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Robot Bodyguards are now in play? Ep 3451 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith radio program. I'm Gary McCance.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining here on episode 3451. Oh, uh-oh, bodyguards.
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  Speaker 1: You're in trouble now. You're in trouble now. Frank Landymore,
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  Speaker 1: over at Futurism, laid it out about Unatree and Bell's
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  Speaker 1: fearsome bodyguard robots. Personal security may start to look a
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  Speaker 1: little different. Surely the robots that's been heavily marketed with
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of martial arts stunts would never be designed
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  Speaker 1: for violent ends, right? We're less certain than ever. Recently
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  Speaker 1: China's Unitary released a teaser for its new bodyguard robot.
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  Speaker 1: Like with this uber popular G1 model, It demonstrated that
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  Speaker 1: the humanoid robot, the H2X Kung Fu Legend Guardian, could
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  Speaker 1: pull off all sorts of physical feats. Only this time,
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  Speaker 1: it's implied that these violent capabilities are not only for show.
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  Speaker 1: In a promotional video, it goes, The robot performs his
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  Speaker 1: own veritable Jackie Chan high-lit rail front-flipping overcar somersaulting after
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  Speaker 1: jumping from a high point. It's not even funny. And
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  Speaker 1: flying through a series of acrobatic kicks. At one point,
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  Speaker 1: it even lifts a vehicle to save someone from being crushed.
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  Speaker 1: Punches a dent in the door of another and scares
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  Speaker 1: off a staged knife man. The robot was built on
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  Speaker 1: Unitree's existing H2 model, a full-sized robot that stands at
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  Speaker 1: 71 inches tall, weighs around 155 pounds, and it's still
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  Speaker 1: unclear how Unitree intends the robot to be used beyond
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  Speaker 1: branding it as a robotic bodyguard. Unitree highlighted that the
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  Speaker 1: new model can operate for about eight hours while standing
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  Speaker 1: But should customers expect their clinker guardians to bust out
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  Speaker 1: kung fu moves while they're being and feeling threatened? Will
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  Speaker 1: the robot know when to intervene without being told to?
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  Speaker 1: We also don't know if the video shows a robot
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  Speaker 1: acting on its own, being teleoperated or carrying out pre-programmed moves.
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  Speaker 1: In any way, it's easy to see how the robot's
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  Speaker 1: heroic to end up going wrong in the real world.
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  Speaker 1: Look no further than one of the video's most eyebrow-raising
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  Speaker 1: stunts in which the robot dives in to save a
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  Speaker 1: child from a slowly moving car. It looks like the
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  Speaker 1: stuff of epic action heroes, but the 150-pound pile of
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  Speaker 1: metal sends the child dummy absolutely flying onto the pavement,
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  Speaker 1: which outside the fantasy realm of a slick tech demo
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  Speaker 1: would be a one-way ticket to brain damage. We've already
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  Speaker 1: seen videos of the painful aftermath of getting kicked in
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  Speaker 1: the chest by a G1 robot. The victim, a little kid,
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  Speaker 1: was hit in the nose by another. As of now,
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  Speaker 1: Unit 3 hasn't said how much the robot would cost
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  Speaker 1: or when it would go on sale. All right. Uh-oh, bodyguards.
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  Speaker 1: Remember now, they claimed jobs weren't going to be taken.
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  Speaker 1: They did say that, didn't they?