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[Video] China showcases humanoid robot kung-fu performance at Chinese Lunar New Year show
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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Very nice
Also very scary as this is just the next step after what Boston dynamics has already shown. You can bet your ass that military leaders are jerking off over these things
Granted, their battery life will still be Abysmal but that too is being resolved over time.
I'm not afraid of self aware terminators. I'm afraid of sad dictators with tiny penis syndrome getting access to shit like this in, say, a decade from now.
I think most of this is choreographed. Autonomous killing machines are probably a few weeks away
I'd think autonomous killing machines wouldn't have a humanoid shape, as it would be optimized for efficient lethality and not things like grasping external tools and all-terrain movement that is calorically efficient and biomechanically sustainable.
This concept short film came out in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
I can see them having to fill multipurpose roles. Patrolling Guard, escort, checkpoint guards, tunnel rat, climb, then the straight out killing machine. No different than the combat teams we have today. APC, tank, specialty teams (motor),
If it came to fighting them humans would resort to tactics to defeat them or take away their advantage. Tunnels and ladders would be simplest examples.
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Truly impressive. Either I have been alive for a long time or the rate of progress is accelerating. I thought we were decades away from this.
Yeah I treated all of the stated limitations of MIT robotics projects for the next 25 years as universal & wasn't aware of the progress in manufacturing + logistics until say 2019
And NOW you can honetly say that, yes, everybody was indeed kung fu fighting.
Meanwhile teslabots can't even pour a drink
The first ever teslabot demonstration was an actual human in a costume, pretending to be a robot...
China out here with scripted robots that while not super useful can show off the limits of our technology in impressive ways.
America. Back to slavery but with a metal exterior
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That's extremely impressive. As soon as these can do this stuff on random surfaces and with spatial awareness then we are probably past the event horizon for some significant, scary and futuristic shit.
We really do live in the cyber punk dystopia predicted. It's just way less neon lights.
only if you live in upper north america; western europe; or australia. lol
That's damn true. All of SE Asia is basically a neon (*actually LED) vortex
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Mechatronics engineers and scifi nerds from the 90s would salivate over what's on offer in robotics today.
Whoa what the hell, that's insane!
Now that's what i call a flex of your technological power between tradition and modernity. Fantastic performance.
Random thought, I know it's still better to not have wars at all, but future wars would be nicer and more fair if losing meant receiving a knock-out kick in yo nuts from a martial art master robot instead of being killed by random boring drones.
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Once receiving the signal Chinese household robots sold to the west gonna do project atomic heart, by kicking you in the nuts.
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Looks nice. Not excited to be fighting to the death on some random hill surrounded by a thousand of these.
Don't worry, you're much more likely to be instantly annihilated by a tiny suicide drone.
Can i have it arrive before my next rent payment?
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