Yamaha's engineers were so confident in their robot that they publicly challenged a 9-time World Champion to a race. Rossi didn't train for it. He didn't need to. Because Motobot wasn't built to entertain crowds. Yamaha's engineering division spent years and millions building a fully autonomous robot that could lean, brake, and accelerate a stock R1 superbike at 200 km/h with perfect mechanical precision. No adrenaline. No human error. No limits. When the challenge went public — most people assumed the robot would win. But Rossi understood something Yamaha's engineers hadn't fully calculated. Data doesn't have instinct. So when the laps were done and the times were read — the greatest motorcycle racer alive had beaten a machine built specifically to make him obsolete. And Yamaha's engineers had no answer for it.
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Why tho? Who the fuck wants to watch a bot race?
Nobody thought the bot would win....
That’s why God made human
bot racing would be cool. abolish all rules about engines, tires, top speed and whatnot. release them and watch the ultimate mayhem
Robots have no feeling. Racing bikes is all about feeling
No what the robot racing is good no humans dieing only robots are and we can fix them back up
Creativity, imagination, and real vision can never be programmed in any known computer language A.I. Will never think
Bro has no idea what a marketing stunt is 😂
He just trained the bot to beat him
What a waste of time and resources...meanwhile, the world is falling apart, but let's build a robot that rides a motorcycle. Make sense out of it.😂😅😂
the craft is gone if it goes all robotic not craft no skill just good AI
Goat rossi
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god this is like as slop as AI slop gets
It literally looked like someone getting on their bike for the first time and hitting their first corner 😂
No robot will ever be better then a human at riding a motorbike
A robot will never have Instinct and guts
Who else stopped watching MOTO GP because the doctor retired
He isnt called the doctor for fun. . .
The AI bots trying to take all kinds of jobs 😂