{"id":13954,"date":"2025-07-23T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13954"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:06:48","slug":"they-arent-going-to-need-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/23\/they-arent-going-to-need-us\/","title":{"rendered":"They Aren&#8217;t Going To Need Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/video-robot-changing-its-own-battery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Futurism<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WILD VIDEO SHOWS ROBOT CHANGING ITS OWN BATTERY<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/authors\/victor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VICTOR TANGERMANN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mHP1WGlw5Wk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As we continue on our path towards a\u00a0potential 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese company UBTECH\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mHP1WGlw5Wk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently showed off<\/a>\u00a0its bipedal Walker S2 robot contorting its arms to hot swap one of its battery packs \u2014 a &#8220;world&#8217;s first,&#8221;\u00a0seemingly\u00a0\u2014 which means the 95-pound automaton could technically work 24 hours a day, an integral part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/cars\/technology\/2025\/07\/22\/china-dark-factories-auto-industry-what-to-know\/85307400007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fully automated &#8220;dark factories<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0that never need to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video footage shows the robot walking up to a rack of swappable batteries. After unnaturally flipping its arms around, the automaton&nbsp;replaces one of its two battery packs in its back before going on its merry way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/video-robot-changing-its-own-battery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Futurism<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Futurism WILD VIDEO SHOWS ROBOT CHANGING ITS OWN BATTERY by VICTOR TANGERMANN As we continue on our path towards a\u00a0potential 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\u00a0recently showed off\u00a0its bipedal Walker S2 robot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}