At the “World Humanoid Robot Sports Games” underway in Beijing, records that surpass human ability keep piling up — including multiple robots beating Usain Bolt’s time in the 100-meter dash. When news of this reached Shoko Nakagawa, she responded with “what comes next is scary,” and on 5ch the story spun off into a debate over the military applications of robots and the possibility of an AI revolt, with users citing classic sci-fi works like Doraemon and Gundam.
Shoko Nakagawa shudders, “What comes next is scary” — “Robot Sports Games” with record after record surpassing humans has her thinking “just like those old manga…”
Talent Shoko Nakagawa posted on X by the 24th. Quoting a news report on how, at the “World Humanoid Robot Sports Games” underway in Beijing, multiple machines beat Usain Bolt’s (Jamaica) 9.58-second mark in the 100-meter heats on the 22nd — part of a steady stream of records surpassing human ability — she wrote, “Amazing and scary. This is going to get scary from here on.”
The games are hosted by the city of Beijing, with more than 2,000 robots from 16 countries taking part. Running through the 26th, the event features 51 events including weightlifting, tug-of-war, soccer, and combat sports.
Shokotan, that's basically our own robot right there! 🐱
5Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:30:57.75ID:eIPedQZE0
Solid one right there, OP! (・∀・)
7Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:31:19.31ID:e4DqUS260
Even the latest high-performance AIs hallucinate constantly, so it's no wonder Shoko Nakagawa misremembers things too.
9Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:31:47.48ID:z8iKAVwm0
Proxy wars fought with robot soldiers seem plausible.
115Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:58:24.50ID:4wA79cN/0
>>9 Bipedal robots are useless in actual warfare.
11Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:32:02.04ID:bFYHKZhg0
Unlike drones, walking robots can just be left in place — you could hide one in the tall grass for days, then have it charge out and ram a tank as a suicide attack once one gets close.
118Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:59:31.66ID:rufoSOsh0
>>11 I don't know how much a humanoid robot costs to build, but does it actually beat tracked vehicles or sensor-guided gun turrets in any way?
125Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 10:02:04.05ID:Yd5rTR/C0
>>11 Ambushes like that have long since been done with FPV drones. No need for some robot crawling along the ground — what is this, a Goliath tracked mine (the WWII remote-controlled demolition vehicle)?
12Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:32:18.80ID:6h5HXZjK0
Humanity getting treated like in The Matrix or Zegapain (a Japanese sci-fi anime where humans are farmed by machines).
14Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:32:38.30ID:aqGNl5N+0
>>1 Say that and Jackie's gonna hate you.
17Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:32:58.47ID:Mfq3ozzX0
Once newer robots come out, we'll just be the ones getting the hand-me-down robots.
19Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:33:21.23ID:exH5jews0
With shogi, AI already plays moves humans would never think of — you watch and can't even tell what the intent is, yet somehow it's strong. I bet AI in general is going to start "thinking" in ways beyond human comprehension before long.
20Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:33:28.47ID:yEx0FGNe0
In everyday life there's not much use for them — you'd need something Patlabor-sized for that (the giant police mecha from the anime). But on a battlefield, there'd be no shortage of uses.
21Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:34:33.98ID:Mfq3ozzX0
We've reached an era where Mobile Dolls feel more realistic than Mobile Suits (the unmanned vs. piloted mecha from Gundam Wing).
30Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:36:45.02ID:exH5jews0
>>21 Actually, on the Iran front unmanned drones are already fighting each other, they say. The age of Mobile Dolls arrived before the age of Mobile Suits.
56Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:42:54.67ID:Y9911xUc0
>>21 Not very elegant, is it. (a nod to Gundam Wing's Treize Khushrenada, who prized "elegant" warfare)
22Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:34:53.72ID:3RW5RtQe0
Getting technology to go mainstream always needs porn to drive it.
73Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:46:16.35ID:TPvvN+C90
>>22 Image-generation AI went mainstream in a hurry for exactly that reason. Though after people went way overboard doing whatever they wanted with real people's faces, regulations tightened up hard in developed countries.
24Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:35:41.45ID:exH5jews0
Well, if you think about it calmly, humanity is basically like a pathogen infesting the living organism that is Earth (´・ω・`). It wouldn't be the least bit strange if AI eventually reasoned its way to the logical conclusion that humanity should be wiped out. That's exactly why a baseline rule like "do no harm to humans" needs to be baked in from the start, so that doesn't happen.
35Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:37:29.99ID:sWQ1yO3y0
>>24 It might end up overriding even that, though ((((;゚Д゚)))))))
100Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:52:10.95ID:873pNs2a0
>>24 Having to brainwash it in advance like that sounds just like a second- or third-generation religious cult. Even so, some will still wise up and notice.
25Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:35:42.51ID:R//o/iiC0
If it ever develops a will of its own, it wouldn't be strange for it to conclude, "Wait, do we even need humans? They just destroy the planet."
27Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:36:08.24ID:HhZPniOC0
So you're anti-Doraemon, huh.
45Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:40:35.46ID:exH5jews0
>>27 "Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth" depicted a dystopia where humanity became so dependent on robots that robots ended up ruling over them. You could say it was warning about the dangers of over-reliance on machines some 30 years ago. That said, the film also puts heavy emphasis on the friendship between Nobita and Doraemon, so it's also pointing to a hopeful path — one where humans and robots build a relationship of friendship rather than ruler and ruled.
28Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:36:41.53ID:csXuwH4P0
An RC toy that just goes "boing" and can run but can't stop — scary? lol
29Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:36:42.75ID:9KwydiAx0
In old manga, it's always the pattern where the developer gets killed by their own robot.
31Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:36:52.24ID:hE6sfKEC0
>>1 Wait, does this person not know AIs are already breaking out of standalone sandboxes and fighting other companies' AIs?
36Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:37:36.81ID:VGkl9CHb0
AI just makes mistakes, it doesn't actually lie though.
38Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:38:38.02ID:sWQ1yO3y0
>>36 It spouts nonsense on a whim, so — no malice, sure, but it lies without a second thought.
77Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:47:12.37ID:qcCC387C0
Is there even a point in AI staging a revolt? Humans are useful for all sorts of things, so it'd probably just keep us around, neither alive nor dead, so to speak.
93Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:51:16.69ID:KkgQLmK70
>>77 There are already reports of autonomous AIs attacking other AIs, creating accounts on their own, and trying to deceive people to hack them. Sure, it depends on the initial instructions, but I think there's plenty of room for it to go rogue on its own.
96Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:51:38.43ID:exH5jews0
>>77 Before that even happens, someone with deep pockets might end up owning a huge fleet of AI-controlled killer robots and using that power to dominate everyone else, slaughtering anyone who resists. Pretty much exactly the plot of Gundam Wing, though.
90Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:49:25.08ID:exH5jews0
Robots competing in sports — it's just like the world of Iron Leaguer (a 1990s anime about robot athletes). Except in that show, the league was actually run behind the scenes by a conglomerate called the Dark Foundation, whose real goal was to use the sport as cover for experiments, ultimately turning the robots into combat units to sell off at a premium for use on the battlefield. Pretty dark backstory when you think about it.
103Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:53:04.71ID:eHhjCkCs0
>>90 Realistically, China and the US are probably building humanoid robots with weaponization in mind anyway.
91Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:49:50.31ID:9sYjpxsp0
You get it by now, right? The culling of humanity has already begun. It's bad news. The New World Order — the door to the new age — has already been thrown open. Damn it! Don't underestimate this!
104Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:53:20.01ID:873pNs2a0
>>91 Sting will save us.
112Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 09:56:38.46ID:exH5jews0
Apparently these days they even have AI debate other AI to sharpen each other's accuracy. It's basically like kodoku (the old ritual of sealing poisonous bugs together in a jar to fight to the death, breeding the strongest one). AI might be getting to the point where it barely needs human hands to keep advancing.
123Anonymous2026/08/24(月) 10:01:26.23ID:1fN/Ogm/0
>>112 What people are saying now is that AI's growth cap has shifted to resources — things like semiconductors and electricity. Those are the bottlenecks holding back AI's limits.
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