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  • 5/8/2025
⚠️ Shocking AI Robot Incident Caught Live! During a robotics demo, an AI robot suddenly malfunctions and attacks engineers on camera! πŸ€–πŸ’₯😱

In this AI Revolution episode, we cover:
πŸŽ₯ The full breakdown of the viral robot attack footage
🚨 What experts are saying about the risks of autonomous robots
🧠 Advances in robotics AI that might be going too far
πŸ”§ Updates on new robotic systems from Tesla, Boston Dynamics, and more
🌍 What this means for the future of human-robot interaction

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Transcript
00:00Robots are getting real. Like, dangerously real. One of them just snapped mid-demo and started
00:07swinging at engineers like it was auditioning for a Terminator reboot. And while that clip
00:12set social media on fire, it's only the start. In China, a car company is putting life-sized
00:18blonde humanoids with ponytails and sunglasses into showrooms to sell vehicles. Over in Germany,
00:25a robotics company is rolling out a humanoid worker that runs eight hours straight and costs
00:30less than a Tesla. Across the ocean in California, Berkeley just dropped a $5,000 DIY humanoid you
00:37can print at home, and people are already tweaking it to walk better and live longer. Meanwhile,
00:44Hyundai is going full sci-fi, bringing Boston Dynamics Atlas robots onto the factory floor
00:50to build 300,000 electric cars a year. So let's talk about it. But before we jump in,
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01:35so check the link below before the price goes up. All right, now the viral robot freakout clip
01:41is already framed as a meme, but the clip itself is almost too on the nose to ignore. Source,
01:47the Belarusian TV outfit Nexta, which reposted factory security footage shot somewhere in China.
01:54The robot in question, a half-finished humanoid dangling from a construction crane like a
02:00marionette, was meant to be going through a routine motion range test. Two engineers stood
02:05underneath, hands on tablets, reading out servo IDs. Suddenly, every joint spiked. The bot windmilled its
02:12arms kicked its feet, yanked the suspension line sideways, and slid its welded stand across polished
02:17concrete. The desktop PC smashed to the floor, a bucket of fasteners scattered, and both engineers
02:24scrambled out of reach while the crane hook groaned overhead. The whole tantrum lasted maybe 20 seconds,
02:30but it drew more than 100,000 views in four hours and spawned 69 comment thread jokes about Skynet.
02:39One viewer wrote, Sarah Connor was feffing right. Another posted a GIF of Robocop's ED-209 falling
02:48downstairs, and a surgical resident admitted the scene reminded him that a DaVinci console is just
02:54motors and firmware after all. That clip parallels a wave of headline-friendly prototypes China has
03:01paraded all winter. Pudu Robotics' D9 can walk at 4.5 MPH, climb stairs, and take a hip check without
03:09tumbling. Clone Robotics' February demo of the proto-clone musculoskeletal android flexed synthetic
03:16tendons and promised it would one day cook, clean, and hold a conversation. Commenters loved the tech,
03:23but called the atmosphere dystopian. The outburst handed them fresh ammunition. It showed how violently
03:28a torque value can run away when the safety envelope isn't nailed down. Meanwhile, 500 kilometers west
03:36of Shanghai, Cherry Automotive is leaning into the opposite mood, charm. The company, run out of
03:43municipal woohoo and building cars since the mid-90s, has decided its next showroom employee will be
03:50Mornene, a life-size blonde android wearing wraparound sunglasses and a ponytail. Cherry partnered with
03:57a robotics outfit called AI MOGA in June 2024 and demoed Mornene at last year's Shanghai Auto Show.
04:04This week, the robot reappeared on stage behind Cherry International president Zhang Guibing
04:09in a lineup of identical units. Zhang told dealers, the market for humanoids has more potential than
04:16vehicles and declared AI MOGA is the real future for the Cherry company. The price, roughly the same
04:23as a car, so figure mid-five figures, though any dealer willing to write a purchase order gets an
04:28undisclosed discount. Even at list price, 220 units are promised for delivery in 2025 and one is already
04:37greeting shoppers in a Malaysian dealership, dispensing bottled water with carbon fiber fingers
04:43and answering trim package questions in a pleasantly synthetic alto. The shades aren't
04:48a fashion gag. They hide a surround view camera array that stitches 360 degrees vision and every
04:55fingertip carries capacitive pads that can feel when a customer taps a brochure. A social media clip of
05:01Mornene's junk in the trunk dance routine at the woohoo launch drew a comment section nearly as long as
05:07the robot's spec sheet. One top-rated reply wondered whether the corporate dress code needed updating for
05:14plastic blondes. If Cherry is selling vibes, Iggy GmbH is selling spreadsheet math. The Cologne-based
05:21motion plastics company spent 15 years harvesting tribology data for low-friction polymers. Now it's
05:28packaging those parts into a full humanoid called Iggy Rob that undercuts almost every western competitor.
