The next step is the Chinese robot army.

One of China's priorities in AI is to create a robot army with advanced AI control. The difference between Western nations and China is that the military and security needs are always over the law. There are no rules or limits on how those authorities can collect personal information. 

The Chinese military plans to make an autonomous robot army. Those robots can use even Kung Fu. All robots do not look like humans. Robot dogs can be very versatile systems. Those systems can cooperate with drones that can carry them to roofs and other places where they can make unexpected things. In that case, those robots can operate as teams with quadcopters. 

The robot army is the next logical step in robot and AI development. SciFi writer Isaac Asimov introduced that horrible vision in his novel "The Naked Sun". In that novel, the fictional planet called "Solaria" created the robot mass-army. 

That vision is coming into reality. The AI or large language model, LLM, is a tool that can be used to command any robot in the world. The only thing that the robot requires is an Internet connection. The house-keeping robots like robot hovers are excellent tools for house-keeping. But the question is always: what else does the system make than just clean houses? 

The robot can transmit every single word that person says to the surveillance room. The LLM operates through the modified speech-to-text and text-to-speech applications. The system can select and link certain words to the third party. That party can be the security police. So you can ask yourself why Chinese authorities support a marketing policy, that every single Chinese must get their own tablet computer and own little robot at home. 

The humanoid robots or man-shaped robots are the Swiss army knives for people. Those robots can use any tool and weapon that humans use. The humanoid robots can operate in dangerous places like highly polluted areas. Those robots can operate as housekeepers and they can visit to shop for people. But those robots can also operate as fighter pilots. 

They can connect themselves to the aircraft's communication- and computing units. The humanoid robot can communicate with other systems like drones, satellite surveillance cameras, and even mobile telephones. The humanoid robot can operate as a bodyguard. The difference between people and robots is that robot's skills are computer programs. And robot's mass memories are not like human memory. The operator can erase mission recordings after the robot does its job. 

The robot with an image sensor can recognize any target from the streets. So when a robot recognizes the "enemy" it just can attack the target. And the biggest difference between humans and robots is this: robots have no conscience. That means the robot always does its mission. So, the bodyguard robot can also have a mission to deny things like leaps to the opposite side. So, if high-ranking people talk about prohibited things those robots can arrest them. 

The robot can have a so-called ghost protocol. That means that if the person who owns a robot acts against the state, that thing like wrong words activates that attack mode. Another risk is this: if the robot comes from a country that goes to war with the country where it's shipped the seller can simply download an attack program to the robot. The humanoid robot can look like a dummy or lay figure. When the operational order comes those dummies can jump through windows and march to the gun store. And that is one of the darkest visions in robotics. 

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2025/04/chinas-military-aims-harness-coming-chatgpt-robotics/404811/

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/us-report-reveals-china-s-plans-to-develop-an-army-of-robot-soldiers-with-advanced-ai/ar-AA1DyCku?ocid=BingNewsSerp

https://www.newsweek.com/china-killer-robots-unitree-robotics-191756

The Chinese military uses DeepSeek in non-combat missions.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army, the PLA uses DeepSeek AI in non-combat missions. The Deep Seek can operate as the opponent and data seek missions in war games or military training. 

The AI can be a good opponent for generals and admirals to research and develop tactics. That they want to use. 

To be effective generals and admirals those people need good opponents in their war games.  AI requires lots of information that they can benefit from in those missions. The DeepSeek can also used to train other AIs for military missions. 

The problem is that. Open military AIs can be banned.  And if mission-critical AI operates directly with outside users. 

Those users can infect it using malicious code. And if that AI does not work right. That is a catastrophe. 

And there is the possibility. In real cases, malware can infect those mission-intensive systems. Or as an example, electronic counter measures, ECM, and denial of service, DOS attacks can deny those LLM's operations. 

So, the solution is to use open applications as gloves. That keeps the military AI sterile against malicious code. 

If mission-critical AI operates directly with outsider users. They can see things like its server gates. The server that runs the LLM is similarly vulnerable to other servers. Hackers and malware can make attacks against those servers. 

Malicious software can infect that large language model, LLM. 

The open civilian application makes one extra layer between outside users and the military AI. 

The DeepSeek can collect databases from multiple sources. And when it is ready. 

The system can transfer those databases to other AI. The thing is that. The AI can use multiple sources to develop or train itself. 

The training is like collecting some kind of encyclopedia of things that the AI must react to. Without information the AI is helpless. It must recognize details and then compile a reaction database with things that it sees. 

The AI must recognize the situation and then find the action that allows it to make counter movement for that thing. 

