Futurology

The new US President has used his first 24 hours to pull all US government support for the green energy transition. He wants to ban any new wind energy projects and withdraw support for electric cars. His new energy policy refused to even mention solar panels, wind turbines, or battery storage - the world's fastest-growing energy sources. Meanwhile, he wants to pour money into dying and declining industries - like gasoline-powered cars and expanding oil drilling.

China was the global leader in 21st-century energy before, but its future global dominance is now assured. There will be trillions of dollars to be made supplying the planet with green energy infrastructure in the coming decades. Decarbonizing the planet, and electrifying the global south with renewables will be the largest industrial project in human history.

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It's a compliment to Unitree that when I first looked at this video with the latest updates to the G1 Bionic humanoid robot, I wondered if it was rendered and not real life. But it is real, this is what they are capable of, and the base model is only $16,000.

There are many humanoid robots in development, but the Unitree G1 Bionic is interesting because of its very cheap price point. Open source robotic development AI is rapidly advancing the capability of robots. Meanwhile, with chat GPT type AI on board we will easily be able to talk to them.

How far away are we from a world where you can purchase a humanoid robot that will be capable of doing most types of unskilled work with little training? It can't be very many years away now when you look at this.