Chinese startup UBTECH Robotics just snagged a $37M contract to deploy its Walker S2 humanoid robots at the China-Vietnam border in Fangchenggang, where they’ll guide passenger queues, direct vehicles, patrol corridors, and inspect cargo containers. The deployment follows China’s 2023 directive to build a national humanoid robotics innovation system by 2025.
An interesting question in these deployment is how would one consider an attack from/by these robots. Clearly, destroying one could be an act of war, but of a much lower intensity than killing a human guard. We have yet to establish the “value” of those things.