Mysterious AI Robot "Astribot S1" is Revealed

This new autonomous AI robot, the Astribot S1, has insane speed & accuracy.
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[@cryptout]

How do you even know this is real and not animation?

[@RPG_Guy-fx8ns]

If you are going to compare speeds between robots, you should include a human example, where someone practiced on that repetitive task as a daily job. A human would grab multiple things with each hand and sort things faster, also a human would cook many things at once, way faster than this. These robot designers need to try working in a restaurant kitchen during weekend dinner time, and realize building robots is a very cushy job, and easy compared to actual kitchen work. Minimum wage cooks run around preparing like 15 orders at once, each with their own ingredients. imagine how slow this would be, trying to batter and deep fry shrimp with this robot... Human cooks would hold 5 shrimp in each hand, batter, and bread them, carefully placing them in the oil without splashing it, setting a timer, but they do all this in less than 20 seconds, change gloves, and move onto the next item. This thing doesn't have gloves, and would cause food poisoning, using the same grippers for raw fish, chicken, beef, veggies, etc... It would be a sanitation nightmare compared to humans with gloves, and at the end of every night, you would have to disassemble these robots and run them through the dishwasher, because every crevice would be caked up with flour or breading. Until you see a demo where these things work around other people, in a high intensity real world scenario, its just a toy. If your robot can't consistently make a blooming onion without breaking it, Its not ready for actual kitchen work.

[@skyefreeman9987]

They should probably ground it so it stops shocking everyone

[@ma2i485]

😂

[@TimotejFedlimid-zo3hy]

Well, there goes my shirt folding job.

[@ai-tools-search]

😢

[@laughablelarry9243]

You joke but there are actual jobs where all you do is fold clothes all day.

[@TimotejFedlimid-zo3hy]

@@laughablelarry9243 Costco

[@dancyano]

😅

[@RealGrooveRandom]

Well there goes my body poppin' moves..

[@brett2themax]

At .03mm of accuracy, this is a perfect candidate for medical surgery.

[@ai-tools-search]

Good idea! I haven't thought of that

[@user-ef4ym3lu4p]

Yes... I can just imagine this thing leaning over my paralyzed body and telling bad jokes as it slowly harvests my organs.

[@zippdoesstuffyt]

i think robots are already used for some surgeries. not human like ones tho.

[@thcoura]

From handling small objects to a machine gun is a little step.

[@RVXIE17]

bruh wild idea

[@ai-tools-search]

🤐

[@kobi2187]

i actually thought of its speed ... hand fighting

[@nanotech_republika]

It is so good that it felt like it was tele-operated.

[@redstrat1234]

Exactly.

[@ErikBongers]

Ok, if it can assemble a little IKEA foot stool it's already smarter than me.

[@TheClassicallMusketeer]

If it can make me toast then it is revolutionary and should be mass produced.

[@shida.n]

my goodness, that hand speed

[@raffaelecafiero3608]

Hands???

[@joshua1846]

Ayo... what are you trying to say?

[@Billy4321able]

These are all pre-programmed and per-trained tasks made specifically for this demo. It's crucial people understand that we've been able to do everything in this demo for DECADES. The only thing new here is the claim that it's using a machine learning model to accomplish these tasks through natural language input. If you've ever wondered how automation took away factory jobs decades ago, this video shows how. Pre-programmed assembly line instructions to complete tasks that require fine precision. They aren't even particularly precise in this demonstration. So now they must prove that this system can work in any novel context (works anywhere), can do so autonomously, and does so via natural language instructions without prior knowledge. So take this all with a grain of salt, and wait to see if it ends up in any real factories or other commercial enterprises.

[@OnsiteOneSolutions]

"these are all pre-programmed". false. boston dynamics robots are not pre-programmed, and these recent robots from openAI, tesla, and this astribot is a leap past boston dynamics, because they are also using language models like chatgpt to generalize all their tasks. this has been demonstrated with various tech releases in the past 12 months. the entire ai hype these past 18 months is due to the fact things are not being preprogrammed any longer, and this feature is being implemented in these recent robots. is seems your awareness is out of date.

[@svendtang5432]

@@OnsiteOneSolutions he’s doubting the authenticity of the claims that is what he’s doing.. we’ve seen claims like this before … so if the claims that it’s doing this without prior specific training it’s impressive but else he’s completely correct

[@OnsiteOneSolutions]

@@svendtang5432 and i've cited numerous instances that counter his and your claim that these latest robots (boston dynamics, meta, tesla, openai, etc) are not pre-programmed. "we've seen claims like this before.." okay? any examples? here's where it'd be useful for you (or the prior commenter) to cite examples to support your assertion.