Those data sources can be sensors like spy satellites and recon planes. The system can also use things like computer games to create counteraction for some maneuvers. The AI can transfer the maneuvers that it detects from those sensors to the computer game. And then, the opponent who might not know about that information source starts to play against those maneuvers. 

The system can render those objects like tanks to things. That even Western players can accept them. That kind of network-based data-collecting and training systems can teach those military AIs at a level. That they will not otherwise reach. The large-scale information collection is the thing that makes the AI more intelligent and capable to give response multiple situations. 

https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-pla-deepseek-ai-non-combat-operations

Image: Interesting Engineering

China builds the world's largest underwater drone.

"Smaller than regular diesel-electric submarines, China's latest vessel has torpedo tubes (Representational image)" (Interesting Engineering, China secretly building ‘world’s largest underwater drone’ with torpedo tubes)

The new Chinese submarine is smaller than the regular diesel-electric submarines. That means those vessels can be new and deadly drones. Those systems are larger than U.S. Navy Orca, autonomous underwater vehicle, AUV, systems. That makes those Chinese submarine drones more multipurpose than Orca. 

Researchers think that those new submarines can dock to the larger submarines and they can operate in various underwater missions. The submarine can carry smaller drones to the target. Those drones can be underwater caterpillars intelligent torpedoes, or underwater kamikaze drones. That submarine can be like matrioshka. There can be quadcopters that can operate airborne and underwater. 

They also have torpedo tubes, so they can attack other vessels like submarines and ground targets using missiles. And maybe. The Chinese military tests the robot combat swimmers which can operate like human combat swimmers. We all know the Chinese interest in robotics and its military applications. 

(Intersting Engineering, China secretly building ‘world’s largest underwater drone’ with torpedo tubes)

One version to make the submarine drone is to use human-shaped, humanoid robots as operators for regular submarines whose food and beds are replaced by computers. The thing is that the Chinese military and the state of China are not funding humanoid robot research just for fun. In China, nothing happens without military and governmental acceptance. 

Military applications are the primary objective in that country. And the AI-driven submarines are dangerous because they can act in both roles. They can have regular torpedos and missiles. But they can also carry internal warheads. That they can use as the last chance. The idea is that a very large internal warhead forms a giant tsunami that can destroy large areas in coastal lines. That kind of weapon can also destroy all naval and civil vessels in large ocean areas. 

That means those things can be very nasty tools. But those drones may only begin for more powerful and dangerous submarine drones. There are visions that maybe, quite soon, some state will bring full-scale nuclear submarine drones to oceans. Sometimes is speculated that the Russian Status-6, 100-megaton nuclear torpedo could be that kind of vessel. The submarine can navigate to its target using the ocean floor images in the sonar-based TERCOM system. 

And then they can shoot targets or they can explode nuclear warheads inside them. The nuclear submarine has space and nuclear reactors that can give energy to the supercomputers. And that means those submerged vehicles can operate independently. The gravity measurements along with ocean floor maps make them independent from satellite communication and satellite navigation. 

https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-building-largest-underwater-drone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_(AUV)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

The Chinese military has started to use 3D printing drones.

"China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is testing a system aided by 3D printing and drone deliveries to help the forces repair their equipment in remote locations or during wartime. The PLA is potentially testing this capability."(Interesting Engineering/China combines 3D printing and drones to support troops in combat zones)

"According to the reports, the testing was carried out by a brigade belonging to the PLA’s Northern Theatre Command Air Force." (Interesting Engineering/China combines 3D printing and drones to support troops in combat zones)

This comes just months after the United States Army tried to get this capability and demonstrate it on the front lines.

The 3D printing drones are tools that can make repairings for damaged tools. Those systems can theoretically form any physical form. The drones require only drawings that they should follow. They can make even ships and large-scale structures. 

The 3D printing technology. Along with AI and remote control printers. 

The remote-printing tools can give civil and military users new types of flexibility. The smaller 3D printing system can be mounted in the truck.

And it can create things like drones if it has the microchips for those systems. The high-temperature system can use carbage metals or plastic carbage for the spare parts of the damaged drones. 

The system can create propellers and other parts by using waste. The system melts the waste and then transforms it into the wire, that the 3D system uses. And then. Those systems can create anything that the military needs. The system can melt metals using lasers or some microwave systems, and those tools can be more effective than nobody realizes. 

The air bubbles in the system make those machine parts and other types of 3D-printed items weak. The vacuum workspace and other kinds of things that deny the gas impact on the machine parts remove those bubbles. 

(SCMP.com/ China’s military tests remote 3D printed parts and drone delivery for battlefield: report)

(Interesting Engineering/China combines 3D printing and drones to support troops in combat zones)

The system can use lasers and high-power 3D X- or gamma-ray scanners to search the material errors. The centrifugal sling can separate those raw materials. And the shape of those AI-controlled highly advanced factories can be like a group of containers. Those 3D printing factories can be the systems that emulate living cells and form anything that the users want. 

