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Humanoid robots set to begin border patrol duties between China and Vietnam (www.earth.com)
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Chinese startup UBTECH Robotics just snagged a $37M contract to deploy its Walker S2 humanoid robots at the China-Vietnam border in Fangchenggang, where they'll guide passenger queues, direct vehicles, patrol corridors, and inspect cargo containers. The deployment follows China's 2023 directive to build a national humanoid robotics innovation system by 2025.

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[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

An interesting question in these deployment is how would one consider an attack from/by these robots. Clearly, destroying one could be an act of war, but of a much lower intensity than killing a human guard. We have yet to establish the "value" of those things.