It was foolish of Western countries to outsource their industrial bases to where wages were cheaper. That said, those jobs are going to disappear due to robots/AI, even in China & we'll be moving on to a different type of economic system anyway, whether we like it or not.
Before that happens, there are benefits to this world of China-dominated manufacturing, too. We can see it most clearly in renewables & EVs, but I think it will happen with robotics as well.
China will make humanoid robots cheap. I'm sure there'll be expensive luxury models, too. But like all other electronics, the vast majority will be cheaper 'almost as good' models. How cheap? China can already make them for $5,000 or so. I'd guess in the 2030s, a few cheaper humanoid robots will be the price of the cheaper car models.
So, simultaneously with robots making human workers obsolete, they will also be giving us all our own personal workers, too.
China dominates the humanoid robot market, capturing more than 90% of global sales. That's good news for the future. It means humanoid robots will be cheap, plentiful, widely owned across the globe, and their economic benefits widely dispersed.
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I have very strong doubts that humanoid robots are anything but a bubble. Or can anyone point me at an example of a humanoid robot doing a job that was done by a human before and doing it even remotely at the same level?
I‘m not saying automation isnt going to replace ever larger parts of the human workforce, but the idea that humanoid robots will be a meaningful part just seems ridiculous to me.
Bring it on! The USA has squandered their advantages, and fallen down. I don’t really want a super strong China either, but at least they are not interested in imperialism and military adventures. They’ll take Taiwan at some point, why would us westerners really care?
Nah it’s not “good news”, it’s focking stupid is what it is. Hope I don’t have to see them in the streets
China’s humanoid robots are about as fake as you can get, they can’t even get past stairs.
go watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMa0jjTEb6k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMa0jjTEb6k) for a better idea of where the world is really at right now.
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Wait, I think I’ve seen this movie. Didn’t Will Smith end up saving us from captivity?
China requiring them to install a backdoor to allow them to spy or takeover control would be a major concern.
“we’ll be moving on to a different type of economic system anyway, whether we like it or not. ”
Yeap, one where the vast majority of the population dies off slowly from drugs, eating super unhealthy and massivelyaaddictive food and rotting away while watching the next seasons of whatever addictive TV shows are made… by AI that are generated to YOUR specific tastes ON demand and made to be highly addictive.
But, we’ll not own anything and be happier than we ever have been before.
Never mind that this means that there will be next to no real protests and for SURE no real social uprising to stop what’s happening… Which by the time people really start uprising it will be to late because of the mass surveillance and measures put in place to stop uprising before we even think about it.
Your naivety is so ridiculous, Shahlar’s student, that it’s simply not funny anymore.