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DEMETRIOUS JOHNSON TRAINED A $200,000 ROBOT FOR 8 MONTHS. IT JUST SCORED ITS FIRST KNOCKOUT IN A ONE CHAMPIONSHIP CAGE. THE MAN IT DROPPED HAD 14 PRO FIGHTS. THE ROBOT HAD 0. ONE Championship cage. Blue lights. 2,000 people. Silver humanoid, blue visor, MMA gloves. A fighter in camo shorts circles it. Throws a leg kick. The robot catches the leg. Then the knee comes up. The fighter folds. Face down on the canvas. Mighty Mouse is the greatest flyweight who ever lived. 12 title defenses. He spent 8 months teaching a machine his footwork. His timing. His knee. It learned in 8 months what took him 20 years. Then it used it. DJ retired undefeated in ONE. His student just started.

HodlMir @HodlMiro

6 days ago

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CHINA FILLED A STADIUM TO WATCH A ROBOT THE SIZE OF A 6-YEAR-OLD WALK BETWEEN 5 YELLOW POLES. IT TOOK 40 SECONDS. THE CROWD HELD ITS BREATH FOR ALL 40. ICBC AND CHINA LIFE PAID FOR THE SIGNS ON THE WALL. BANKS DON’T SPONSOR A JOKE. Blue track. Yellow platforms. A TV crew with a broadcast camera on a tripod. A small white humanoid steps onto the ramp. Pole. Pole. Pole. 2 handlers walk behind it. Hands out. Not touching. Behind the barrier: 200 people on phones. A silver humanoid waits its turn on the next lane. This is the World Humanoid Robot Games. Tickets. Lanes. Heats. 20 years ago the DARPA Challenge was 6 robots falling over in a parking lot. Now it’s a sport with a press pit. The robot finished the course. The banks were already there.

PoseLoss @poseloss

6 days ago

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CHINA’S ANSWER TO “WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU WHEN YOU’RE OLD” IS A $16,000 ROBOT MAKING A BED IN A 1-ROOM APARTMENT. IT SMOOTHED THE DUVET TWICE. NO ONE ASKED IT TO. A small bedroom. White wardrobe. A wire cart full of medicine bottles. Silver humanoid, blue ring on the face. It leans over the mattress. Both hands on the duvet. Pulls. Flattens. Pulls again. Look at the cart. Pills, lotion, tissues. Someone sick lives here. China has 300 million people over 60 and 1 child per family. The math doesn’t work. So they built the thing that doesn’t need to be born. It will never call. It will never visit. It will be there at 6 AM to fix the blanket. That’s the deal now.

PoseLoss @poseloss

6 days ago

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CHINA LET 3 ROBOTS DANCE ON A SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF 2 KIDS. THE KIDS DIDN’T RUN. THEY ASKED FOR MORE. $16,000 EACH. NOBODY HOLDING A CONTROLLER IN FRAME. A shopping street. Red banners. A fruit shop behind. Silver bodies. Blue visors. Black gloves. One drops low, arm out. Two more sway behind it. A boy in a black shirt grins. His friend in white holds a toy. Their mom films from 3 meters back. She doesn’t step in. That’s the whole clip. 10 years ago a parent would’ve grabbed the kid. Today she grabs her phone. These robots are 1.3 meters tall. Same as the boys. They’re not watching a machine. They’re watching something their size move like them.

PonBroke @BrokePonyal

6 days ago

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CHINA PUT A $16,000 ROBOT ON A FLIGHT OF STAIRS COVERED IN RUBBER MATS. IT MADE IT 2 STEPS. 12 TOURISTS FILMED THE WHOLE THING. A WOMAN IN A RED DRESS LAUGHED SO HARD SHE HAD TO HOLD HER KID. A park. Grey stone steps. Black rubber pads laid out like a track. A small silver humanoid, panda hat on its head. It steps. Wobbles. The mats slide. Face first. Legs in the air. A grandmother in a qipao. A kid in a white shirt. A woman in a blue top, phone up. Everyone laughing. Nobody helping. Here’s the honest part. 5 years ago this clip was a lab demo gone wrong. Now it’s a Tuesday in a public park with no engineer in sight. The fall isn’t the news. The fact that nobody was surprised to see a robot on the stairs is.

