One ton is so heavy for the horse that even Sharma couldn't carry it. But it's so slow, I hope they will solve this problem.
Robotics and humanoid robotics & civilian drones discussion
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Actually plenty of advantages over an actual horse.
1) it does pee or poop.
2) it doesn’t need training.
3) it doesn’t get pissed and throw its owner.
4) it doesn’t need hoof maintenance.
5) if one of the legs break you just replace it instead of having to put it down.
In short, it is superior to a horse in almost every way other than competently carry a rider…
China’s very nascent embodied robotics industry is like a high-speed train making itself dangerously dependent on foundational building blocks such as Nvidia’s software and chips. Where is Beijing when it needs to step in and regulate this dependency? Why do Chinese entrepreneurs remain so stubbornly dependent on hostile states for critical hardware and software, even after everything we’ve seen since 2018? Disgraceful.
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I mean, it's 2026 already, how long TSMC can be considered "hostile state" to PRC, vs how long they can be considered non-hostile to the US might not be as clear cut as people might think, especially considering how US is doing in the Iran War,
Be relaxed, allow the robot's own sports ability, which only requires a basic ARM Cortex-A72, Nvidia chips are only mentioned to solve more complex problems. Meanwhile, DeepSeek's story tells us that using domestic chips switchover is not as complex as we imagine.
China’s very nascent embodied robotics industry is like a high-speed train making itself dangerously dependent on foundational building blocks such as Nvidia’s software and chips. Where is Beijing when it needs to step in and regulate this dependency? Why do Chinese entrepreneurs remain so stubbornly dependent on hostile states for critical hardware and software, even after everything we’ve seen since 2018? Disgraceful.
Maybe useful as a machine of burden in rough terrain, like in the mountainous areas of the Chinese Indian border.
Once DJT bans NVIDIA sales to China the domestic solution will be ready in a year or so.
Wang Tingting observes a robot writing in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 21, 2026. Inside the training ground of a bionic robot innovation center, robot engineer Wang Tingting, wearing motion-capture equipment, guided bionic robots through tasks such as grasping, walking and laying. The robots undergo stages including action demonstration, data collection, precise calibration, and repeated error correction.
What appears to be a simple sorting action requires Wang Tingting to repeat it hundreds of times to ensure the robots operate accurately, stably, and safely in real environments. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)
Wang Tingting adjust robots with her colleagues in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 21, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)
Wang Tingting adjusts a robot in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 21, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)
Wang Tingting puts on motion capture equipment in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 21, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)
Wang Tingting operates a robot in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 21, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)
Wang Tingting trains a robot to pick up components in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 21, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)
I don't think the concern is whether China would have access to NVIDIA chips. I think the bigger question is that these NVIDIA chips would represent a potential national security concern should these robots ever be used in anything (or anywhere) remotely sensitive.
Imagine if NVIDIA embeds a backdoor that allows the NSA to at best, use your robot to gather information about it's surroundings or about some part of it's code, or at worst to cause it to detonate or cause as much damage to anything around it, or to kill as many people around it.
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Or a wheel barrow