China launches world's first robot that can run by itself 24/7 — watch it change its own batteries in unsettling new footage

Live Science ^ | 07/21/2025 | Keumars Afifi-Sabet

[Samurai_Jack]

Not sure I wanna know how kreiger configured that charging port.

[wally_bert]

I will expect a Harbor Freight version someday.

[JBW1949]

Testing...

[AnglePark]

Unsettling? I think it’s pretty cool.

The only thing “unsettling” to me is that China, if we’re not careful, may outpace us in AI, drone and robotics tech.

[Mark]

48-volt lithium battery-—What could EVER go wrong?

[ryderann]

When they catch on fire, can they call the fire department?

[Deaf Smith]

If the robot’s lithium battery catches fire, does it run around like Richard Pryor?

[Larry Lucido]

How about a machine that turns itself off?

[sit-rep]

changing the battery isnt really that big a deal. I do not believe the walking is real though. that walk is too good and even to be real with the level of tech we are at today.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So they built a robot specifically to change its own battery instead of hooking up to a charging station.

What can it do that is actually usefule, besides walk around in circles?

[CapnJack]

Chinese have a lot of very convincing videos these days ...

This next guy needs to get a room.

And some more fakery

[fso301]

And if a drone prepositioned batteries...

[Bobbyvotes]

China export business can not survive without USA market.

[Bobbyvotes]

My lawnmower uses 48 volt lithium batteries. Using for 6 years. No issues at all.

[from occupied ga]

nothing new the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab had a robot that wandered the corridors day and night feeding itself from 110V outlets, It could tell the difference between a real outlet and a photocopy (occasionally stuck to the wall by various humorists) It could tell the difference between safe 110 and other voltages and could adjust its feeding plug to different heights. The was in the mid 60’s. The Applied Physics lab is a large complex with a large main building and many corridors. The thing didn’t bump along the walls but maintained a distance from them.

[Disambiguator]

Some people are waiting for sex robots. My take is, are you out of your mind? It’s a machine, like a blender or something.

[T.B. Yoits]

Some people are waiting for sex robots. My take is, are you out of your mind? It’s a machine, like a blender or something.

...but isn't programmed to kill you like a woman is.

[T.B. Yoits]

[Dahoser]

...but isn't programmed to kill you like a woman is.

That doesn't apply to this particular model.