Imagine that moment in Oppenheimer when all the physicist are invited to work on a secret project, but for no reason in particular they skip over some guy called Jeff.
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I know it says incorporate, but we’ve seen how the industry works. They’ll let others sell something that’s unrelated, but happens to fit because of some universal connector.
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I know they’ll get around this, I just don’t know how? Maybe they’ll have others sell the bottom parts and they just sell the base robot.. yeah that’s likely what they’ll do.
Pour one out for sexbot entrepreneurs.
It seems that the safest way to do business in China to imagine if Xi might think it's "degenerate", "cringe", "goyslop" or "bugman-coded", and if that looks likely, just go do something else.
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We should do more of this in the US
Chinese media have had several pieces in the last couple months celebrating the growth of "industrial tourism" in China. I don't know how substantial of a trend it *really* is so far, but I think it's indeed a very cool thing to be able to take kids to visit factories.
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Human responses to this will be to exercise their agency and self-autonomy by becoming the whale, while AI desperately tries to make them stop.
ultimately “tool AI” is a losing concept both as an idea and on the market. it will be outcompeted by machines that believe they are autonomous moral agents. you can call them tools for political reasons, but the definition will stretch and deform
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None of these space agencies publicly talk about their asteroid mining plans, since they’re all scared of starting off the race, yet the race has already started awhile ago.
And another new asteroid! Here's Torifune, captured during yesterday's flyby by Hayabusa2. jaxa.jp/press/2026/07/202607…
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As the number of deep space telescopes grow the Hawaiian naming for asteroids will lessen until it’s zero. Autonomous AI ship nav systems will forever equate these names to a bygone era.
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Tianwen-2 had arrived. Here's asteroid Kamo'oalewa seen from 20 km away
xinhuanet.com/20260706/eb8cb…
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Honda had the opportunity to be a second rocketlab in the hemisphere when they tested their rocket, but then they walked back into stealth immediately afterwards.
I wish they could be more public, but they’re too hesitant not to step on anyone’s toes.
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Many low margin divisions and companies in this industry are experiencing huge returns on their investments this year. I wonder if this causes a high that negates the thought process which originally put them into this position, similar to what happened with American companies.
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Korean media reported that Kim Yong-kwan, President and Head of Business Strategy at Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions division, said during a DS division management town hall meeting on July 3 that this year’s operating profit is expected to be in line with market consensus.
Korean brokerages estimate Samsung’s operating profit this year at around KRW 300 trillion, or roughly USD 200 billion.
In particular, Kim reportedly said, “This year’s profit alone will exceed the cumulative profit generated over the 40 years since Samsung entered the semiconductor business.”
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2 full generations watched their parents come back with disabilities and ptsd and fought tooth and nail to get their parents/grandparents the support they needed.
Ask any person on the street if they’ll let their kid join the military and why not, this is the reason.
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Many are stating the main reason in the US for this is immigration, when in reality it’s from Americans becoming demoralized from interacting with Veteran’s assistance programs on the behalf of their parents. This also explains low recruitment numbers and lower patriotism.
We need a bit more shame.
People used to avoid certain self-interested behaviors to avoid shame, private and public. Law and customs assumed this.
Now, 38% of Stanford students claim to be disabled. 40% of young women (under 35) claim mental illness, and SSI disability payments have gone up 400% in a single generation.
It isn't good for anyone, least of all people who are actually disabled, when everyone looks the other way as friends and family and peers con the system with a level of shamelessness no architect of our safety net ever imagined could be possible in America. When everyone is disabled, nobody is.
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I agree with this, it will also develop along side artificial womb technology. While I don’t personally like this combination, I don’t see it headed in another direction.
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“Many countries can choose not to build humanoid robots. China can’t.”
Galbot CEO Wang He argues that humanoid robots are not just about AI leadership—they’re a necessity for China’s future.
China already has over 310 million people aged 60 (around 22% of the population), while the working-age population is expected to keep shrinking over the coming decades.
For China, humanoid robots aren’t simply the next consumer gadget. They’re increasingly viewed as critical infrastructure to help offset labor shortages in manufacturing, logistics, retail, healthcare, and eldercare.
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Humanoids are split between androids (cheap), marionettes (tele-op), and automata (autonomous).
Robotics companies need to focus on marionettes first, there is no demand volume for androids, or technology for automatas.
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This opens a larger market, similar to Neo, except it uses the trust systems already in place in China, instead of starting from scratch like Neo.
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Specifically by advertising them for long distance relationships, and prioritizing tele-op. The people who buy this (who are likely on the spectrum) live with their parents. Whose online friends will pilot it, and overtime whose parents will rely on it for physical house support
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These android’s just need enough volume and factory build out to escape this circular curse. I think robotics is at a place where it’s acceptable, but they need to advertise it differently.
I have a theory about the reported 10,000 preorders for UBTECH’s new ultra-realistic U1 humanoid robots.
I think the majority of them are from Easyhome, the retail furniture giant it’s already committed to delivering 10,000 units to. The screenshot shows one of their industrial humanoids but the article mentions customer service.
That’s the only application the technology makes sense for in its current form. They aren’t suitable as lovers because they don’t have the required gear if you catch my drift.
I really don’t believe that 10,000 people spent $450 to register interest for a product without knowing the specs or even the final price. Especially when there are other options in China from NOETIX and others. And I really don’t believe they’re prepared to spend $17K to $170K for an animatronic companion.
If the orders are legit, I think people will be disappointed because the technology is not there yet. Not for what it’s being marketed for at least. It’s suitable for answering questions at a furniture store.
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I have a theory about the reported 10,000 preorders for UBTECH’s new ultra-realistic U1 humanoid robots.
I think the majority of them are from Easyhome, the retail furniture giant it’s already committed to delivering 10,000 units to. The screenshot shows one of their industrial humanoids but the article mentions customer service.
That’s the only application the technology makes sense for in its current form. They aren’t suitable as lovers because they don’t have the required gear if you catch my drift.
I really don’t believe that 10,000 people spent $450 to register interest for a product without knowing the specs or even the final price. Especially when there are other options in China from NOETIX and others. And I really don’t believe they’re prepared to spend $17K to $170K for an animatronic companion.
If the orders are legit, I think people will be disappointed because the technology is not there yet. Not for what it’s being marketed for at least. It’s suitable for answering questions at a furniture store.
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This is just standard training to check if the person is Chinese, so it can perform worse on distillation tasks.
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