We should be VERY worried about lots of things, but China's dancing robots aren't really on the list if you ask me.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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Why should I worried about what seemed like novel mocap-type technology when I live in a surveillance state dystopian hellscape where roves of masked racist invaders are ripping my neighbors off the street, and the tech companies here are gleefully enabling and profiting off it?
I mean I’m equally worried about China and their genocide against e.g. the Uyghurs as I am about the western genocide against e.g. Palestinians or the Russian genocide against e.g. Ukrainians. The problem is with the concept of empire, not any implementation of that concept specifically.
I guess worry depends too on how good an empire is at coming into being. You can argue that the Russian special operation is pretty damn ineffective (relative to expectation) And less dangerous than if Putin was marching toward the Atlantic
The West engaged in genocide, polluting the planet, their billionaires driving humanity to despair in their greed. The Guardian: Should we be worried about china’s dancing robots?
It's less a question about their origine, and more the realization that killing robots are here now
Ya can't make me worried about China when I live in America
Cool! No worries at all :) Nice fluid motion on those robots, everything preprogrammed. Look really nice 🤩
Hear hear !
China bad, but...
No worries? I guess???
Now make one with a fire extinguisher and make them battle like that one music video!
I think that it's awesome and congrats to whatever group put that together.
This is an entirely predictable outcome, the only reason that AI robotics have taken so long to catch up to LLMs and image generators is because there isn't an Internet full of thousands of TBs of text and images to train on.
It takes time to develop the training sets for robots and the easiest data to generate would be human generated so humanoid robots are the inevitable outcome of the data required to train these networks.
What a stupid title, lol. Classic "China bad" mentality.
We should be worried if we're in a dance competition with the dancing robots 😂
Seems kinda boring. Watching robots dance is like watching the microwave do its thing.
I don't imagine microwaves chasing me down an alley tho
I didn't use to either - before.. Thank you asshole !
/s sorry ;-P
Writing was on the wall for dancers when Fortnite took thier moves. This is just the last nail in the coffin. It's official : human dancers are obsolete (except childten if in service of making robots cuter and less threatening).
Shiiiiiiiiit... I'm worried about finding the best Eggs Benedict in my new city. It's been 2.5 years and I think I've tried about 10 places. No winners.
How concerned should I be when the documentation for complex devices coming out of China always seems to be so bad that no one except the people who designed them can program them anyway?