Name: 西方國家陷入危機！ (The West is in Trouble)
Uploaded: 2026-03-10T18:05:10.000Z
Duration: 15 min 22 s

China's kung fu robots are a wake up call for the west world terrified of humanoid Chinese robots.

中國的功夫機器人，是對害怕中國擬人型機器人的西方世界的一記警鐘。

Can the west recover from China's knockout blow?

西方能從中國的致命一擊中恢復過來嗎？

What a load of rubbish Chinese robot propaganda nonsense.

這根本是中國機器人宣傳的胡說八道。

我們來看看到底發生了什麼事。

我說，你看，他們只是在跳舞。

It's not as if there's a massive weaponized sword wielding robot.

又不是什麼巨大的武器化揮舞刀劍的機器人。

Well, I'll tell you what, beats a sword wielding, somersaulting robot battery life.

好吧，我跟你說，這比揮舞刀劍、翻筋斗的機器人電池續航力還好。

Oh, they can switch out their own batteries on the fly and load themselves into a crate for battle.

喔，他們可以即時更換電池，然後自己裝箱準備戰鬥。

You know, when you're at school, there was always that one kid who made you look bad because they always did so much better, made it look so easy.

你知道嗎，在學校的時候，總有那麼一個同學，因為他總是做得更好，看起來毫不費力，讓你相形見絀。

The teacher would always be like, oh, why can't you get good marks?

老師總是會說，喔，你為什麼不能拿高分？

像是 Scott，你為什麼不能表現好一點？

It made losers like me wonder why I ever bothered at all.

讓像我這樣的魯蛇開始懷疑，幹嘛要這麼努力。

Now imagine that, but on a geopolitical scale.

現在想像一下，只是規模變成地緣政治等級。

And you get China here to make a mockery of us all.

然後中國就來嘲弄我們所有人。

the time it's taken for the UK to decide whether to connect its first and second biggest cities with 225km of high speed rail, a process that quite literally got held up by a bat in a tree.

英國花了這麼久的時間，才決定要不要在他們第一大和第二大城市之間，蓋 225 公里的高鐵，這個過程竟然因為樹上的蝙蝠而延誤進度。

China's gone and built 50,000 kilometers of high speed rail.

中國已經蓋了五萬公里的高鐵。

What about fusion energy, humanity's last hope?

那融合能源呢？人類的最後希望？

In the south of France, dozens of nations, including China, have joined hands to build iter, a colossal facility expected to cost $50 billion that will hopefully crack open the secrets of fusion energy for us all.

在法國南部，包括中國在內的許多國家聯手建造了 ITER，一座預計耗資 500 億美元的龐大設施，希望能為我們所有人揭開融合能源的奧祕。

Predictably, though, it's significantly behind schedule and over budget.

不出所料，它已經延誤進度且超出預算。

And in the next 10 years, there's a higher chance of me personally unlocking the secrets of the universe using this laser pen and this bag of dirt.

而且在接下來的十年裡，我個人更有可能用這支雷射筆和這袋泥土解開宇宙的奧祕。

Meanwhile, China got a bit bored, demolished a mountain and built what can only be described as a gateway to another universe.

同時，中國有點無聊，他們拆了一座山，建造了只能被形容為通往另一個宇宙的入口。

A building so spectacular in size and scale that in the UK it would have taken 8,000 years to get planning permission because it might get in the way of a blade of grass.

一座在規模和尺度上都如此壯觀的建築，在英國需要 8,000 年才能獲得規劃許可，因為它可能會擋到一根草的生長。

And while most developed nations are struggling with a housing crisis because they're not building enough houses, China accidentally Built too many cities to the point they've had to quite literally demolish them.

而且，當大多數已開發國家因為沒有蓋足夠的房子而苦於住房危機時，中國卻意外地蓋了太多城市，甚至不得不真的拆掉它們。

So seeing kung fu sword wielding robots is the fucking icing on the cake of geopolitical mockery.

所以看到功夫揮舞刀劍的機器人，簡直是地緣政治嘲弄的錦上添花。

The west outsourced the physical world long ago, and now we'll pay the price for that.

西方國家早就將實體世界外包出去了，現在我們要為此付出代價。

It also doesn't help that while videos of backflipping robots go viral and the skyline of Chongqing looks like a cyberpunk wet dream over here, I read daily news stories like friend did a line of asbestos.

而且，當這裡有功夫機器人後空翻的影片爆紅，重慶的天際線看起來像賽博龐克的美夢時，我卻每天讀到朋友吸了石棉的朋友的新聞，這點也無濟於事。

But look, let's slam on the brakes here because we've gone a little bit too far.

但是，讓我們在這裡緊急煞車，因為我們有點走火入魔了。

Building and demolishing cities, after all, seems a little bit wasteful and somebody's got to pick up the tab.

畢竟，建造和拆除城市似乎有點浪費，總得有人來買單。

Meanwhile, the mantra of move fast and break things doesn't really work when it comes to national infrastructure.