And spectroscopes to remove artifacts from the raw materials. That allows those systems to create things like guns and other things. Like jet engine spare parts on the battlefield. The 3D printer requires the drawings and material lists from the central computers. 

If there are suitable melting systems and drones those kinds of systems can collect needed materials from their environment. And then. That 3D printing system can create needed things by following orders that the system operators give. This kind of manufacturing system is the most advanced in the world. 

The flexibility is the reason why those systems are planned to be used in space programs. Space drones, or highly maneuverable systems can fix damaged satellites and space stations. 

The space drone is the system there propellers of the regular drones are replaced with rocket engines. Or there can be the rocket. There is a platform that can aim the rocket jet to the sides of the chamber. And when the system inclines that platform it can turn the rocket jet in the wanted direction. That kind of rocket can give orbital drones very accurate movement. 

https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-pla-3d-printing-drone

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3292338/chinas-military-tests-remote-3d-printed-parts-and-drone-delivery-battlefield-report

The tiger awakens.

The new and powerful technology is the tool, that is one of the most dangerous things in the wrong hands. Wrong hands are our counter-players in the global theater. The image in the middle of the text introduces the new Chinese large-size sea drone. The robot ship can be the tool for next-generation naval power. The ship itself looks like some kind of yacht, but it's armed and dangerous. Fast and powerful sea drones that use things like Mach-6-10 railguns are feared things. 

The Chinese military is interested in AI. It is a tool that can make many systems more trusted than manned systems. The problem with manned submarines. A and warships is that they are out of control when they are at sea. That is problematic for the People's Republic of China. The authoritarian communist party causes hate, and especially new high-accurate weapons make warships dangerous for the nation's leaders. The Chinese military has modernized its weapons and other systems. The new tools are large-scale surface and underwater drones. 

"China unveils ‘Killer Whale’ stealth drone ship. The vessel which has a range of more than 7,000km will go on display alongside a collection of aerial drones at the Zhuhai air show" (SCMP, China unveils ‘Killer Whale’ stealth drone ship"

Those large- or full-size surfaces and underwater robots are following predictions. The large-size warships and nuclear submarines have space and electricity for highly advanced computers. That the AI is required to control those systems. The predictions about the full-size nuclear submarine drones that can patrol years underwater were made over 20 years ago. Those nuclear submarines can host any supercomputers. 

"A new photo has emerged of China’s mysterious stealthy corvette or light frigate, an intriguing design with low-observable features, which you can read more about here. In fact, the latest photo raises more questions than it answers, in particular, the presumed HQ-10 surface-to-air missile launcher at the rear of the deckhouse apparently being something else entirely." (TWZ.com, Our Best Look At China’s Stealthy Experimental Corvette)

The new robot surface combatants are a demonstration of the ideas and innovations. The People's Liberation Army wants to introduce the Western navies. When it demonstrates its power. The Chinese military uses industrial spying to steal information. That makes it possible to create new tools for the PLA. The PLA's new stealth corvette looks very much like Swedish Visby class corvettes. The thing is that things like magnetic rail guns that accelerate the ammunition to the speed of Mach 6-10 are things that make those corvettes deadlier than any Western vessels. Those railguns can sweep bunkers out from the beach and damage even large vehicles. 

"China’s rail gun sends smart bomb into stratosphere at hypersonic speed, then something goes wrong. Winged projectile achieves Mach 5, reaching altitude of 15km in test but was sent off course by rotation speeds, investigation shows. Lu Junyong and his team identified the cause of the problem with the help of artificial intelligence and propose solutions in peer-reviewed paper" (SCMP. China’s rail gun sends smart bomb into stratosphere at hypersonic speed, then something goes wrong)

The underwater systems that can shoot missiles, including hypersonic missiles are a very bad threat to Western navies. Those, possibly, nuclear-powered systems can hide underwater even years. And then they can also wait at the enemy, or predict enemy coasts to attack. The large-size robots can carry smaller robots that can slip into the enemy area. 

The new advanced systems are tools that can bring global politics and U.S. support to a critical point. The new advanced systems require more advanced counter systems than predicted. This means that the Pentagon must share also its latest equipment with the Far East and European theaters. 

https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-claims-breakthrough-in-electromagnetic-rail-gun

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3262607/chinas-rail-gun-sends-smart-bomb-stratosphere-hypersonic-speed-then-something-goes-wrong

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3285955/china-unveils-killer-whale-stealth-drone-ship

https://www.twz.com/sea/our-best-look-at-chinas-stealthy-experimental-corvette

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby-class_corvette