[@tjpprojects7192]

​@@OnsiteOneSolutionsI mean, to be fair, you didn't actually cite anything useable. Just because other companies like OpenA.I., Meta, Tesla, etc... have decent A.I. doesn't mean that the company who developed this bot was using ANY of their A.I. or an equivalent A.I. I've seen my fair share of staged or moderated, "demonstrations".

[@OnsiteOneSolutions]

@@tjpprojects7192 all i hear is this: "we've seen claims like this before." "I've seen my fair share of staged or moderated, demonstrations." And when i ask for specifics, there is none. meanwhile i've pointed at specific examples of companies that have produced AI and robotics are proven not to be pre-programmed, refuting this weak claim that "these are ALL pre-programmed". who or what is 'all' ? sure, this latest robot Astribot 'could' be pre-programmed. But, taking into context the latest dozen or so tech showcases in the past year that establish a clear trend that all so far are not pre-programmed, your claim is certainly going against the current trend of evidence. so again, what are your many examples of tech reveals that claimed to not be pre-programmed but turned out to be pre-programmed? you are up against the myriad of tech reveals that are certainly not pre-programmed - including chatgpt, claude, gemini, copilot, atlas robot, spot, figure1, optimus, etc.

[@Nikolajnen]

It's finally happening! 👍 And remember, it will only improve from here.

[@raffaelecafiero3608]

Long way to go. At the moment It doesnt even look like a humanoid robot. It doesn't talk, it doesn't walk, It has not real head, only cameras. His arms look more like excavator arms. It has no real hands, nor legs. Speed Is nothing, stupid industrial robots are fast, but definitely we need much more than this. Tesla Optimus Is the future , because It can operate a full day without charging , It can manipulate things whit real hands, It Is really AI driven. His Speed Is enough to operate in real situations. This robot Is trash

[@Nikolajnen]

@@raffaelecafiero3608 If you want a humanoid robot, then sure, I guess you are right. But what I am seeing how this will impact the job market in a major way. It doesn't really matter to me which robot is the most optimal in this case, I just want robots to take away all the repetitive, soul-crushing jobs so we can advance as a society already.

[@raffaelecafiero3608]

@@Nikolajnen but they exist since decades!!! The real difference are humanoid robots with AI and physical capacities equivalent to human ones. Because they have to move in a space usually occupied by humans, and do activities that actual pre programmed robots cannot do.

[@asdfghjkl-jk6mu]

​@@raffaelecafiero3608stopped reading the moment you mentioned Tesla Optimus. you're clearly not very educated about the topics at hand

[@DerrickLaCombe1]

It's all about HOW MANY TIMES did it take the bot to perform these tasks flawlessly? ... and can it perform every time flawlessly?

[@IsmaelAlvesBr]

If thousands of people teleoperate, then, with AI, it can learn and do the stuff for itself in the end

[@HansDunkelberg1]

And it never unlearns.

[@tiergeist2639]

i think it's still operated by someone

[@rendermanpro]

Funny people "teleoperated" - even if it is teleoperated - such a precise motors, smooth motion, fast. I think the machine learning part is way much simplier than create this as a machine.

[@christopherwallaceorr6977]

My thoughts also, just the mechanics of it are crazy.

[@rabokarabekian409]

YAY! Another video about a video, with no context, that SHOCKS everyone. So I can either get this robot or find a normal 6-year-old.

[@Bartetmedia]

smooth, nice!

[@oiuhwoechwe]

can it work the roomba?

[@RichardLucas]

They are killin' it. Figure 1 is also impressive, but in terms of the sizzle reels, this one has an edge. But there's also the new Atlas, which no one ought count out, yet. It's all wonderful. There is enough room for all of them and keep them coming, and you guys ought be competing but also working out open standards, too.

[@user-tg9yo2vo6u]

new atlas beats them all in every way

[@netherportals]

There is something funny about a robot using a wooden mallet

[@IntenseInvestor]

On your nuts !

[@IbizanHound2]

And on top of outperforming the rest, it just looks so much better! Really clean design, while the rest look too industrial and/or in development phase still. This looks like something that belongs in a house without sticking out.

[@waylandchin]

This robot used a special shirt folding technique that is faster than normal

[@99NOFX]

"I was literally shocked!' By which I don't actually mean "literally" or "shocked"

[@Amipotsophspond]

hard programmed robots can be way faster then this. at 3:02 you see how the magic trick is done, so you can program this robot with just a video, not a guy in a special suit, or G code. move the robot over 5 inches and you will see the issue, as it will likely do the cup stacking in the same way with out the cups being in the correct place.

