ROBOTS (this should make us all very worried)

[Harmony]

Posted by Matthew (here)
It's my advice to the world to make light of it while we still can, I didn't mean that to be a criticism, not for a second. AI might still be funny for a little while yet, hopefully....

yes, let us be as humanly wonderful as we can

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Not from Boston Dynamics (maybe we should change the title of this thread) but robotics-related, and all extremely worrying.

Kaiwa Technology in China announced plans for a humanoid "pregnancy robot" with an artificial womb, aiming for a 2026 prototype.





It's supposedly designed to combat an infertility crisis in the country. But babies begotten of a robot? I see a flaw in this plan. Although she may not consciously know it, a pregnant mother shares a psychic bond with the baby she carries in her womb. A symbiosis of energy develops. The incoming soul (of the baby) uses that energy, that impetus, to lay down the pathways of the forming brain to match its own energy. In doing so it creates a network, a neurological architecture onto which to map its soul imprint. Its personality.

Even with in vitro fertilisation, the baby is still carried and delivered by a human mother. The psychic bond still exists. With a robot, there would be none. To my mind, this could result in a baby being born without a soul.

Horrifying.

[Bill Ryan]

Spot, Boston Dynamics' robot 'dog', can now do a septuple backflip.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LMPxtcEgtds

[Bill Ryan]

I think this belongs on this thread. There are now large factories in China where all assembly is done by humanoid robots, and they're called 'Dark Factories' because the robots don't need to be able to 'see'. Therefore no lighting is necessary anywhere.

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...back-terrified

Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified

Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries

Pictured: ZEEKR’s Intelligent Factory in Ningbo, China. The country is now viewed as a leader in advanced robotics

12 October 2025

“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.

After visiting a string of factories, Jim Farley was left astonished by the technical innovations being packed into Chinese cars – from self-driving software to facial recognition.

“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July.

“We are in a global competition with China, and it’s not just EVs. And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.”

The car industry boss is not the only Western executive to have returned shaken following a visit to the Far East.

Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.

“I can take you to factories [in China] now, where you’ll basically be alongside a big conveyor and the machines come out of the floor and begin to assemble parts,” he says.

“And you’re walking alongside this conveyor, and after about 800, 900 metres, a truck drives out. There are no people – everything is robotic.”



Other executives describe vast, “dark factories” where robots do so much of the work alone that there is no need to even leave the lights on for humans.

“We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.

“The process was so heavily automated that there were no workers on the manufacturing side, just a small number who were there to ensure the plant was working.

“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad.”

High-tech transformation

It’s also a far cry from the cheap “Made in China” goods that many Westerners have associated with the “workshop of the world” in the past, underscoring how much cash has been poured into upgrading China’s industrial processes.

Far from being focused on low-quality products, China is now viewed as a leader in rapidly-growing, high-value technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs), batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, drones and advanced robotics.

A big part of that transformation is down to the country’s focus on automation – which has been encouraged by the ruling communist government and heavily supported with state subsidies, grants and local government policies.

Figures recently released by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) show this has led to a dramatic and high-tech transformation of China’s industrial base over the past 10 years.

Between 2014 and 2024, the number of industrial robots deployed in the country rocketed from 189,000 to more than two million.

These can typically include everything from robot arms used for welding, assembly and loading, spider robots used for high-speed “pick and place” movements and overhead gantry robots for precision tasks such as 3D printing.

The overall number of robots added in China last year was 295,000, compared to 27,000 in Germany, 34,000 in the US and just 2,500 in the UK.

And while it would be easy to put this disparity down to population size alone, China also blows its western rivals out of the water when it comes to robot density. It now boasts 567 robots for every 10,000 manufacturing workers, compared to 449 for Germany, 307 for the US and 104 in the UK.

More automation is seen by many as good for productivity, the all-important measure of how much an economy gets out of what it puts in.

Many analysts also note that China’s growing share of worldwide manufacturing gives it increasing leverage over global supply chains – and would make it a formidable opponent in a war.

