Friday, January 10, 2025

"Robot Man" Won't Be a Thing

"Tank Man" who briefly slowed down the slaughter of pro-democracy protesters in Tienanmen Square by PLA troops in 1989 wouldn't stand a chance against robotic enforcers. The tank crews hesitated to kill an unarmed man. Would any man simply choose to stand in the way of robots without souls to trouble?

China has robot police prototypes out in the streets (tip to Instapundit):

Chinese robotics company Logon Technology unveiled the RT-G autonomous spherical robot in a "technological breakthrough" the other month.

And despite people believing it was all a bizarre marketing stunt, RT-G bots have actually been spotted the streets of China alongside human cops.

Footage shows one of the beast balls rolling round a city, carefully patrolling for any potential crime that could occur.

The spheres are designed to assist - and eventually replace humans - in dangerous environments and situations involving crime.

It is designed to be armed and to withstand blunt force blows.

There will be no "tank man" willing to stand up to killer robots programmed to maintain the Chinese Communist Party's monopoly of political power in China.

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