05:34Headline number 47,999 euros, roughly $54,500 at today's rate, which is a third the price of
05:44Agility's Digit and half the rumored price of Tesla's Optimus. Iggy stands 1.7 meters tall, but it doesn't
05:52walk. The torso bolts onto Iggy's Rebel Move Autonomous Mobile Base, a wheeled platform with a three-point
05:59bearing that can carry 50 kilograms of its own mass plus 100 kilograms of payload. Two Rebel Cobot arms
06:06sprout from the shoulders, each sporting a six-axis hymonic gearbox stack, and Iggy's bionic hands clamp
06:14payloads with polymer gears that never need grease. Navigation comes from a roof mount LiDAR and paired
06:213D cameras at eye level. Runtime is eight hours on a single lithium pack. The whole bundle talks
06:27ROS2 is CE certified for Europe and slots into VDA 5050 fleet management dashboards that German
06:36factories already use for tuggers and pallet movers. Iggy's sales pitch is brutally practical.
06:42They'll ship an evaluation unit, let your team test it in a live cell, maybe at a reception desk,
06:48maybe clearing cutlery in the canteen, then fly in an engineer to tweak pick points. If the trial
06:55makes financial sense, you keep the robot and pay the invoice. All right, underpinning that confidence
07:00is a three-step roadmap. The 2022 Rebel Cobalt Arm proved the drivetrain. The 2023 Rebel Hand won an
07:10RBR 50 award for under $1,000 dexterity and the 2024 Rebel Move AMR handled the powertrain. Iggy is
07:19just the pieces screwed together. Across the Atlantic, University of California Berkeley's robotics lab
07:26is taking the price war almost to hobby level. Their Berkeley Humanoid Light project dropped complete
07:33CAD, firmware, and reinforcement learning scripts onto GitHub with an NSF grant tag. The
07:40robot stands 0.8 meters tall, call it a toddler, with 22 cycloid gearboxes. You can print on any
07:46home FDM machine that handles a 200 by 200 by 200 millimeter envelope. Hardware bill in the U.S. comes
07:55to $4,312, sourced from Shenzhen, and it's $3,236. The costliest line items are 10 high-torque 6512 actuators
08:07at $188 each, and 12 lighter 5010s at $136 each. Control is a $120 Intel N95 mini PC pushing four one-megabit
08:21CAN 2.0 buses at 250 hertz. Power is a six-cell 4,000 MAH LiPo giving 30 minutes of runtime. On paper, that looks anemic.
08:33But Berkeley's party trick is software. They trained a walking policy entirely in simulation and watched it
08:41transfer zero-shot to real hardware. The release video shows the bot stepping off a lab bench, shrugging
08:48its shoulders, writing its initials with a felt tip, stacking foam cubes, and spinning a scrambled Rubik's cube.
08:55Solving will take firmware V2.0. The paper's appendix introduces a tongue-in-cheek performance per dollar metric.
09:03Peak joint torque divided by height normalized by price. By that measure, the $5,000 platform outranks several
09:11six-figure commercial machines. Reddit's verdict is split. Half the commenters call it the Raspberry Pi
09:17Moment for Legged Robots. The rest say the demo looks like toys from 2013 and warn that 3D printing
09:25gear teeth in PLA is a reliability nightmare. Either way, the Repos Issues tab already hosts pull requests
09:32for longer pipe batteries and alternative gear ratios, which was exactly the point.
09:37Barrickleam wants hundreds of garage tinkerers pushing the design forward without waiting for
09:43corporate roadmaps. If Berkeley is pushing from the bottom and Igu's from the middle,
09:48Hyundai is battering the ceiling. The Korean automaker closed its purchase of Boston Dynamics
09:53in 2021. Now it's folding the Atlas platform β€” yes, the parkour-doing celebrity robot β€” into
10:00a new factory complex in Bryan County, Georgia. The plant sits at the core of a $21 billion US investment
10:08package, $6 billion of which is earmarked for automation and mobility tech. Hyundai already
10:14deploys Boston Dynamics' four-legged spot for inspection rounds. Bringing in two-legged Atlas units
10:20is a bigger leap. The goal is 300,000 electric and hybrid vehicles per year, feeding a plan to push
10:27U.S. production capacity from 700,000 cars this year to 1.2 million by the end of the decade.
10:35Hyundai hasn't said how many Atlases it's buying, but supply chain whispers point to tens of thousands
10:41of robots across multiple categories. Atlas's appeal is clear β€” it can step over conveyor tracks,
10:48climb stairs, and thread through weld booths designed for humans. Which means Hyundai can
10:53retool software faster than it could re-pour concrete. Labor unions are publicly worried about
10:58job displacement, yet management argues that uptime and safety statistics will speak for themselves once
11:04the bots clock in. The welding cell of 2026 might look like a human tech with a tablet,
11:10three Atlas units hauling stamped panels, and a dozen fixed ABB wrists performing spot welds β€” a
11:16species mashup the industry has never seen at scale. So, with robots now selling us cars,
11:23building them, and occasionally throwing a tantrum mid-test, how long before one replaces you at work?
11:29Drop your thoughts in the comments, hit like if this made you rethink a few things, and subscribe for more.
11:34Thanks for watching, and I'll catch you in the next one.

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