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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/18/china-dancing-humanoid-robots-festival-show

But Stieler also noted: “Stage performance does not equate to industrial robustness, yet.” He said what the robots did was the result of being trained for a routine “hundreds or thousands of times – you could not just tell them to change direction or do something completely different”.

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

the display should be viewed through a lens of state propaganda

Lmao. Do they say this about any expos in the West?

[–] huf@hexbear.net 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

no no no, that's advertising and it's different morshupls

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think I get it now. Capitalism is when advertising and thus, not political. Communism is when state propaganda and is thus political. That makes sense izutsumi-idea

[–] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

yep, only the government can be political, nothing else.

[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

Their propaganda-bots

Our popcorn-dropping bots

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Of course not! As we all learned from liberals, nuance is when you say you dislike both sides equally but you still stan for one over the other.