▲ 270 ▼ The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. (ikt.id.au) submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by eyekaytee@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 76 comments fedilink hide all child comments Welcome to the future!
[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 point 6 days ago (1 child) I would agree if the movement looked dynamic. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] eyekaytee@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child) you don't think a flying roundhouse kick to the head looks dynamic? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 point 6 days ago No it doesnt. It looks like the same kick over and over. It fights like the guy who has trained 1 kick 10,000 times and has no sense of distance. I dont think the robot can properly move or throw the same kick slightly different. It can just detected a target and fire off a generic kick. Mechanically its cool but we've plenty of examples of robots doing these acrobatics. Idk maybe it would be better if it was actually trying to do real martial arts. If this thing dynamically circled and popped a well timed jab with some head movement I would be extremely impressed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eyekaytee@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child) you don't think a flying roundhouse kick to the head looks dynamic? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 point 6 days ago No it doesnt. It looks like the same kick over and over. It fights like the guy who has trained 1 kick 10,000 times and has no sense of distance. I dont think the robot can properly move or throw the same kick slightly different. It can just detected a target and fire off a generic kick. Mechanically its cool but we've plenty of examples of robots doing these acrobatics. Idk maybe it would be better if it was actually trying to do real martial arts. If this thing dynamically circled and popped a well timed jab with some head movement I would be extremely impressed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 point 6 days ago No it doesnt. It looks like the same kick over and over. It fights like the guy who has trained 1 kick 10,000 times and has no sense of distance. I dont think the robot can properly move or throw the same kick slightly different. It can just detected a target and fire off a generic kick. Mechanically its cool but we've plenty of examples of robots doing these acrobatics. Idk maybe it would be better if it was actually trying to do real martial arts. If this thing dynamically circled and popped a well timed jab with some head movement I would be extremely impressed. permalink fedilink source parent