WILD VIDEO SHOWS ROBOT CHANGING ITS OWN BATTERY
As we continue on our path towards a potential future filled with tireless humanoid robots staffing factory floors, companies are looking to solve a major pain point of the tech: a limited battery life.
Chinese company UBTECH recently showed off its bipedal Walker S2 robot contorting its arms to hot swap one of its battery packs — a “world’s first,” seemingly — which means the 95-pound automaton could technically work 24 hours a day, an integral part of fully automated “dark factories” that never need to keep the lights on.
Video footage shows the robot walking up to a rack of swappable batteries. After unnaturally flipping its arms around, the automaton replaces one of its two battery packs in its back before going on its merry way.