Mixed Human Feelings After a Day at a Park Full of Robots (nytimes)

How does a human feel in a robot park in China, with state of the art human-like robots?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/world/asia/south-korea-ai-humanoid-robot-park.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFE.E-G_.t14PmNM-sFdT&smid=url-share

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I’m impressed. This feels like the hockey-stick curve where we are on the bottom part of the hockey stick, and the curve is about to jump vertically up to the handle, just like AI was silly until ChatGPT arrive and blew our minds. We see robots running the 100 meter dash faster than Usain Bolt, and the crash and burn literally at the end of the race. We see choreographed robots at the Chinese Lunar New Year doing astounding martial arts. We see terrible robot household agents getting stuck unloading the dishwasher. But glimmers of the future break through. Who will we be then?

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