Videos from China's humanoid robot games spark fear of rapid progress
HarveenChadha · x · 2026-09-10
The author says watching videos from this year's Chinese humanoid robot games left them terrified: the robots are improving at a striking rate and will only get better. They argue that unlike abstract AI-kills-humans discussions, embodied humanoids are a concrete concern — the armed forces of any country will soon have to face machines like these.
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