Reuters used the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing to hype up the narrative of a "Chinese robot army," even though it admitted it found no evidence. The so-called wartime deployment is nothing but a medley of procurement notices, academic studies, and patents. So who really wants robots on the battlefield? 

The U.S. "Phantom MK1" has been sent to Ukraine. Military orders keep rolling in, and the Pentagon is handing out AI arms contracts left and right. The U.S. ships its own robots to the front line, yet cries foul over other countries' early-stage tech research. If that's not double standard, what is?  

Besides, today's humanoid robots are far from being practical systems. Such hype only fuels an arms race. Right now, humanoid robots should help humans detect toxic zones and search through ruins. Rather than fabricating stories about other nations' robot forces, why not sit down together and answer the real question: Do we really want to teach robots to pull the trigger?