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

you could not just tell them to change direction or do something completely different.

Yep, only robots that are like that, sorry, only Chinese robots are like that, as we all know, no human has ever needed to practice and rehearse something before doing it.

I'm surprised they didn't try to push a "child cruelty" claim on that performance, trying to say it was dangerous for the kids to dance with the robots or something. Probably because the actual performance was adorable, and it's hard to blindly hate China that way, seeing cute kids play with robots looks cool as fuck, those kids are living the dream of like, every kid ever.