only if you live in upper north america; western europe; or australia. lol

That's damn true. All of SE Asia is basically a neon (*actually LED) vortex

"In German, oder English

I know how to count down,

Und I'm learning Chinese,

Says Wernher Von Braun"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

Let's see how well they can run in the forest.

Propaganda of what ? The robots will collect human organs so they can finally solve the trolley problem. Needs many MANY repetition of the experiment. They just happened to understand only Mandarin because they were created in China.

Very nice

Also very scary as this is just the next step after what Boston dynamics has already shown. You can bet your ass that military leaders are jerking off over these things

Granted, their battery life will still be Abysmal but that too is being resolved over time.

I'm not afraid of self aware terminators. I'm afraid of sad dictators with tiny penis syndrome getting access to shit like this in, say, a decade from now.

i wish i could move there

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/chinas-humanoid-robots-ready-lunar-new-year-showtime-2026-02-16/

I think most of this is choreographed. Autonomous killing machines are probably a few weeks away

Sigh... I mean... I tried. And while there is much to be said for it, there is a lot to be said against it too. It's kind of a win some lose some deal. Depends on where you live. If I was in the USA I'd fuck right off to basically anywhere, and SE Asia wouldn't be a bad bet. Thing is, they don't just accept people willy nilly. Unless you want to endure a permanent border hopping enema, you need a work visa, student visa, or retirement visa, and those all come with their own hurdles.

Good luck tho, I can def vibe with the sentiment.

Not as clumsy or random as an imperial trooper US Marine, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

Don't worry, one look at you and they'll know you're not worth harvesting.

Wrong country

Truly impressive. Either I have been alive for a long time or the rate of progress is accelerating. I thought we were decades away from this.

Does anyone actually want this? Like it's kind of interesting but is it actually something anyone wants?

What do you mean, as entertainment? Most people currently seem entertained by these.

But this is just getting started.

As helpful androids? Sure, can it one day clean my house and do my shopping? I'd buy one (though I suppose they would have some awful privacy problems).

As military robots? Can they one day operate a tank? Carry and fire weapons? I can think of a few people that want that.

They’ll release a gamer version of these robots with RGB don’t worry.

I imagine a display such as this drives Elon mad with the dismal human-dancing-in-a-costume display he put on for his completing product. If true, I want this.

Their kicks were powered by lightning!

Can i have it arrive before my next rent payment?

It's a demonstration of capability, not utility.

Well there you go... I guess I am in the minority on this. I don't want these things anywhere near me or my family.

But yes I can imagine cops loving the idea of these things crushing protestors throats in the street.

Broken link

have you seen the little boxing matches they set up with these? they're so silly

No they won't

Yes I can see some really altruistic uses for these but they’re outweighed by the malicious ones.

Like RING cameras and the other brands, would be super cool to help locate lost children and elderly but bad people are going to use them for fascism.

They don't need your trashed organs, they will kick you so much that all of them explode

Yeah, don't compare them to the ideal in your head. Compare them to the best their competitors have put out there.

You know, like the assholes here in the US that would just have humans remote control them from the next room to get worse results. And yeah of course China can lie and fake shit too, but I think this would probably be just as impressive if they were all mimicking the movements of a mocap-suited athlete off stage.

Yeah I treated all of the stated limitations of MIT robotics projects for the next 25 years as universal & wasn't aware of the progress in manufacturing + logistics until say 2019

China produced more billionaires than the US this last year. Clearly things are not what they appear anymore.

Also, the West has been completely fascist for a very long time thus the system is supposed give all the resources to the wealthy. Democracy and China's communism are just window dressings for capitalists.

Now that they're successful you want to claim its capitalism? Nope. Its socialism, always has been.

The protest in Tiananmen Square were anti-western capitalist reforms. Sad to know you can't be bothered with actual history.

There was never socialism or communism. It was a dictatorship that turned fascist.

You want proof? Billionaires buddy.

I absolutely want to see robots automating hard manual labor. I also want to see affordable personal robots that can take care of all my chores so I can enjoy doing things I'm actually interested in.

libs basically have all the intellectual capacity of a parrot, proudly regurgitating a handful of lines they memorized

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9igvUZcBXhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve9USu7zpLU

What if you don't have nuts! Haha gotem! Check mate atheists!

I'd think autonomous killing machines wouldn't have a humanoid shape, as it would be optimized for efficient lethality and not things like grasping external tools and all-terrain movement that is calorically efficient and biomechanically sustainable.

This concept short film came out in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

I can see them having to fill multipurpose roles. Patrolling Guard, escort, checkpoint guards, tunnel rat, climb, then the straight out killing machine. No different than the combat teams we have today. APC, tank, specialty teams (motor),

If it came to fighting them humans would resort to tactics to defeat them or take away their advantage. Tunnels and ladders would be simplest examples.