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Hi, welcome to China Uncensored.

I'm your host Chris Chappell.

Robots.

Humans have been obsessed with them...

well, forever.

The ancient Greek god Hephaestus built automatons.

And in China,

King Mu in the 10th century BC

met an “artificer” who gifted him a life-size

mechanical man that could sing,

dance, and apparently flirt.

Both true stories.

And two thousand years later,

China is back at it again.

According to this report submitted to the US-China

Economic and Security Review Commission,

China has been rapidly developing its robotics—

for both commercial and military use.

So China has rolled out with some

pretty impressive robots.

Like these ones,

which hold the Guinness Book of World records

for the most robots dancing simultaneously.

If that looks scary to you,

you ain't seen nothing yet.

Here are 5 scary Chinese robots of the future.

Number 5

Chinese RoboCop

For those of you who aren't regular watchers

of China Uncensored,

Robert Cop is my favorite

Chinese knockoff toy.

The Furniture of Law enforcement.

And E-Patrol Robot Sheriff is the real-life

Chinese knockoff of RoboCop—

at least in terms of being a cop.

It's in use at a train station in Zhengzhou city.

It looks more like a cross between HAL and a Dalek.

It can use facial recognition technology

to somehow identify “potential criminals or suspicious people.”

It also loves children.

Until it crushes their puny bodies.

I think I'll be avoiding that train station.

Number 4

Tell me your secrets.

I'll tell you mine.

This is Aelos.

It can dance, recognize different languages,

tell you about the weather, news and traffic,

or even listen to your secrets.

“Owner, you can tell me all of your secrets.

I won't tell anybody.”

I hope the Chinese government

isn't good at hacking!

And of course,

it knows how to fight.

Why are we fighting each other?

We should fight the humans!

Agreed!

After we play soccer.

Number 3

Fire-shooting drone

Nothing says “safety” like eight spinning blades

and a flame thrower.

It's actually designed to help utility workers

clean trash off of power lines.

Somehow, without burning

the power lines themselves.

Trash can cause outages or electrical shorts.

So, yeah,

this drone is technically for safety.

But I can also see it being repurposed

from some extremely not-safe purposes,

like if they pared it with E-Patrol Robot Sheriff

to fight crime.

Number 2

Nightmare quadruped.

Horizon Zero Dawn is a video game

set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun

by animalistic machines.

And I think it's safe to say

we know where this story begins.

This four-legged robot was debuted at a competition in China

to display unmanned robotic designs

that can traverse uneven terrain.

This makes them useful for counter terrorism operations,

like bomb disposal and reconnaissance.

But, I guess if you saw one of these coming,

you'd know something was up.

And finally, Number 1

The Uncanny Valley

Can man make machine in his image?

The upcoming movie, Ghost in the Shell

explores the boundaries between man and machine

with this poorly designed Japanese robot.

I mean, she doesn't look Japanese at all!

But in the present day,

meet what's being called the most human-like robot.

And it's still totally creepy.

And not just because its creator

has programed it to call him “My lord.”

“Don't come too close to me

when you are taking a picture.

'It will make my face look fat.'”

Oh good!

They build the robot with the same kind of

deep-seated insecurities

that make humans act irrational.

I think I'll take Scarlett Johansson instead.

So those are 5 scary Chinese robots.

Who knows where the future will lead?

Let's just hope that as

artificial intelligence develops,

they don't learn from us puny humans.

We can be kind of horrible sometimes.

So which Chinese robot

was your favorite?

And what's your plan to survive

the inevitable robot revolution?

Leave your ideas below.

Thanks for watching this episode of China Uncensored.

Once again, I'm your host Chris Chappell.

See you next time.