🏴‍☠️ Robots Just Did What?!

This Made Me Do a Double Take

I watched a robot do something my body hasn’t done in 10 years.

Flat on its back, and then bam, it launched into a perfect kip-up.
No warm-up. No hesitation. Just raw movement, like it was born to do it.


That’s when it hit me: we’re not just training machines anymore — they’re starting to move like us to think like us.

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