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  • 5/29/2025
In a shocking incident, an AI-powered robot malfunctioned during a live demonstration and unexpectedly attacked engineers on siteβ€”captured on camera! 😱⚑ This alarming event raises urgent questions about robot safety, AI control systems, and the risks of autonomous machines. Experts are calling for stricter regulations and safety protocols as AI and robotics continue to advance rapidly. πŸ›‘οΈπŸ€–

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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 underneath,
02:06hands on tablets, reading out servo IDs. Suddenly, every joint spiked. The bot windmilled its arms,
02:12kicked its feet, yanked the suspension line sideways, and slid its welded stand across polished concrete.
02:18The desktop PC smashed to the floor, a bucket of fasteners scattered, and both engineers scrambled
02:25out 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
02:47downstairs, 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 protoclone 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 of
03:36Shanghai, Cherry Automotive is leaning into the opposite mood, charm. The company, run out of
03:43municipal wuhu 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 a
03:57robotics outfit called AI MOGA in June 2024 and demoed Mornene at last year's Shanghai Auto Show. This week, the robot
04:05reappeared on stage behind Cherry International president Zhang Guibing in a lineup of identical units. Zhang told dealers the
04:13market for humanoids has more potential than vehicles and declared AI MOGA is the real future for the Cherry company. The price, roughly the
04:22same as 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 greeting
04:38shoppers in a Malaysian dealership, dispensing bottled water with carbon fiber fingers and answering trim package
04:44questions in a pleasantly synthetic Alto. The shades aren't a fashion gag. They hide a surround view camera array that
04:52stitches 360 degrees vision and every fingertip carries capacitive pads that can feel when a
04:58customer taps a brochure. A social media clip of Mornene's junk in the trunk dance routine at the
05:04Woohoo launch drew a comment section nearly as long as the robot's spec sheet. One top-rated reply wondered
05:11whether the corporate dress code needed updating for plastic blondes. If Cherry is selling vibes, Iggy GmbH is
05:18selling spreadsheet math. The Cologne-based motion plastics company spent 15 years harvesting tribology
05:24data for low friction polymers. Now it's packaging those parts into a full humanoid called Iggy Rob that
05:32undercuts almost every western competitor. Headline number 47,999 euros, roughly 54,500 dollars at today's rate,
05:43which is a third the price of Agility's Digit and half the rumored price of Tesla's Optimus. Iggy stands
05:491.7 meters tall but it doesn't walk. The torso bolts onto Iggy's Rebel Move Autonomous Mobile Base,
05:57a wheeled platform with a three-point bearing that can carry 50 kilograms of its own mass plus 100 kilograms
06:03of payloads. Two Rebel Cobot arms sprout from the shoulders, each sporting a 6-axis hymonic gearbox stack,
06:11and Iggy's Bionic hands clamp payloads with polymer gears that never need grease. Navigation comes from
06:19a roof-mount LiDAR and paired 3D cameras at eye level. Runtime is 8 hours on a single lithium pack. The
06:26whole bundle talks ROS2 is CE certified for Europe and slots into VDA 5050 fleet management dashboards
06:35that German factories already use for tuggers and pallet movers. Ingus's sales pitch is brutally
06:41practical. They'll ship an evaluation unit, let your team test it in a live cell, maybe at a reception
06:48desk, maybe 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. Alright, 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 just
07:19the 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 robot stands 0.8
07:41meters tall, call it a toddler, with 22 cycloid gearboxes. You can print on any home FDM machine that
07:48handles a 200 x 200 x 200 mm envelope. Hardware bill in the US comes to $4,312, sourced from Shenzhen,
07:59and it's $3,236. The costliest line items are 10 high-torque 6512 actuators at $188 each,
08:10and 12 lighter 5010s at $136 each. Control is a $120 Intel N95 mini PC pushing four 1-megabit CAN 2.0 buses
08:23at 250 Hz. Power is a 6-cell 4000 MAH LiPo giving 30 minutes of runtime. On paper, that looks anemic, but
08:34Berkeley's party trick is software. They trained a walking policy entirely in simulation and watched
08:41it transfer zero-shot to real hardware. The release video shows the bot stepping off a lab bench,
08:48shrugging its shoulders, writing its initials with a felt tip, stacking foam cubes, and spinning a
08:54scrambled Rubik's Cube solving will take firmware V2.0. The paper's appendix introduces a tongue-in-cheek
09:02performance per dollar metric. Peak joint torque divided by height, normalized by price. By that
09:08measure, the $5,000 platform outranks several six-figure commercial machines. Reddit's verdict
09:14is split. Half the commenters call it the Raspberry Pi moment for legged robots. The rest say the demo
09:20looks like toys from 2013 and warn that 3D printing gear teeth in PLA is a reliability nightmare. Either way,
09:28the Repos Issues tab already hosts pull requests for longer pipe batteries and alternative gear ratios,
09:35which was exactly the point. Barrickleam wants hundreds of garage tinkerers pushing the design
09:41forward without waiting for corporate roadmaps. If Berkeley is pushing from the bottom and Igu's from
09:47the middle, Hyundai 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 a new
10:00factory 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 deploys
10:14Boston Dynamics' four-legged spot for inspection rounds. Bringing in two-legged Atlas units is a bigger
10:21leap. The goal is 300,000 electric and hybrid vehicles per year, feeding a plan to push U.S.
10:28production capacity from 700,000 cars this year to 1.2 million by the end of the decade. Hyundai hasn't
10:36said how many Atlases it's buying, but supply chain whispers point to tens of thousands of robots across
10:42multiple categories. Atlas's appeal is clear β€” it can step over conveyor tracks, climb stairs,
10:49and thread-through weld booths designed for humans β€” which means Hyundai can retool software faster
10:54than it could re-pour concrete. Labor unions are publicly worried about job displacement,
10:59yet management argues that uptime and safety statistics will speak for themselves once the
11:04bots clock in. The welding cell of 2026 might look like a human tech with a tablet, three Atlas units
11:11hauling stamped panels, and a dozen fixed ABB wrists performing spot welds β€” a species mashup the
11:18industry has never seen at scale. So, with robots now selling us cars, building them, and occasionally
11:24throwing a tantrum mid-test, how long before one replaces you at work? Drop your thoughts in the
11:30comments, hit like if this made you rethink a few things, and subscribe for more. Thanks for
11:35watching, and I'll catch you in the next one.

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