[@juki0h391]

I'm not surprised by this. China is very serious about humanoid robots. They plan on implementing them into their economy as soon as possible. It's going to be one of the major driving factors for their economic growth.

[@Im_Just_Saying]

7:00 The demonstrations look impressive on the surface, but I don't give much credit to these types of showcases, regardless of the manufacturer, because they are often selectively edited to highlight the best results. There’s no transparency about how many attempts were made or how long it took to get usable footage for the demo. To be genuinely impressed, I need to see the product perform in real-time, evaluated by an impartial third party, without the influence of selective editing. Regarding the cups, he didn't actually stack them. He merely positioned them over the top without releasing them, then slid them back into place. Even my blind grandmother could do that.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

In the end, even the entire video could be computer-generated.

[@James-md8ph]

Anyone know what the music in the demo is?

[@ai-tools-search]

I made it with Udio. The original was copyright

[@anunusualnick8340]

Is it on Spotify? 😊 ​@@ai-tools-search

[@sgfx]

6:45 I'm not sure about the other videos, but that particular video of the Teslabot is about a year old. Since the Tesla bot itself is just over two years old and we've seen its progress in its first 12-14 months, we can assume its speed and capabilities have surpassed what was shown in the video.

[@ShaunDunmall]

Insane is about right.

[@dr.noname6602]

still folding a shirt faster then me ..

[@FelipeSilva-yo4el]

I understand the breakthrough when compared with other models, but honestly I don't understand why it's so impressive since this robot is programed to do this things. I mean, what to extent is the robot doing it and not a script made for a single video?

[@SlackerMagician]

your channel is a good source of information on AI thank you

[@ai-tools-search]

Thanks!

[@joeking5215]

Amazing 🤩

[@ai-tools-search]

🙌

[@antanicchio71]

it's sketchy as fuck if you ask me

[@sulrich70]

Agree, it’s not a guy in a suit (looking at you Elon) however something is not right here.

[@ronilevarez901]

It might look good standing still at the kitchen, chopping stuff or cooking, but I'd like it to have a more typical body, including legs. It would look better to me. (Also, you never know when it's going to be necessary to run uphill chasing those pesky humans 🙃).

[@bobtarmac1828]

Ai jobloss is the only thing I worry about anymore.

[@anatalelectronics4096]

i am not shocked

[@KundaliniCentral]

Dude Flipping toast is realy easy😂

[@OnsiteOneSolutions]

people: "if you think you're good at that, there's always some asian kid who can do it better." Astribot: hold my wine bottle... ** beep boop ** (in chinese)

[@skyzar4141]

Wow I can actually work now

[@xeviusUsagi]

Here are the jobs this type of technology can remove if improved: [! This is not a complete list. !] Most likely: - Warehouse jobs - Stocking grocery shops - cashiers - factory work - Clothes shops (although the human contact and fashion tips a human can give you might prevent total substitution, but nothing stops an Ai from figuring out the perfect outfit for you and for the moment you needed it) - Dish washers - waiter (Although the human contact especially in elegant restaurants will most likely prevent total substitution) Medium likely: - driving jobs** (Taxi, delivery, trucks) - Structure building (building homes, offices, shops, bridges, etc... ) [not design --> although other specialized Ai could do this. ] - Cooking (mostly fast food, restaurants will most likely have the main Chef keep the job while other assistants and dish washers are removed.) **Yeah, autonomous car exist and might be the most likely way driving jobs are substituted, but you can't negate a humanoid robot can learn to drive and do it well, you know... like a human. especially fitted for truck driving, can load and unload the truck, repair it and drive it.

[@kraftaculousgreekgodofcraf1113]

Yea whatever, have this robit try to organize my desk.. it will unalive itself in seconds after trying to compute the mess 😂

[@catoftruth1044]

how about do the vacuum on the floor and not on the table?

[@lawlaw585]

Im literally shocked when the S1 mimicking arms dancing. I guess it can mimicking a stabbing murdering, too

[@ai-tools-search]

run for your life!

[@antoniobutcher]

that's not a robot, that's a woahbot!

[@tyisamess]

The future is just around the corner!

[@Keenan686]

Ok now the bots must take over the sport industry

[@Tschoii90]

I will believe it when it is proven that it was not teleoperated or pre-programmed.

