China says humanoid robots are new engine of growth, pushes for mass production by 2025 and world leadership by 2027 (www.scmp.com)

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 32 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

And who would supply them during their killing spree?

[-] loxo@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

If there's money to be made, then probably any defense corporation in the US.

If I had to guess, here's a couple: Northrop Grumman Lockheed Martin Raytheon Technologies

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Raytheon would be on that shit so fast lol

[-] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

They tried to recruit me out of college and admittedly the job, pay, and benefits all sounded really cool apart from the whole contribution to the killing people.

Couldn’t quite square that one.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Halliburton

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

Considering battery life: Hide for an hour or two until they run out of juice.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

They will probably be easily defeatable with the right strategies, but that doesn't mean a lot of people won't die.

[-] SmokumJoe@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

James Cameron is losing his shit

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

yeah I mean japan has been pushing this type of thing for decades I think.

[-] curiousaur@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

Schezwan Green is people.

[-] Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

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

[-] stella@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Science fiction.

You watch too many movies.

[-] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

The only reason Elon Musk isn't the king of comically over-optimistic timelines is because the Chinese government exists.

[-] aluminiumsandworm@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

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

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

I am in favor of replacing most world leaders with robots.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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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