Video: WEF Robot Goes On Killing Rampage in China

A chilling video circulating on X captures a World Economic Forum-linked Unitree Robotics H1 humanoid robot going on a killing rampage in a Chinese developer lab. The footage shows the robot, produced in Hangzhou, China, violently lashing out, nearly delivering lethal blows to its handler.

Tethered yet dangerously agitated, the robot is seen swinging its arms wildly, resembling a full-blown panic breakdown. The incident, raising alarms about AI safety, underscores the unpredictable risks of advanced robotics as the technology rapidly evolves in controlled environments.

Modernity.news reports: The “erratic behavior” was said to have been caused by imperfect coding,” however, given that this is China, details are scant, and the context of the footage has not been verified.

The robot retails for $90,000 (not including customs duties) in a listing on the company’s website.

“If you buy Chinese stuff, it might all end up like this… They might even deliberately make it this way to harm people…,” one X user noted.

The behaviour of the robot is reminiscent of another recent video showing an AI-controlled robot ‘attacking’ a crowd during a festival in China.

The android started jerking around erratically and appeared to begin to charging at the crowd while throwing an attempted head butt.

Event organizers claimed the incident happened as a result of “a simple robot failure,” whatever that means.

As we previously highlighted, this technology is approaching a so called “iPhone moment,” a game-changing breakthrough when a new product suddenly transforms an industry. 

These kind of things only previously imagined in dystopian science fiction are starting to become creepy reality.

Police forces are even now deploying the robots, making Robocop a reality.

What could possibly go wrong?

There was never a more fitting moment for this clip…