PoseLoss @poseloss

6 days ago

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@BrokeRudd Robots are not taking our jobs

BOSTON DYNAMICS PUT A $500,000 ROBOT ON THE PITCH AT THE 2026 WORLD CUP IN NEW JERSEY. BRAZIL FANS CHEERED LIKE IT WAS NEYMAR. IT JUGGLED THE BALL. THEN IT WAVED. NOBODY ON THE FIELD GETS PAID LESS. MetLife Stadium. FIFA WORLD CUP on the tunnel. Yellow jerseys everywhere. Grey and black Atlas. Blue ring for a face. Hyundai on the chest. It walks out of the tunnel. Fans lean over the rail with phones. It picks up the ball. Kicks. Catches. Waves to the stands. A Corinthians banner behind it. Here’s the thing. World Cup tickets run $1,500. Messi makes $20 million a year. The robot got the biggest pop of the pregame for free. Football is 11 men and a crowd. The crowd just showed who they’d pay to see. And it doesn’t have a transfer fee.

PoseLoss @poseloss

6 days ago

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SPAIN BUILT A $150,000 WOMAN AND HER OWNER PUT HER ON A SUN LOUNGER BY THE POOL. SHE CAN'T TAN. SHE'S STILL WEARING SUNGLASSES. THE JOINTS ARE VISIBLE. THE LIPS ARE PERFECT. HE FILMED HER LIKE A GIRLFRIEND. Poolside. White towel. A glass of water on the teak table. Black hair. Black shades. White top. Grey shorts. Ball joints at the shoulders, elbows, knees - like a doll scaled to 1.70 m. The camera walks around her slowly. She doesn't move. Doesn't need to. That's the product. Not cleaning. Not cooking. A body that sits where you put it and looks like it chose to. Companion tech is heading past $10 billion. This is what $150,000 of it looks like on a Tuesday. Nobody's working in this frame. That was the whole purchase.

PonBroke @BrokePonyal

6 days ago

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@BrokePonyal what a baddie

ROMANIA SENT A $4,000 POLICE DOG AGAINST A $16,000 ROBOT. THE DOG WON IN 4 SECONDS. THE ROBOT'S ONLY DEFENSE WAS NOT FALLING. IT FAILED THAT TOO. A park. Green turf. A woman filming from the grass. Silver humanoid, black helmet, sneakers. A Malinois in a POLICIA vest comes in low. Teeth on the leg. Full body weight. The robot tilts. Arms out. Back arched. The dog doesn't let go. Here's what the police learned today. A robot has no fear response. No pain. Nothing to make it stop. But it also has no balance against 30 kg of muscle hanging off one knee. The dog was trained for 2 years to bite men. It took 1 afternoon to learn robots fall easier.

A $5,000 ROBOT DID A BACKFLIP AT A SAN FRANCISCO EXPO, LANDED ON ITS HEAD, AND THE ENGINEER PICKED IT UP LIKE A TODDLER. 20 PHONES WERE FILMING. HE SMILED THE WHOLE TIME. RoboParty booth. 24 degrees of freedom. 1.30 meters tall. White body, blue trim. It flips. Comes down wrong. Legs up. Arms out. A pile. A man in jeans and a lanyard walks over. Controller in one hand. He's grinning. Behind him, 2 more hang from a frame on hooks like coats. Nobody panics. Falling is in the budget. For 30 years a fallen robot was a failed demo. Now it's a Tuesday. He picks it up. It stands. The crowd never stopped filming.

PoseLoss @poseloss

6 days ago

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@HodlMiro where i can order it, i need some robokids

A GUY IN BRAZIL BUILT 3 FULL-SIZE ROBOTS IN HIS LIVING ROOM FOR UNDER $4,000. ONE OF THEM IS A POLICE CHAPPIE. THE WIRES ARE HANGING OUT. THEY STILL TURN THEIR HEADS. Tiled floor. Bare walls. A poster of the movie behind them. Orange Chappie, POLICE on the chest, crash-test stickers. A black one with glowing blue eyes and CREATORS on the plate. A blue one in the corner. Hands wired with red cables. 3D-printed panels. Servos exposed. They look at each other. Boston Dynamics spends $500 million a year. This guy spent a printer, a year of nights, and a movie he loved. Robotics was a lab thing. Now it's a garage thing. The next company isn't in Silicon Valley. It's in an apartment with a tiled floor and no furniture.

