We Gave China’s Robots a Job Interview

Three, two, one, go! You're not even going low! Fourteen, twenty-one! Oh my gosh! Whoa! Everybody's seeing the robots dancing and fighting, but can robots actually perform real human tasks? Today we are at Deep Robotics here in Hangzhou, and we are chilling with Dr. O2, a.k.a. Dr. O2, and we are going to see if he can actually get hired for human jobs. You ready? Let's check out. what if the future is happening already but most of us just don't know where to look welcome to global next china edition let's discover what's next sejong university in 2017 to 2026 this robot has come a long way yeah i mean i um that's the university i went to i studied computer science seeing uh the very university honestly i don't know like i never wanted to be an engineer and so glad that there's people who are fantastic engineers who are able to build a robot like that Let's see if the DR-02 can replace the job of a Kung Fu instructor. Master, we're getting ready. Oh, let me get a white belt. Thank you. Look, Doc, in this race for humanity, humans still up right now. So you got to show me something. You know, otherwise, I don't recognize the dominance. Let's do the push-ups. Go. Oh, man, this already hurts for me. Three. Hurry up, David. Eight. You're not even going low. Ten. Fourteen. keep going keep going keep going it's barely 90 seconds oh my gosh listen guys i can't do it the robots might have the edge when it comes to this one i bet you think you're stronger than me huh all those muscles you're pretty lean well yeah i guess technically you're at like zero percent body fat so hey doc we've been laying here for a while you want to get up let's go oh my gosh it's It's 8 o'clock in the morning and I have an important meeting at 10. And I would love to have a fresh cup of coffee. Hey, doctor, can you please make me a cup of coffee? You know what? You went from being one of the engineers at the Liu Xiaolong Six Dragons to making videos about it. Well, I think that China has a ton of great engineers and engineering minds. But this day and age, I think that we need more people telling stories, right? and you know soft skills and some i'm so glad that i'm actually doing it i think that you know a creative mind should do creative stuff yeah that's a good point put everybody in their roles and you know this one is so crazy you couldn't see it outside but it's going through the water it's doing flips this guy's like jumping on top um can you just think of all like the real world applications this is so much more exciting because i'm actually controlling the dog so we'll see the dog is break dancing right now break dancing for sure whoa that's crazy okay watch me play water with my favorite puppy m20 it feels good i love the water well i have a real dog at home but let's see if i will have more fun with my robot pet here m20 let's go faster faster okay well you know i think i think it's a big dog that's why it's not as fast as me but i'm pretty sure we can make it much faster let's go oh my gosh that's a good run just like many girls i grew up want to have a pony and this year is a year of horse and i am a horse myself so i got myself my pet pony bobby and trust me it's stronger than any man you ever date because it will hold your back without any complaint let's go let's go i mean i honestly don't know why people are scared of robots because robots are controlled by human being end of day right like as for now so if you trust people who are controlling the robot in theory you should trust robot itself and you know this is where the engineering minds of chinese come in place where like chinese people are very logical and they're not much scared by like um you know mechanic uh object like robot right especially if you see them already like everywhere in hong kong they're they're like robot police everywhere, controlling the traffic. I think it's just very, you know, natural for people to accept them as part of human daily life. Right, like people in Hangzhou are already trusting this robot to direct them to take a right turn or a left turn. Yeah, exactly. So what's the reason of them not trusting the robot to do all this stuff? Doc, you're not so bad after all, even though you kicked my butt in push-up contest. Listen guys, I was so excited today to come to Hangzhou to Deep Robotics, And I feel like they're more animal-like robots. I see the immediate applicability today, you know, finding people in the wilderness, helping people in hazardous situations in a variety of terrain, putting out fires, patrolling an area. But then when I saw DR02, this is when it was like starting to connect on a different way, right? Right, and would you think that you will hire a doctor for the job that you wanted to do? I would, honestly. I mean, what do you think? Like, how do you compare this to an LLM? I mean, I think I would trust a robot much better than a human, especially for anything that's strenuous or anything that's repetitive, like just watching you in the end while you're doing the pushup, but then obviously doctor could probably outdo by a lot. I think that it would work on almost anything that requires a lot of effort that human perhaps cannot sustainably do after a while. I think we're just a few years away, and I'm telling you, these robots are solving real world problems right now, and it's further along than you think. I think some people are scared of robots, but like I was a little bit scared when I first approached Daryl too, because you know, it is a little bit, you know, it's buff, it's strong and it's taller than me. So it's a little bit intimidating, but after spending more time with the robot today, you know, you can see how helpful it is. Like you definitely felt a lot more comfortable around it. Hey man, as part of the family, as far as I'm concerned, I'm ready to buy one. Sign me up.