Chinese AI robotics tech outpaces U.S., rest of world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/09/china-robotics-humanoid-technology-advances/
Chinese AI robotics tech outpaces U.S., rest of world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/09/china-robotics-humanoid-technology-advances/
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Robot dogs. Humanoid helpers. Entirely automated dark factories without human workers. These might seem straight out of a sci-fi novel, but they are arriving full force in China as we speak. After years of patient investment, China is on the cusp of a robotics revolution.
But Facebook is rolling out sexy stepmom chatbots and AI’s best use case is therapy. So check mate China!
I guess the Chips Act didn’t slow them down. Though they did have robot dogs during Covid.
They are likely advancing faster because of their use of open source. Companies and researcher teams can spend more time collaborating and making advancements while Zuckeberg, Musk, Altman, and the Anthropic team all have to reinvent the wheel while planning their eventual backstabs to dominate the industry.
No one gives a crap about robots when civil rights issues are stake, genocides, intercontinental wars, democratic uprisings all over the place. Put this bs elsewhere. This isn’t futurology. This isn’t human interest. This is selling more useless shit and claiming because it’s technology it’s the future we deserve.
Of course it does, we outsourced all of our factories there. We pretended that we could still design it all even though we were thousands of miles away from the heart of innovation and modification. Now our entire production and technological ecosystem is breaking down.
By what metric? Do they have a humanoid robot rivalling Boston Robotic’s work? If they do, I haven’t seen any demonstration of it.
Oh please! Hopefully they’ll put that automation to work cleaning their black sky’s from all the coal. But no, more electronics, more coal.
China is a country of engineers. They are the builders of the 21st century.