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In Two Years, China Plans to Unleash Mass-Produced Humanoid Robots to Replace Human Workers
Liberty Daily ^ | Dec. 8, 2023 | By Ethan Huff

Posted on 12/08/2023 10:38:18 AM PST by Red Badger

By the year 2025, communist China plans to unleash large number of humanoid robots, meaning robots that look and act like people but are just walking computers and circuitry.

In a race with Elon Musk’s Tesla and other Western companies working on similar technologies, China hopes to start mass producing its version of humanoid robots by 2025.

According to banking giant Goldman Sachs, the market for humanoid robots could reach $150 billion per year in just 15 years. Fully operational humanoid robots are expected to be mass produced and working in factories between 2025 and 2028, and later in other jobs by 2030 through 2035.

Tech for Good author Marga Hoek argues that the technology is a good thing for the world, even though it stands to make human workers obsolete. She believes that up to one in every four jobs will be impacted by robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

“My biggest worry is that all humankind spends a lot of time on fearing, instead of accepting and anticipating,” Hoek commented, adding that more research still needs to be done to look at which job roles will still “add value” in a world kept spinning by humanoid robots.

“If we don’t train people, if we don’t anticipate, if we don’t radically change around the school programs, for instance, we’ll be too late,” she added.

(Related: Last year, the tech industry developed AI mind-reading technology to measure citizen loyalty to the government.)

Elon Musk developing rival robot called “Optimus” that functions just like a human being For all his talk against AI robots, Elon Musk is all about them when it comes to his own companies producing and unleashing them. In fact, Musk is currently working on a rival humanoid robot called “Optimus” that he says will be able to perform the same way as human beings on the job.

Musk says Optimus could be even “more significant” than his mostly plastic electric vehicles (EVs), which have been involved in many autopilot crashes and mysterious battery fires over the years.

In Hoek’s view, humanoid robots will eventually be used to look after old people and young people with health issues or disorders such as autism. No longer will people have other people, including family members, to comfort and care for them: instead, it will be robots providing humans with a “social life.”

“We now have robots also reacting to emotions, and reading behavior,” Hoek is quoted as saying. “We will have robots coping with mental disorders, behavioral disorders, with children and also with adults.”

“If we think about the old people, we’ll have a lot of 65-plus people. Robots can come into play, to support and to help, which also enables people to live longer.”

It is always a good idea to pause and think whenever someone pushing a dystopian new technology such as this couches it as something that will “help” humanity, either through companionship, care, or labor. Chances are that this is just the cover story for a much more sinister agenda.

Amazon, naturally, is also trying to break into the humanoid robot market by developing types to work in its warehouses and factories. The company says that one day there will be “lights out” factories with no human beings working there, just robots.

By the year 2035, humanoid robots will have a “profound impact” on society and the world economy, says Lisa Farrell, Business Development Manager at The National Robotarium.

“Mass producing reasonably-priced robots is achievable with economies of scale and advances in technologies, and we foresee all kinds of robots supporting workforces across manufacturing, healthcare, construction, transport, hospitality and more,” Farrell says.

“Intelligent robots can increase productivity, improve quality control, and help deliver repetitive or dangerous tasks.”

More related news about what China is up to these days can be found at Communism.news.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Military/Veterans; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: china; robots; technology
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1 posted on 12/08/2023 10:38:18 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Will they be eligible for asylum?


2 posted on 12/08/2023 10:40:25 AM PST by posterchild
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To: Red Badger

Using what power source?

It just won’t work.


3 posted on 12/08/2023 10:40:54 AM PST by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food)
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To: Red Badger

Soon we will have robots building robots to kill humans.


4 posted on 12/08/2023 10:41:49 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Bobby Heenan knew it all along.


5 posted on 12/08/2023 10:42:29 AM PST by RightWingNutJob69
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To: Red Badger

They’ll have more freedom than the humans


6 posted on 12/08/2023 10:42:45 AM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna! 1 gone, 1 almost dead. )
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To: Red Badger

Gee, it would be too bad if all those robots decide to take over and destroy all those pesky humans.


7 posted on 12/08/2023 10:43:04 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Berlin_Freeper

8 posted on 12/08/2023 10:43:32 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(film)


9 posted on 12/08/2023 10:44:36 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Red Badger

CHINA...

Replacing all the aborted female babies they murdered with robots. EVIL.


10 posted on 12/08/2023 10:45:16 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: Red Badger

Will they all scream continually about white supremacy? What colors will the robots be? Will affirmative Action still be a thing? Will the riot, burn loot and murder whenever a robot gets arrested?

So many questions so little time


11 posted on 12/08/2023 10:49:47 AM PST by Bob434
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China Plans to Unleash Mass-Produced Humanoid Robots to Replace Human Workers soldiers.
12 posted on 12/08/2023 10:50:01 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Red Badger

A hunoid robot does not replace a worker better than a robot specifically made for the job. Think of it. Most people sit at their desk all day. Why have legs. You would not be advantaged by a humanoid robot. It looks eerie. But its not better unless you want the robot to play football or something.


13 posted on 12/08/2023 10:50:05 AM PST by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: Red Badger

Think about the wheel. When it was invented, thousands of freight draggers were put out of work.

Think about TV repairmen. Lot fewer jobs doing that simply because the TVs are so much more reliable.


14 posted on 12/08/2023 10:50:17 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Fai Mao

Ever Ready Batteries


15 posted on 12/08/2023 10:50:42 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

T 2000

Buckle up buttercup.

5.56mm


16 posted on 12/08/2023 10:52:31 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: Red Badger

All the workers who are replaced by robots won’t have any income, so they won’t be able to purchase whatever product(s) the robots are manufacturing.


17 posted on 12/08/2023 10:52:31 AM PST by Signalman
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To: Red Badger
Robots can come into play, to support and to help, which also enables people to live longer.”

Either way is scary:


18 posted on 12/08/2023 10:53:16 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Red Badger

That’s what they have now...


19 posted on 12/08/2023 10:53:25 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Red Badger
This should be interesting, putting about a 500 million people out of work. And let me guess where they will be going.....

I guess military haircuts are all the rage today in China


20 posted on 12/08/2023 10:54:50 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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