[@pirateonmeleeisland2973]

no, you are not "litterally" shocked @ai search

[@svendtang5432]

If they told the robot to stack the cups and then just move it and the cup to another table and changed the cups live I would be convinced

[@alexjshank]

"No teleoperation" -> proceeds to demonstrate teleoperation. Seems like total bs to me. Their first person view looks like a basic object recognition demo; no depth or segmentation or deeper inference that it would need if it were really performing any of those actions on it's own. And if you had that data vis, why would you choose to show what is essentially kindergartener level object recognition anyone can setup in 10 minutes

[@tiergeist2639]

its fake asf imo, but you never know. Chinese are not good inventing stuff, but they can code. never underestimate them

[@Chickenbiter]

Total bullshido

[@quarion125]

@@tiergeist2639that’s racism

[@ryangonzales7716]

​@@tiergeist2639Spoken out of pure ignorance.

[@passby8070]

It should have just a simple track wheels for stability and cost efficiency, no need for legs for its first model l.

[@rendermanpro]

As a helper for people with disabilities it's awesome, fantastic...................... but the main purpose is just cut *your* job to not pay your salary...

[@ThaPHLASH]

i swear the head of the Astribot look like its using the Microsoft Kinect Azure...

[@neut1121]

its not teleoperated. source: trust me bro

[@kefetDtcom]

look man figure one show the entire video the entire video of Astribot S1 video is not from the beginning to the end. very misleading.

[@zlatimirrangelov3352]

It's so beautiful 🥲

[@erniecho]

This thing looks like Shockwave. Do you think the Decepticons are already on earth?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@australien6611]

"The Turk" automaton

[@mgalikhanisaeid8033]

The movements are more humanlike than that of any other robot I've ever seen. So obviously they have made huge progress in that regard. As for the AI and self learning and working through natural language, that will be far far into the future, which at the pace things are moving right now, means by the end of this year, or next. I'm counting on China to come out with the most advanced and humanlike robots, at ever decreasing prices due to mass production. Hopefully in a few years we will have care taker robots that will solve the problem of aging population in almost all developed nations.

[@nickv.s125]

''shocks everyone'' ... Do all these AI bots have a built-in stun gun or what? 😅

[@faithfaraday]

You are "literally" using that wording correctly. Cool video, though.

[@nekemli2622]

How to use it wrongly?

[@aeloolindowy]

Why it didn't admit that it saw its own hands too, but only all the other items on the table?

[@Siranoxz]

Very impressive indeed!. As soon if starts cooking a mean and doing construction work cleaning work then we have the right to be shocked.

[@kevinsm2039]

It was sloppy with the bottle cap. It didn’t ensure the fruit was properly inside the container before closing it . The fry pan flip was specifically programmed for that weight of food . The pouring of small tea spoon in the frying pan was sloppy. There’s no way it knew that was a hello kitty toy . Totally preprogrammed bs. Slow asf . Will come back in 10 years when it actually is close to even human level

[@Nynex]

When it secretly builds another astribot we might be in trouble.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

That is indeed already a fairly realistic scenario, by now. Horrible!

[@Nukelover]

Until robots can replicate this performance in random cluttered environments with zero human intervention, while compensating in graceful ways when facing interference, they'll be toys. You need to be able to say "Go organize my library by author," and not need to do anything else -- even if your library is just a pile of books in a difficult to navigate room with strewn with old records and half-eaten pizza lying around. Otherwise, humans are both better and cheaper.

[@catoftruth1044]

how about fold clothes and go to my messy cabinet and sort it out, without tripping on the mess things on the floor

[@danielchoritz1903]

We came a long way, first robots build cars and high tec, now they learn to do shores. Thats next?

[@FistedSister]

The cup stacking could easily be faked by creating a "clock" that slows, then ramping the speed in post, to match. Even if THAT segment were real, robots use motors, motors can move fast.., and..? This is clearly being teleoperated by a human, with all the small involuntary muscle jitters that humans display. When it's manipulating an object with just one hand, watch its other 'at rest' arm/wrist/hand closely. Notice anything? It seems to mimic the minute muscle twitches a human would have, articulating one arm, while trying to hold the other perfectly still. Try it. If that's the "AI" adding in all those micro-movements, in multiple axes, just to appear more lifelike... great I suppose, just would seem an awfully inefficient waste of power and wear on the motors/joints. Unlike muscles, motors don't make ANY movement that they're not specifically signaled to make, and I doubt an AI is going to intentionally bog down it's own CPU with that sort of noise, for...aesthetics? I mean, it's cool for what it is, but an AI is not cooking up these articulations in real time, IMO. Not yet anyway, (didn't Tesla do this recently?), lol. Probably the only AI manipulation going on here, culminated with me robotically clicking on this vid 😉 Sorry, this isn't C3PO, it's Anthony Daniels.

[@kennyg1358]

Demos keep showing motor skills. the brain and the cost are what matters.

[@Yosser70]

don’t actually see much AI being used here. Like when it puts the toys away, did it learn it had to stabilise the draw with one hand before it could open or close it, or was it programmed.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

That's a good question!

