Unitree Develops Production-Ready Mech Suit (opens in new tab)

China's Unitree produces both humanoid robots and dog-bots. Now they've scaled up the former, into something that a driver can climb inside (albeit quite awkwardly). They've just unveiled their GD-01, "the world's first production-ready manned mecha," the company says. It's both drive-able and autonomous (or at least remote-controllable). The demo video is straight-up weird. First off, they're branding it as a "civilian vehicle." Imagine a city full of people commuting like this:Secondly, the...