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Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games (apnews.com)

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[–] modem_down@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

People should be concerned. Robots like these may be deployed against Taiwan in the next few years.

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[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Battery life maybe an issue.

Probably good for an hour

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[–] FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.world 1 point 3 days ago

She might say that would also be an improvement over humans.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 days ago* (1 child)

"Against" Taiwan... Or "for" Taiwan... Probably both since neither empire really gives a shit about the Taiwanese.

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[–] modem_down@thebrainbin.org 1 point 2 days ago

The clankers in the OP are from mainland China, so are ultimately under CCP control.

The CCP has indicated for decades it plans to invade Taiwan (CCP refers to this as “reunification”).

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