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7:30 AM · Jun 29, 2026 · 1.9K Views
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Users celebrate the Unitree G1 humanoid Pemba summiting Chimborazo because portable edge AI units enabled an impressive high-altitude achievement.
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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer
Most robots you see are trained to walk on pristine concrete floors in air conditioned San Francisco labs with gigabit wifi. That is not the real world. That is a sandbox.
The moment a robot leaves that grid, into a mine, a jungle, or up a mountain, the cloud becomes a luxury it cannot reach. Zero connectivity, massive latency, zero margin for error.
This week a humanoid named Pemba became the first to summit Chimborazo at 6,200 meters, the highest a humanoid has ever gone. It walked autonomously on the moderate terrain and was carried on the technical sections. The climb is the proof. The real story is the infrastructure that makes it repeatable.
Eastworlds, the technical partner to Geologic Dome, is building Starlink fed portable edge units so a humanoid keeps running on cloud inference where there is no wifi and no power. That is the moat, and the whole reason Everest is next. Up there, there is no signal to fall back on.
Solve the infrastructure and you solve the mountain. This is the frontier we track at AlignedNews.
Follow the journey at @pabloberlangab.
Technical partner: @eastworlds_io
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pabs@pabloberlangab
Introducing Pemba.
The first humanoid to climb to 20,000ft.
Everest next. More below.
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FilmLadd@FilmLadd
@Scobleizer What's the robot doing in the top left video?
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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer
@ANSR42 Not entirely sure on the time it took, but I do know they climbed 20,000 feet. Incredible accomplishment!
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Mike LaBarbera@ANSR42
@Scobleizer That's really cool! How long did it take Pemba to get to the summit?
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Tesla_Borg 🗽@Tesla_Borg
@Scobleizer Dang 😳 where is Optimus 😉
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ih8y@DmitriyUngarov
@Scobleizer Infrastructure moat real, respect the climb
😍😍😍
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Lego King@Leg0King
@FilmLadd @Scobleizer looks like he was programmed for fortnite
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yammy1688@yammy1688
@Scobleizer Locomotion should NOT rely on remote inference.
It should be hard coded local model on chip.
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Enith De La Garza@enithdelagarza
@pabloberlangab @eastworlds_io @BYDCompany @dr8_unix @theresidency brillante
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Atrosto@Atrosto
@FilmLadd @Scobleizer Did anyone ask it why it wanted to climb the mountain?
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Mike LaBarbera@ANSR42
@Scobleizer Absolutely!
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Brian Kelly@brianrkelly
@Scobleizer Impressive
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Ben Pielstick@BenPielstick
@Scobleizer Even if all they can do is indoor work, that will still be a ton of work.
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