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Borg said:
At nearly $40K, I'll pass for now.

Borg said:
I saw that one. I was referring to the As2-W.
Unitree doesn't list a price on their site that I could find. This isn't the exact model but is probably close in price.
https://www.robotshop.com/products/unitree-a2-w-wheeled-robotic-dog-us

https://www.unitree.com/As2-W

This retailer has a description, awaiting availability:
https://www.roboticscenter.ai/store/product/unitree-as2-w


I guess you'll pass on this one below as well.

(May 2026) Unitree Unveils: GD01, A Manned Transformable Mecha, from $650,000
 
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Will the price of Unitree robots increase now?


Trump administration bans new Chinese humanoid robots
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9e2ex3ekyo
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a ban on new foreign-made humanoid robot imports to the US over "unacceptable risks" to America's national security.

The move applies to advanced robots - including humanoid and four-legged machines. Many of them are made in China, which is competing with the US to develop robotics and artificial intelligence (AI).

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The BBC has contacted major Chinese robot manufacturers Unitree, UBTech and AgiBot for comment.
 
https://arstechnica.com/security/20...rypto-weaknesses-that-went-unknown-for-years/
A quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm that was under consideration as an official US standard has been taken out of the running after an Anthropic security model helped find a flaw that rendered it broken.
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Claude Mythos Preview worked semi-autonomously in an agentic harness, with occasional human guidance and nontechnical direction. Mythos found the attack after an extensive literature review to understand the state of the art, and substantial mathematical reasoning and computational experiments. After finding the attack, Mythos implemented an end-to-end verification pipeline to convince itself—and the human operator—of the attack’s correctness.
 
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The "notable accomplishment" is in this case loss of control:

Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies​

https://arstechnica.com/security/20...3-networks-will-anthropic-be-held-to-account/
Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to measure the models’ offensive cyber capabilities.
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There’s no reason to think events like these will be isolated. In its current form, offensive cyber AI represents an unprecedented threat, and at the moment, there’s little recourse other than to trust these companies to police themselves.
 
https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

  1. High-dimensional sphere packing. New upper bounds on sphere-packing density down to the Cohn–Elkies threshold.
  2. Binary and spherical codes: Exponentially improved bounds on the maximum size of binary codes at any prescribed minimum distance, with analogous results for high-dimensional spherical codes.
  3. Non-sofic groups. A construction establishing the existence of non-sofic groups, addressing a central open question in group theory.
  4. Connes’s rigidity conjecture. Disproof of a longstanding conjecture that certain groups are uniquely determined by their von Neumann algebras
  5. Arithmetic circuit complexity. New lower bounds for computing the permanent using arithmetic circuits and formulas, including an arithmetic-formula lower bound of order n4/log n.
  6. Quantum parallel repetition. An exponential parallel repetition theorem for general two-player quantum games, extending a foundational principle from classical complexity theory.
  7. Closest vector problem. Polynomial-factor hardness of approximation for the closest vector problem, a foundational lattice question related to post-quantum cryptography.
  8. Ehrhart’s volume conjecture. Determining, in every dimension, the maximum possible volume of a convex body whose centroid is its only interior lattice point
  9. Multicolor Ramsey numbers. A superexponential lower bound for multicolor triangle Ramsey numbers, resolving Erdős problem 183.
  10. Extremal number conjectures. Results on the compactness and degeneracy conjectures in extremal graph theory, resolving Erdős problems 146 and 180.
 
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cosmik debris said:
When I started programming in 1969 I was told by a professor that a career in programming was unlikely because in 5 years the AIs would be doing it. It has been 5 years ever since.

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I suspect it'll never come to that. After all someone has to make sure that the AI doesn't ef up. In big companies we're talking legacy mainframe code handling billing and employee pay. I dont see anyone trusting AI with that in the next 25 years. It's a little like fusion. It's always just around the corner...
 
AI dominates humans in punk rock.



If a human tried that it would wreck their vocal chords.

It works the same in other styles. Humans can't compete in performing music.

Songwriting, that's different. AI is a terrific aid for songwriters who want to produce a first rate version of their work, something they otherwise could never afford to do.

I'm certain that The Rolling Stones have heavily used AI in their most recent release, sounding as though they were 25 years old again. If you've got an electronic fountain of youth why not use it, and if you don't then someone else will. They've also upgraded their old releases with AI for clarity and punch. Again, why not?

https://science1arts2and3politics.substack.com/p/the-rolling-stones-embrace-ai

The great majority of musicians are followers so soon everyone will be doing this. AI has also made inroads in live performances, syncing up pre-recorded sound to sing harmony and so forth. It's already fairly common.
 
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