This Is the First Real Humanoid Robot That Runs and Thinks Faster Than Humans (Not CGI)

5 Apr 2025 · 9 min
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A YouTube video (LARRUZ, Apr 5, 2025) reviews recent humanoid-robot advances, contrasting Westwood Robotics' Themis V — a ~1.60 m, second-generation humanoid with ~40 degrees of freedom, up to 10 km/h top speed, ~200 TOPS onboard compute, and high-rate orientation sensing (≈1000 Hz) — with 1x's consumer-focused Neo, demonstrated autonomously loading a dishwasher, picking up leaves, and arranging cushions. The video emphasizes real-world robustness (uneven terrain, household chaos), on-board ML and reinforcement-learning for locomotion, and data-driven autonomy as routes toward general-purpose domestic robots.

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About 1.60 meters.

Approximately 40 degrees of freedom; arms have 6 DOF each and the hands add about 7 extra DOF.

Up to 10 kilometers per hour (≈6.2 miles per hour).

About 200 TOPS (tera operations per second).

A Microstrain orientation sensor (described in the transcript) providing updates up to about 1,000 times per second.

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