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This is the eye-watering moment a G1 robot from Chinese firm Unitree kicks an engineer in the groin. You can’t blame the robot – it was simply programmed to follow the engineer’s movements, which it did to perfection. It even copied him as he doubled up in agony. Watch at www.snipca.com/57571.

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