This driverless Chinese mining truck is giant, agile, and shows the industrial future of AI

If you thought that embodied AI was all about humanoids and robotic good boys, allow me to introduce you to the Shuanglin K7. Equipped with a Level 4 driving brain that allows it to operate with no human intervention, this massive robot on four wheels can literally move on a dime, rotating 360 degrees on its own vertical axis and moving sideways like a crab, operating 24/7. According to its developers—Shuanglin Group and Tsinghua University—this massive 17.1-foot-tall robo-truck is the first...