Survivor's Christian Hubicki marvels at China's robotics games records: 'Willing to break the robots to do it'

The World Humanoid Robot Games made headlines this week, putting robotics experts in awe and leaving social media scrollers laughing at the robots’ histrionics, viral stumbles, and dramatic crashes and burns. In its second year, it is making an annual event out of stress-testing the limits of technological advancement, while allaying fears to the public that SkyNet is not on the verge of taking over the world. "The goal of this event really was to show how fast we can get robots to go," Christian Hubicki, Florida State University mechanical-engineering professor and robotics lab director, told one outlet on the final day of the five-day event.

"What happens to them afterwards? Well, as we can see, it's a bit dramatic. "They didn't care so much how they stopped.