jump kick of the law.

Stop right there! Or I won't be able to jump kick you!

That’s true of a few BattleBots contenders.

They learned from Mortal Combat to spam their best move.

Turns out it's a mirror battle.

I feel like that should be disqualifying. Or at least, the robots should be compelled to use the swinging head as a mace.

It's fully autonomous, and it's just an ad for China's upcoming robot industry. There are a lot of events like that from dancing, to fighting to just doing chores. So it's not really a market on its own to justify more investments and refinement - it's just a meme.

I do wonder though whether something more permanent could be here but we already have Robot Wars which is better in every possible way - human controlled and not limited to human-like robots.

My guess is that they are remote controlled and the operators of the white robot saw that they were winning, so they hit the dance button in the hopes of scoring some points with the audience.

Instead of fighting each other they should do a laundry folding competition. That would be really impressive!

It doesn't look like they're autonomous to me, it looks like they have a pre-programmed set of movements (like the kick-variants we're seeing, and the "get up" motion), and being controlled by someone outside the ring. That also fits with the way they're missing: it's hard to get proper alignment when you're looking from the side, and the pattern for how they're missing looks a lot to me like how you often miss if you try to line up e.g. a remote controlled toy car on an opening to drive through when you're sitting off to the side.

10-20 years from now, these thigs will be gunning down people in the streets