A US-China "Robot Olympics" would boost AI sentiment more than wonder drugs, says viral take
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-08-25
A widely-shared take argues that having the US and China compete openly in a "Robot Olympics" would do more to raise public sentiment toward AI than using frontier models to develop new wonder drugs.
The quoted clip shows a humanoid robot at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing attempting to clean and jerk 16 kg (35 lbs): it got the bar overhead before its knees buckled, arms flailed, and the system spammed errors — " thankfully we're still a long way from Terminator."
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