China says humanoid robots are new engine of growth, pushes for mass production by 2025 and world leadership by 2027

Not gonna lie. It's gonna be terrifying having a squad of these with machine guns hunting us all down when they run amuck.

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

Haven’t we seen enough sci-fi movies to know that having creepy humanoid robots hanging around is a bad idea. They should all look like Bender from Futurama or Marvin the paranoid Android

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.

Why do they have dildos on their heads? Never mind. I figured it out.

Look, I don't wanna be that guy but the age of man is almost over! If we continue this path, I think skynet or Faro (from horizon zero dawn) is within the possibilities!

Just putting out there, just in case these Lemmy servers are found 10.000 years from now, they are gonna say: yeah this one was right!

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