China says humanoid robots are new engine of growth, pushes for mass production by 2025 and world leadership by 2027 (www.scmp.com)
from loxo@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 2023 20:03
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TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee on 05 Nov 2023 20:24 next collapse

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 on 05 Nov 2023 20:57 next collapse

And who would supply them during their killing spree?

loxo@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 2023 21:05 collapse

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 on 05 Nov 2023 22:23 next collapse

Raytheon would be on that shit so fast lol

TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 2023 23:38 collapse

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 on 06 Nov 2023 00:57 collapse

Halliburton

Pons_Aelius@kbin.social on 06 Nov 2023 05:15 next collapse

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

SmokumJoe@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 2023 15:25 next collapse

James Cameron is losing his shit

dan1101@lemm.ee on 06 Nov 2023 16:54 collapse

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

Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 2023 22:02 next collapse

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 on 06 Nov 2023 17:15 collapse

Science fiction.

You watch too many movies.

Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 2023 22:08 next collapse

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!

Pons_Aelius@kbin.social on 05 Nov 2023 23:12 next collapse

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 on 05 Nov 2023 23:54 next collapse

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

curiousaur@reddthat.com on 06 Nov 2023 01:08 collapse

Schezwan Green is people.

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 2023 00:43 next collapse

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

aluminiumsandworm@kbin.social on 06 Nov 2023 07:14 next collapse

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 on 06 Nov 2023 16:55 next collapse

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

[deleted] on 06 Nov 2023 21:36 next collapse
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Heresy_generator@kbin.social on 06 Nov 2023 21:40 collapse

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