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China’s humanoid robot turns into Kung-fu master after dancing debut
(interestingengineering.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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This does not look real. I can’t put my finger as to why. It looks like good CGI but the lighting off the robot does not feel perfect.
I was curious why someone downvoted you, so I took a look at the video.
That is absolutely 100% CGI and I’m not sure why anyone is doubting that. I’m on mobile and I can still see it.
Take my upvote.
The biggest tell is at 0:21.
You see the badge flying around as a physics object and then, when the animation stops the left side part of the necklace "resets" and slides up on the bots neck despite that being like a ball suddenly deciding to go from a rest to rolling up hill.
It looks like it went from being rendered as a physics object to slowing down enough that it returned to being a regular object attached to the model's rigging .
I don't see the movement with the badge you're describing, can you screenshot it for me? It looks normal to my untrained eye and I'd like to get better at spotting fakes
The badge, the soft landings, and the seams in the concrete blipping in and out were the biggest factors for me.
Edit for downvoter: Watch nothing but the concrete for the whole video. I think the badge moved too perfectly and the landings didn’t seem to reflect physics, but the jitter on the concrete rendering is beyond unrealistic.
Oh, yeah, that really does not look real. Like on its own this seems unlikely since there's been no talk about this until now, but wow that video just looks really, really fake.
Also it's apparently only ~4ft/130cm tall, which would make this less impressive even if all the promo media released about it is real, which seems... unlikely.
Let‘s give them the benefit of doubt. I mean this would only be the millionth time they get caught blatantly faking footage of exactly this technology and make wrong claims. Surely they have learned by now. /s
Can I have the source claiming they've faked footage? I would love to have that and didn't find anything on google, hoping for a captain disillusion situation!
If you watch other videos from trade shows they show incredibly limited movement and jerky balance.
Nowhere close to the same league as in the video.
/s stands for sarcasm. Of course it‘s fake. It always is.