On December 6th, a short video of special police in Wenzhou Lucheng, Zhejiang, patrolling the streets with a spherical robot went viral and topped the trending searches. The footage shows a large, dark, ball-shaped object resembling a dung ball, followed by a group of black-clad special police officers, creating a very eerie scene.
According to Huang Sufeng, deputy captain of the Wenzhou Lucheng Public Security Special Patrol Brigade, this is a police device with combat capabilities that can respond to close-range dangers. It can be equipped with various police equipment on both sides of the robot based on operational needs, such as net guns, tear gas sprayers, smoke grenades, as well as loudspeakers and sonic dispersers. “It can track, fight, and apprehend. It is amphibious and integrated for reconnaissance and strike. It weighs 125 kilograms and can reach speeds of up to 35 kilometers per hour,” he said, also mentioning that “in the future, police equipment will be continuously optimized and upgraded according to practical needs.”
This robot was developed by the School of Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University. Developers stated that the robot can withstand impacts of four tons, making it suitable for high-altitude falls and operational collisions. However, the spherical robot is costly, with a price around 400,000 RMB. As production and application increase, costs and prices may decrease. Wang Youzhi, associate professor at Zhejiang University’s School of Control Science and Engineering, candidly said, “It is especially suitable for counter-terrorism and stability maintenance duties.”
Since the restoration of capitalism in China, to suppress popular resistance, the Chinese government has not only enacted a series of “pocket crimes” in law but also created countless tools of repression. Following the example of imperialist predecessors, it has developed a range of “non-lethal” weapons in an attempt to intimidate the people. The earliest patent application for non-lethal weapons in China appeared in 1986, later than in Western countries, but as the economy built on exploitation and oppression of the people continued to develop, social conflicts intensified. Patent applications related to non-lethal weapons have shown a steady increase year by year. Clearly, “stability maintenance” has increasingly become a national strategy under Chinese rule. As early as 2018, China’s stability maintenance expenses surpassed defense spending, making it the largest public expenditure in the country.
“Whether it protects or suppresses the masses is the fundamental difference between the Communist Party and the Kuomintang; it is the fundamental difference between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie; it is the fundamental difference between the dictatorship of the proletariat and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.” The Chinese government’s red skin, which has been criticized for over forty years, is becoming increasingly unsustainable. The so-called spherical robot is merely a mindless stacking of various repression weapons. Such robots cannot even climb stairs, let alone fight guerrilla warfare by the masses. No matter how much the Chinese government praises it, under the iron fist of Marxism held by the broad proletariat and working people, they are nothing but a pile of scrap metal. The government will, like a dung beetle, push its dung ball and fall into the abyss of irreversible history.
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If this thing costs 400,000, it already equals the annual wages of four or five workers. They would rather spend money on these trash than give workers some basic living allowances. On one side, workers are constantly fighting for the normal payment of wages to meet their basic needs for survival; on the other side, Chinese imperialism is willing to expand deficits to further exploit the people by manufacturing these reactionary suppression weapons.
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Whether a robot is easy to use also depends on who is holding it; even the most powerful war weapon in the hands of a Chinese repairman cannot be used effectively, because someone always has to operate it.
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May I ask if this data has a source?
From the news link below
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Thinking about the previous matter of the robot dog, the middle repair also wanted to suppress the working people with the robot dog
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