Japan Weighs AI-Powered Humanoid Robots for Military Surveillance and Logistics
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-25
Per emmanuelvivier's weekly roundup: Japan is considering AI-doped humanoid robots for its military — for base surveillance and logistics, with no combat use — in response to personnel shortages. The same post notes Alibaba launched AgentCore, an agentic cloud platform for building, governing and securing enterprise agents, with a context engine and a security center.
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