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There's a YouTuber in China building a 66,000 pound humanoid robot that copies his body movements in real time. His name is Fan Zhisan, a creator in Chengdu with a physics and chemistry background who spent years building things straight out of anime, flying sword swarms, a hoverboard made of blade, and a few months ago, a robot arm heavier than a pickup truck that crushed a car on camera. But his new project is on a completely different scale. He named the mech Yeager after the giant robots in Pacific Rim. It doesn't think for itself. Fan wears a motion capture suit and the robot mirrors his body in real time, scaling every small human movement into massive mechanical force. He moves his arm, 66,000 pounds moves with him. Now think about what's actually happening here. Building machines like this used to take a defense budget and a government contract. Fan is funding it with a YouTube channel which makes his audience the investor. And Unitree just started selling a rideable mech for $650,000. So giant robots are quietly becoming a consumer category. One of the most interesting engineering lab in the world right now is a YouTube channel in Chengdu.

There's a YouTuber in China building a 66,000 pound humanoid robot that copies his body movements in real time. His name is Fan Zhisan, a creator in Chengdu wi…