Chinese startup UBTECH Robotics just snagged a $37M contract to deploy its Walker S2 humanoid robots at the China-Vietnam border in Fangchenggang, where they’ll guide passenger queues, direct vehicles, patrol corridors, and inspect cargo containers. The deployment follows China’s 2023 directive to build a national humanoid robotics innovation system by 2025.
This will be hilarious until it suddenly isn’t.
I’m sure nothing whatsoever will go wrong.
An interesting question in these deployment is how would one consider an attack from/by these robots. Clearly, destroying one could be an act of war, but of a much lower intensity than killing a human guard. We have yet to establish the “value” of those things.
The deployment follows China’s 2023 directive to build a national humanoid robotics innovation system by 2025.
Oh! So a grand success then! They just made it, but I’m sure the machines are ready and fully capable. Probably, they were just taking their time, putting the finishing touches on, so everything would go perfectly. I’m sure they could have deployed months ago, but since they had the extra time, they used it wisely.
I predict great things!
So that was a documentary by the prophet James Cameron was it?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Cool story
I can’t be the only one that thought you could just set off a EMP near the robots and get by, right??
Do EMP devices that are better than an equivalent explosive exist? Nukes can do some funky ionosphere stuff when detonated in the upper atmosphere, but how would you even generate an EMP on the ground?
that is the only way to general powerful emp in one setting. i dont think currently there is anyway, like in many scifi shows seems to have the same type of generator.
Is Elon’s tesla bot gonna join them?
