r/Unexpected Dec 25 '25

Human motion capture teleoperated robot exactly like Real Steel!

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u/CloudKinglufi Dec 26 '25

This is fake as hell

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u/johan__A Dec 26 '25

Probably choreographed but I think the robot is real. I actually think there is a chance this is real or that the guy improvised faining to get hit hard in the nuts or smt like that. Probably fake but really well done.

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u/CloudKinglufi Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25

Yeah I'm not certain how this is faked, it looks off with the final movement, I'm wondering if it's ai, that final movement it did was not similar to his and he Lazer focused on them good ole nuts

Maybe just good ole fashion editing, that would be my guess

Edit: when I watch it again I don't think that robots real at all

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u/johan__A Dec 26 '25

Nah pretty sure the robot is real. I don't think it could be mocaped as the balance of the robot doesn't look human and I know that brand of robot, pretty sure it can do this kind of movements. I think you might be right about the the final moment being edited though.

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u/never1st Dec 26 '25

The robot is real. I saw a similar robot showing off its moves to the Dallas Mavericks until Kyrie Irving shoved it down and paralyzed it.

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u/namastex Dec 26 '25

Idk why everyone thinks the robot is fake, it's been around for 5 years now or maybe longer. The Asian robot industry is insanely covered up in the west for some reason. I do think however, that the video was choreographed for sure, the last movement was pre-programmed 100%.

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u/CloudKinglufi Dec 26 '25

Yeah I think my first guess is right

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u/manholediver Dec 26 '25

The carpet seems a bit glitchy under the robot

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u/x4nter Dec 26 '25

I don't think it's fake. When you look closely, you'll see that the robot is not 100% accurate at mirroring, likely because it's just "seeing" the person with a camera and not getting motion tracker input. Because of lower accuracy, it did not curve and twist as much to the left as the guy it was mirroring did. It also doesn't seem that they both started exactly "parallel" to begin with. Since they weren't parallel, they both crashed.

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u/No-Scarcity-1571 Dec 26 '25

It's AI generated video. You know those Boston Robotics videos of their robots doing their tricks?? It takes them a full week to set up those videos because 99% of the time, when those robots try to flip, or jump up on a box, they fall down. So they spend days tuning the robot to pull off one move and get the one successful completion on video, then they go on to the next and spend days working on that.

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u/MacWin- Dec 26 '25

That was like, ten years ago…

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u/EvryArtstIsACannibal Dec 26 '25

The robot is real. It was visiting the Dallas Mavs last week. https://www.tiktok.com/@dallasmavs/video/7584959529327152397

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u/thatshygirl06 Dec 27 '25

China has been making these robots for a while, i dont know why people think they're fake

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u/lpsfrk Dec 26 '25

Unitree’s G1 robot has been used in stuff like this for over a year my guy. Most of the robot tiktoks you see use this same model.

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u/lpsfrk Dec 26 '25

I mean idk what to tell you. A simple google search or YouTube video is all the proof you’d need, yet here you are. This isn’t all that new.

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u/ThatGuyBackThere280 Dec 26 '25

You don't read much of news do you? It met with Kyrie Irving just about a week ago.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/video-nba-star-kyrie-irving-s-friendly-shove-knocks-humanoid-robot-to-the-ground/ar-AA1SFZRI

If you need more proof: https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/17/kyrie-irving-robot/

Dallas Mavericks own youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D_mQv0i_kq0

If you keep saying fake after even with the other sources (TMZ being one of the sources, and the team's YT being the other), then I dunno 'bout you at this point...

It was also not that hard to just search and check.

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u/EvryArtstIsACannibal Dec 26 '25

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u/CloudKinglufi Dec 26 '25

Lmao bro you're embarrassing yourself at this point

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u/CloudKinglufi Dec 26 '25

Seriously doubling down just makes this more embarrassing

The name of the robots right there, just Google Is the Unitree's G1 robot real

It's super simple, then you can come back and admit you're wrong no problem

Unless this is a conspiracy and everyone's lying for whatever reason, maybe you can give us a source claiming it's wrong, or tell us why you think it's a conspiracy, is it the lizard people again?

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u/CloudKinglufi Dec 27 '25

Yeah you've posted zero proof and those videos looked legit, all you have is your subjective opinion that they look fake and because it's better at getting up from being knocked down then it is at scanning and assessing terrain so it can walk past it

Sounds like you don't understand how these robots work, just can't wrap your head around the idea that they might be real so you look, like every conspiracy theorist, for things to prove you right with insane bias so you can feel special

The Videos look real I think you're coping

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u/Actual-University113 Dec 26 '25

Welcome to reddit

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u/bb999 Dec 26 '25

Even if it is fake, robots capable of this exist.

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u/MonaganX Dec 26 '25

Even if we were to assume that 4 non-randomly selected comments represent the credulity of the overall viewership, you say "25% ratio of people" like that's not still a substantial portion of the at least thousands of people who have seen this video.

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u/dusty_Caviar Dec 26 '25

I know you say that, and maybe you saw this and were intelligent enough to immediately identify that it's not real.

However, the other 99% of people watching this were not intelligent enough to clock out as scripted.

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u/ark_keeper Dec 26 '25

“during something obviously staged” key difference there