“China’s UBTech Robotics has secured a 264 million yuan (US$37 million) contract to deploy industrial-grade humanoid robots across border crossings in Guangxi. The initiative marks one of China’s largest real-world rollouts of humanoid systems in government operations.
The pilot programme will deploy Walker S2 robots at border checkpoints to guide travellers, manage personnel flow, assist with patrol duties, handle logistics tasks, and support commercial services. In addition to immigration-related operations, the robots will also be used at manufacturing sites for steel, copper, and aluminium to conduct inspections.”
darkweetie on
Somewhere in a lab there is a guy who is very proud that he gave a border robot a little walk animation
Fabulous-Assist3901 on
Between this and AI, what employment will there be in the future for so many people? And if no one works who the hell will buy things from these companies.
Reasonable_Fold6492 on
There are so many people here who thinks china won’t have an unemployment cricis like the west because of Ai and I find that absolutely hilarious. They are delusional just like the far right who thinks japan will fix there birth rate problem with Ai and robots.
For people who says since china is a communist country they can for company to improve working conditions this already happened in korea and japan. What happened was despite there being a law the company would preasure there employs to work harder. For examples there is a law where company cant fire women who had birth. The company would let the women have there rest but they dont employ more people. This results in the women coworkers having to all of the work the women did. One month in and the coworkers began to call the women asking for help and apologizing to her. The women who wants a positive relationship with her coworkers is forced to go back to the company despite the law saying they could rest for few more months. I have heard the same story from chinese, Japanese and korean coworkers. If its a big company this won’t happen but if you work in mediums or small sized company this stuff happens regularly and the company will say they arent breaking any laws. Chinese birth rate is now lower than japan. There is not gonna be an Ai communist utopia or a Ai capitalist utopia. Its gonna be a dystopia where workers loose more rights as time goes by for all countries.
LuckyandBrownie on
Humanoid robots are an incredibly stupid design. I can’t take anyone or country serious if they consider using them.
sdric on
If I see “humanoid robot”, I always think “marketing”. There are more efficient shapes for stability, for speed, for durability, etc. The only reason to pick a humanoid shape is to convey a certain perception
Ascarea on
Insane that it’s only $37 million. Really bad movies have cost ten times more.
2023LOS on
Time for Vietnam to invest in a bunch of orange traffic cones to scatter along the border.
CynicalBite on
They must keep the high IQ workers in China because in my 42 years of experience in manufacturing projects, any time I’ve worked with the Chinese it’s been an absolute SHIT SHOW. Zero pride in workmanship. Zero desire for quality. My radar goes straight to “avoid” mode when I can choose. And that goes double for home contractors. I won’t even let them on my property any more.
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“China’s UBTech Robotics has secured a 264 million yuan (US$37 million) contract to deploy industrial-grade humanoid robots across border crossings in Guangxi. The initiative marks one of China’s largest real-world rollouts of humanoid systems in government operations.
The pilot programme will deploy Walker S2 robots at border checkpoints to guide travellers, manage personnel flow, assist with patrol duties, handle logistics tasks, and support commercial services. In addition to immigration-related operations, the robots will also be used at manufacturing sites for steel, copper, and aluminium to conduct inspections.”
Somewhere in a lab there is a guy who is very proud that he gave a border robot a little walk animation
Between this and AI, what employment will there be in the future for so many people? And if no one works who the hell will buy things from these companies.
There are so many people here who thinks china won’t have an unemployment cricis like the west because of Ai and I find that absolutely hilarious. They are delusional just like the far right who thinks japan will fix there birth rate problem with Ai and robots.
For people who says since china is a communist country they can for company to improve working conditions this already happened in korea and japan. What happened was despite there being a law the company would preasure there employs to work harder. For examples there is a law where company cant fire women who had birth. The company would let the women have there rest but they dont employ more people. This results in the women coworkers having to all of the work the women did. One month in and the coworkers began to call the women asking for help and apologizing to her. The women who wants a positive relationship with her coworkers is forced to go back to the company despite the law saying they could rest for few more months. I have heard the same story from chinese, Japanese and korean coworkers. If its a big company this won’t happen but if you work in mediums or small sized company this stuff happens regularly and the company will say they arent breaking any laws. Chinese birth rate is now lower than japan. There is not gonna be an Ai communist utopia or a Ai capitalist utopia. Its gonna be a dystopia where workers loose more rights as time goes by for all countries.
Humanoid robots are an incredibly stupid design. I can’t take anyone or country serious if they consider using them.
If I see “humanoid robot”, I always think “marketing”. There are more efficient shapes for stability, for speed, for durability, etc. The only reason to pick a humanoid shape is to convey a certain perception
Insane that it’s only $37 million. Really bad movies have cost ten times more.
Time for Vietnam to invest in a bunch of orange traffic cones to scatter along the border.
They must keep the high IQ workers in China because in my 42 years of experience in manufacturing projects, any time I’ve worked with the Chinese it’s been an absolute SHIT SHOW. Zero pride in workmanship. Zero desire for quality. My radar goes straight to “avoid” mode when I can choose. And that goes double for home contractors. I won’t even let them on my property any more.