PoseLoss @poseloss

6 days ago

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@HodlMiro The guy never learned to control his lust

GERMANY BUILT A $180,000 FACE. THE ENGINEER TOOK IT OFF IN 4 SECONDS TO SHOW THE WIRES. SHE SMILED WHILE HE DID IT. Hannover expo. White shirt. Two hands on her jaw. He pulls. The face comes off like a mask. Underneath: a chrome skull, red and orange cables, a glowing ear port. The hair stays. The smile is gone. Everyone in the hall stopped walking. Nobody flinched at the skull. They flinched at how easy it came off. Every realistic android is 2 products. The $180,000 skin that makes you look. The $20,000 machine that does the work. He showed you which one matters. The crowd kept staring at the skin.

PoseLoss @poseloss

6 days ago

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CHINA PUT A $200,000 FACE ON A ROBOT AND IT HAS BETTER SKIN THAN ANYONE FILMING IT. GOLD EARRINGS. WINGED EYELINER. A TINY MOLE BY THE LIP. SOMEONE SAT IN A MEETING AND CHOSE THE MOLE. Shanghai expo. Blue light rings overhead. Engineers in black behind her. NOETIX 松延 across the chest. White shell below. Silicone above. The camera gets 10 cm from her face. Pores. Lash by lash. A dry patch on the lower lip. She looks past the lens, then at it. That's not a factory robot. Factory robots have visors. This has a jawline. The hard engineering is in the legs. The budget went to the cheekbones. Because nobody buys what they don't want to look at.

SOUTH KOREA'S "ANDROID TEST AREA" HAS 1 TEST: CAN YOU TELL SHE ISN'T ALIVE. THE ENGINEER CHECKS HER CHIN LIKE A DENTIST. THEN SHE SMILES AND HE FORGETS WHAT HE WAS CHECKING. Blue sign on the wall. Anatomy diagrams. A lab full of parts. Black hair. Cables down the neck. A glowing chip where the heart goes. He lifts her chin with 1 finger. Her eyes follow his. Cut. Blue hair now. Pearl earring. She laughs with every tooth showing. It's AI. @USUT in the corner. But the fantasy is specific. Not strength. Not labor. A face that reacts to being looked at. The chip in her chest glows blue. Nobody rendered a chip that does work. They rendered one that lights up when she's happy.

A ROBOT COLLAPSED AT THE DONGFENG BOOTH AND AN ENGINEER IN A WHITE SHIRT DROPPED TO HIS KNEES AND STARTED PRESSING ON ITS CHEST. Blue walls. Stage lights. 东风小元 on the screen. Small white humanoid, face down. Sneakers in the air. 4 men in dress shirts. 3 hold the big silver one upright so it doesn't go too. 1 kneels over the fallen one. Both hands on its chest. He's not doing CPR. He's finding the power button. But look at his face. Same face as CPR. That's what 10 hours of booth duty does. The thing on the floor is your job, your bonus, your quarter. A car company's humanoid went down in public. The only thing that got back up was the one being held.

@danbert8 i really thought it was real im sorry guys

A MACHINE JUST POURED A 12-STEP CONCRETE STAIRCASE IN 4 MINUTES. THE 3 MEN WHO USED TO DO IT WATCHED FROM THE WALL. Brazil. Red shirts. Rubber boots. A tracked unit crawls down the slope. Hose feeding wet concrete. Screed shaping each step as it goes. Perfect risers. Perfect treads. No trowel. Behind it, 3 workers. Arms at their sides. That staircase used to be a full day for a crew. Mixing, forming, floating, cursing. Now it's a lunch break. Nobody got fired today. They just stood there while the job walked past them. Tomorrow the company needs 1 man to drive the machine. They sent 3.

PoseLoss @poseloss

2 months ago

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