But alongside Beijing’s stated desire to dominate industries of the future, Rian Whitton, an expert at Bismarck Analysis, says increased automation is also an attempt to mitigate the impact of the country’s ageing population.

“China has quite a notable demographic problem but its manufacturing is, generally, quite labour-intensive,” he says.

“So in a pre-emptive fashion, they want to automate it as much as possible, not because they expect they’ll be able to get higher margins – that is usually the idea in the West – but to compensate for this population decline and to get a competitive advantage.”

As part of its so-called Made in China programme, local authorities have offered large tax breaks that reimburse firms for a fifth of their spending on industrial robots. This is under a policy known as “jiqi huanren” – which translates to “replacing humans with machines”.

[Merkaba360]

Scary and also interesting. This fast pace competition could just push out the need for some safety nets of basic needs UBI or whatever.

I'm not that worried though as I think consciousness expansion accelerates along with it. In other words, as masters have said, everyone is "awake" / "enlightened", but we are just sort of pretending to not be.

People can be a lot more awake or wiser if they choose it or perhaps are scared into it. Fear could be a great motivation alarm clock to get the masses to say, ok the slumber was fun, but time to cut the BS, stop pretending and start awakening. These types of motivations should wake up many more in 2026, 2027,.... than say 1990, given the higher base consciousness on the planet.

If they are pulling ahead in some tech, does the West just start stealing all of their IP and copy their robots and such. lol

If this scares US powers, then how about they start pushing out all that insane black project tech they ae sitting on to compete. We were spending $trillion per year in black projects for decades while China was still quite poor. Competition could perhaps force some of that tech into the public. The military can just choose another Bill Gates front man and pretend the nerd developed it by himself in his basement. lol

FYI, one psychic did say that it will appear that China is winning until I think 2027 ish and then things will shift. Also, thats about the time another is seeing them break apart. So, a rise up of their people could change things a lot.

[rgray222]

A Halloween prank or an appropriate use of a robot?

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

This is the most natural, human walk I've yet seen performed by a robot. So natural, the audience at this demonstration suspected it was a human in a suit.

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The Humanoid Hub
@TheHumanoidHub
XPENG's next-gen IRON robot effectively crossed the uncanny valley, leading many to believe it was a human in a suit.

In a follow-up event to prove it was a robot, He Xiaopeng had its leg skin cut open in front of a live audience. The robot then walked off the stage.

https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1986482482460725755

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
This is the most natural, human walk I've yet seen performed by a robot. So natural, the audience at this demonstration suspected it was a human in a suit.

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The Humanoid Hub
@TheHumanoidHub
XPENG's next-gen IRON robot effectively crossed the uncanny valley, leading many to believe it was a human in a suit.

In a follow-up event to prove it was a robot, He Xiaopeng had its leg skin cut open in front of a live audience. The robot then walked off the stage.

https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1986482482460725755

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That's getting a little too close to this: (the famous scene from Terminator 2, when Arnie cuts the skin off his arm to show his metal endoskeleton)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cq36E_wTgqE

[Vicus]

Why they dint cut "her" privates parts?

That could be a human with a prosthesis part ...

[Helvetic]

Xpeng Iron Humanoid Robot Design Explained

Source: Kevin Wood | Robotics & AI

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hvQP4QIqCnI

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

I've made an appropriate change to the title of this post.

https://x.com/BohuslavskaKate/status...35548478755185
Kate from Kharkiv
@BohuslavskaKate
I can't stop laughing 😆

This is a presentation of Russia’s first AI robot. I think it learned to walk from alcoholics.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
I've made an appropriate change to the title of this post.

I did laugh! (But just 10 years ago, we'd all have been amazed)

[mountain_jim]

This totally reminded me of a scene from I, Robot

(maybe intentionally?)

https://x.com/DavidBCollum/status/19...995674465?s=20

Dave Collum
@DavidBCollum
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Should make you a wee bit nervous...
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NEW 🚨 China begins world's first mass humanoid robot delivery

Shenzhen has reached a big milestone in robotics: UBTECH Robotics has now delivered hundreds of its Walker S2 humanoid robots to real industrial workplaces.