The first (and last) humanoid robot made in ‘Russia’
"Aidol" was intended to mark Russia's entry into the global humanoid machine race.
The Aidol website boasts more performance than it demonstrated on stage. The robot is said to be able to work autonomously for up to six hours, reproduce 12 basic emotions and “hundreds of micro-expressions,” and walk at a speed of 6 km/h. For maximum usefulness, it is said to be able to operate both offline and online, as well as integrate with third-party tools.
Well, in reality, everything is different. This humanoid robot can’t even be called that, it’s some kind of misunderstanding, it can’t express emotions, perform tasks or even walk slowly. What if you asked it to bring you a glass of water? it wouldn’t even go three meters without spilling everything on the ground. I’m just dying of laughter from this lame presentation, watch and see for yourself.
A robot’s grand launch at a technology conference in Moscow didn’t go as planned. It emerged from backstage, walked about five meters, and then crashed headfirst into the stage. Two people jumped to grab the robot and dragged it off the stage, covering it with a black curtain.
It became a real sensation, many cannot believe such a push, a country that surpasses all technologies, only not forward, but backward, isn’t that right?
In one of the post, the guy argued that trying and failing is better than doing nothing. “Its next version will be better!”. Hopefully he is joking 😂.
The company also offers a desktop version, which isn’t a chatbot, but rather a torso and head that literally sits on your desk and talks to you. It can turn its head and remembers the last thing you talked about. Aidol boasts that the desktop format “allows the robot to be quickly installed in any space and easily repositioned as needed.”
The US-made humanoid robots are also far from perfect. Figure AI says its prototype can fold your clothes and wash the dishes, which is a big step forward, but it’s far from complete. 1X Technologies’ Neo robot also promises to do your housework, but it costs $20,000, and if it can’t do the job, a 1X employee can take control of it remotely and peek into your home.
China, Japan, or South Korea have long been developing the latest robotics technologies, so you can’t compare their humanoids to Russian ones, because it would be simply disrespectful to even talk about it.
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