This is more about China’s fear of it population crash than it does some movie SF future. They are rightly worried their economy will not survive the loss from a working age population in decline.
China steels itself for labour shortfalls, demographic decline with industrial robots
yeah I mean japan has been pushing this type of thing for decades I think.
Schezwan Green is people.
Not gonna lie. It’s gonna be terrifying having a squad of these with machine guns hunting us all down when they run amuck.
Considering battery life: Hide for an hour or two until they run out of juice.
James Cameron is losing his shit
They will probably be easily defeatable with the right strategies, but that doesn’t mean a lot of people won’t die.
The only reason Elon Musk isn’t the king of comically over-optimistic timelines is because the Chinese government exists.
i think it unlikely that we’re going to have quite the level of disruption from this technology that people seem to be expecting. navigating real-world environments to perform tasks that need a human-shaped body is so far from solved i don’t think we’re likely to see it in our lifetimes. best i can see this doing is providing something like mobile kiosks, and perhaps remote controlled human-shaped robodrones for a few niche types of work
I am in favor of replacing most world leaders with robots.
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