Many here think that China can't innovate; but, they clearly are doing something we aren't. Now, if I were funding such a thing, I'd be working toward mechanical soldiers that could run through the woods, across rock fields, through gas clouds, and deliver gun fire with pinpoint accuracy or perhaps satchels of explosives ... by the thousands.
Sure enough, you demonstrate that Americans seem to be falling behind in innovation. I do not say this to you in a harsh manner, just to advise that you might have recognized one important potential.
Having been a nerd for all things science fiction even before I was a teenager, I’ve seen more than a few things that at the time WERE fiction end up eventually becoming reality.
The first time I saw the Terminator movie I was pretty sure something similar would be on the horizon some day.
Technology certainly isn’t that advanced yet and we will probably be gone by then but something similar to schwarzenegger’s role in that movie will no doubt become a reality some day.
I mean think about it, a mere 60 years after the Wright brothers took flight we put men on the moon.
So the fact robots are now being built that can do the things they can just doesn’t surprise me.