Two employees in a Chinese factory are said to have worked on a robot when it ‘went insane’, resulting in some eerie dystopian scenarios in a viral video. It looks like the time has finally arrived, my friends.
This appears to be the result of all those demands for AI to compose a simple email or check the weather. society’s unavoidable demise when robots permanently replace humans.
When you’ve been using AI to settle arguments with friends or write school essays, I hope you’ve been saying “please” and “thank you.”
These machines will remember everything, even if it costs the corporation millions of dollars just because you remember your manners.
1. China’s Unitree H1 humanoid robot suddenly started moving wildly during a demo. pic.twitter.com/Wp4OgM9J65
— Hamza Khalid (@Whizz_ai) May 3, 2025
The Chinese tech company Unitree Robotics specializes in quadrupedal robots, but it has expanded to market humanoid models as well.
They can be purchased for as cheap as $16,000 (£12,000), which is a tiny thing to pay if you want to fight them off like Will Smith.