[@KevinHarper3DArtist]

This seams remote controlled to me

[@calebatha7133]

The mobile aloha cooking is teleoperated

[@rendermanpro]

So it can play a shell game?

[@ArcanePath360]

IT'S GOT A KNIFE!!!!

[@3dScience8]

😅😁..... 😳😵

[@ai-tools-search]

run!!!!

[@redstrat1234]

I don't believe that, the whole thing is a set up. How is it getting it's instructions ? There's someone off camera with a hand/grip rig operating it remotely. If that is actually real, we're fucked.

[@meanhornet5560]

Ok I get it not bad for a robot BUT not a big deal either!

[@SuperGoldenv]

Now let's see it open a tin of beans with a £1 can opener.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

That is a great idea!

[@ambiuscyben4045]

Doesn't seem impressive to me relative to the stuff like Boston Dynamics etc... This bot doesn't demonstrate without a doubt that it's not just some pre-fabricated program doing the same task over again with a button press.. like pre-rendered animations. I'd like to see it in real time and a guy pushing the objects around while it's doing the task... not to mention it looks like a stationary bot. Otherwise meh, we did this stuff quite some time ago. The movements/engineering aren't impressive either relatively, cuz I found an open source project by a Japanese company that achieves the same thing. Overall, it's awesome but they could've done better with the demo unless they are hiding something.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Good arguments!

[@svenfruiti494]

wait...this is real. holy f...

[@impulsive_dark]

We're done😢

[@fmphotooffice5513]

I expected Keith Moon to jump in in the soundtrack... (joke)

[@EddyKorgo]

Okey. pouring the wine into a glass vase. Now. It was close one, but it did it. I must applause to AI thats impressive. im sure just the visualisation of transparent objects can be tricky sometimes. especially with bad natural lighting

[@ai-tools-search]

that's a good point!

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

It's all pre-programmed. It's like a Radioshack toy.

[@mottebailley4122]

Uh huh. When was the last time you’ve seen a RadioShack toy with this level of dexterity?

[@Srindal4657]

Even if it was preprogrammed, does it matter?

[@Lerppunen]

It’s not pre-programmed.

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

@@Lerppunen Says who?

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

@@mottebailley4122 1986

[@sulrich70]

“ a red pan”…

[@itsjustme373]

I don’t mean to flippant but nothing in the demo was earth shattering.

[@tiergeist2639]

and it seems operated by a person. thats not a machine doing all this alone

[@ExaltedMediaInc]

I don't think it's autonomos at all.

[@interestedinstuff1499]

You are definitely not an AI. It isn't 1 ex speed, it is 1 times speed. And one doesn't do things at a quick speed, one does things quickly. I'll prob get shit from the Internet as a pedant now, or my English will get pulled apart. Oh well. Good video. I think their design asthetic sucks, but its performance is wild. I wonder if the segmentation model is running locally. My guess is they are using their own model or a local isntance of a frontier one given how quickly it responds to directions. Wild times ahead. There's going to be lots of robots for us to pick from. Keep up the good work.

[@hakfilm]

it. can. open. a. beer. - sold

[@ai-tools-search]

😃

[@Techtalk2030]

It didnt shock me

[@Freelancer604]

I think they just assassinated teslabot in the crib

[@aufklarungbibelundchristen3636]

I think the magic is, that the robot copy, what he see. In front of this robot do a human something and the robot does exactly the same, it s not teleoperation- is visioncontrol. The robot does exactly what he see.

[@kuzon5613]

that's a bitter pill to swallow

[@High-Tech-Geek]

Astribot is just replaying human recorded movements. They don't show any objects being moved or shuffled or reset like in some of the other robot vids. They even show the human dancing at the end. That's how this robot is programmed. Good luck getting it to work in random situations. Plus... they aren't showing you all the FAILS. How many flips of a sandwich were done until the bread barely stayed in the pan? Who knows. Every single shot of the Astribot is absolutely cherry picked.

[@Keglanek]

One step closer to AI robot catgirls!

[@ai-tools-search]

😃

[@okletmesignup]

This dude gets it :D

[@malootua2739]

I don't trust that this is legit

[@Jacques.dAnjou]

Guys can it do me dishes please thank you 🙏

[@3ertin]

I don't understand why it moves the hand that is not doing anything. I mean, its normal for a human to do, but completely illogical for a robot. That tells me, it may not be teleoperated, but the operations may be pre-recorded. So pretty useless.

[@ZincFold]

This is the worst this tech will ever be.

[@1n1lymk]

Khana banawao aur bartan dhulwao isse😂😂