The Rivals.
The protagonists of the combat are the G1 robots and possibly the H1 model, both from Unitree's line of advanced humanoids, with more than 1 meter in height balance sensors and total body control the G1 can run, fight and even fall and get up on its own, the H1 with 1.80 meters represents the future APSI of Unitree's fluid motion engineering which, although still in development, promises superior computing power and smoother movements.
These robots are not only programmed to walk, they were trained with artificial intelligence based on real data from human athletes martial arts and biomechanics using the La Fun One motion capture library, the fight will be fully controlled in real time with sensory feedback systems, dynamic balance and computer vision.
In the promotional video released by Unitree, the robots demonstrate blows, dodges, even fall and get up with robotic naturalness, of course for now the robots are still visibly less precise than humans, but their ability to adapt and react is already impressive, the most curious thing is, the fight is not just a spectacle, it serves as a test of motor control already applied to the entire body.
Would you watch a world title tournament?
Unitree is training the robots to recognize movement patterns, react to extreme stimuli and make tactical decisions during combat, like watching a cybor athlete learning to fight with each round, serving to feed the algorithms that will make the next robot even more lethal or more refined.
Although the focus is on spectacle, the G1 and H1 robots were designed with the potential for use in educational industrial environments and even in medical and military simulations and this fight serves to test their physical and cognitive limits publicly under pressure, something essential to validate them in critical tasks in the real world, not to mention that this opens the way to a new form of robotic training, with sports combats between machines becoming reality and not just science fiction.
We are entering an era where robots can already dance, run and now fight, but will these fights be just a spectacle or the first steps of a new type of artificial athlete, what do you think? Robots in the ring are a fun evolution or the harbinger of something much bigger and more dangerous, would you see a world tournament of robot boxers for the robotic title or if that gives you Terminator-style chills.
