China's AI-powered humanoid robots aim to transform manufacturing. Robots' rise and replacement of humans in some job categories spurs talk of AI unemployment insurance.
🇺🇸The US needs to come up with policies or legislation about what we are doing to deal with the fact that AI automation is replacing human jobs and apparently in the future AI robots will replace even more human jobs.🇺🇸
In a sprawling warehouse in a Shanghai suburb, dozens of humanoid robots are manoeuvred by their operators to carry out tasks like folding a T-shirt, making a sandwich and opening doors, over and over again. A successful and widespread deployment of these robots in factory floors would enable China to keep driving economic growth.
China's government published a national elderly-care plan in December that encouraged integration of humanoid robots and AI. Soon after, tech giant Ant Group announced the creation of new subsidiary Ant Lingbo Technology, whose humanoid robots will focus on elderly care, among other areas. "The robots in five or 10 years could organise a resident's room, pick up a package or even transfer people from a bed to a washroom," said AgiBot's Yao.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-ai-powered-humanoid-robots-aim-transform-manufacturing-2025-05-13/