同時，「快速行動、打破常規」的咒語，對於國家基礎建設來說，真的行不通。

I was very impressed when I rode the bullet trains in China back in 2011.

我對2011年在中國搭乘高鐵的經驗印象深刻。

And then several weeks later, that train tragically crashed, derailing and taking the lives of several dozen passengers.

然後幾週後，那列火車就悲劇性地發生了出軌事故，造成數十名乘客喪生。

Heck, five years ago at Christmas, I received the ultimate Christmas gift when I discovered that my beloved bath map was made out of asbestos because it had been made under rather devious circumstances in a Chinese factory.

說真的，五年前的聖誕節，我收到了最棒的聖誕禮物，因為我發現我心愛的浴簾竟然是用石棉做的，而且是在中國一家工廠裡，在相當狡猾的情況下生產出來的。

I mean, really, I should have shipped it back home.

我是說，真的，我應該把它寄回家的。

Could have chopped it up and let the masses snort it for fun.

可以把它切碎，讓大家拿來吸著玩。

It's clear the west looks upon China with a sense of fear, envy and awe.

很明顯，西方國家對中國抱持著恐懼、羨慕和敬畏的心情。

And in a way, it feels like history is kind of repeating itself with the same techno Orientalist nonsense that Japan faced in the 1980s, back when there was a sense Japan was about to take over the world.

某種程度上，感覺歷史有點在重演，就像日本在1980年代面臨的那些技術東方主義的胡說八道一樣，那時候大家覺得日本即將要稱霸世界。

So, having outsourced all of our manufacturing to China, are we really about to take a back seat in the realms of science and technology?

所以，既然我們已經把所有的製造業都外包給中國了，我們真的要在科學和技術領域退居第二嗎？

Or is it all being grossly exaggerated by a fearful Western media?

還是這一切都被充滿恐懼的西方媒體嚴重誇大了？

humanoid robots is actually quite an interesting way into it because of the striking parallels almost 40 years apart.

擬人型機器人其實是一個相當有趣的出發點，因為這兩者之間有著驚人的相似之處，儘管相隔了將近40年。

Now you might be thinking, hang on, hang on.

你現在可能會想，等等，等等。

What right have you got to discuss robots?

And the truth is this, not only are robots the secret reason that I moved to Japan in the first place, but

說實話，機器人不僅是我當初搬到日本的祕密原因，而且

I'm actually an expert on the subject because I'm one of the few people in the world who have fought in a real life, actual robot war.

我其實是這方面的專家，因為我是世界上少數幾個真正參與過機器人戰爭的人之一。

Robot wars was one of the biggest TV shows in the UK in which scruffy working class men took their children's inheritance and set fire to it on national television.

Robot wars 是英國一個非常受歡迎的電視節目，節目中，邋遢的工人階級男性會把他們子女的遺產燒掉，在全國電視上播出。

And unfortunately for me, my dad was at the front of the king.

不幸的是，我爸爸就在最前面。

When I was 10, he took all his earnings and built a 72 kilogram monstrosity using a dustbin lid and a pickaxe, like a sort of crappy TAMI stuff.

我十歲那年，他用了一個垃圾桶蓋和一把鶴嘴鋤，花了所有的積蓄，打造了一個七十二公斤的怪物，有點像那種很爛的 TAMI 機器人。

And somehow in series two, it actually came in fourth place in the entire competition.

而且不知怎麼地，在第二季，它竟然在整個比賽中獲得第四名。

To this day, I have no idea how that was achieved, but

到今天，我還是不知道這是怎麼辦到的，但是

as a kid, I got to control the axe on national television and gleefully smash it into another robot.

小時候，我可以在全國電視上操控斧頭，開心地把它砍向另一個機器人。

And in fact, the last time you can see me smiling in any photo was back then, in the year 2000, right before things reached their unfortunate and inevitable conclusion.

事實上，你最後一次看到我笑的照片，就是那時候，在 2000 年，就在事情到達不幸且不可避免的結局之前。

Because the truth was, the game was rigged from the start.

因為事實是，這場遊戲從一開始就被人操控了。

You see, while the working class contestants were building their robots with pocket money and duct tape, the BBC took license fee money and spent it on a series of terrifying, indestructible robots crafted with chainsaws and flamethrowers.

你看，當工人階級的參賽者用零用錢和膠帶建造他們的機器人時，BBC 卻拿著牌照費，花錢打造了一系列裝有電鋸和噴火器的、可怕的、無法摧毀的機器人。

The most terrifying of which was Sir Killalot, a 750 kilogram robot so obscenely brash and bold, it had been knighted.

其中最可怕的是 Sir Killalot，一個重達 750 公斤的機器人，牠如此厚顏無恥又大膽，甚至被冊封了爵位。

And in the heat of the battle, while our robot got hopelessly stuck, Sir Killal rolled over, picked it up as if it were a bag of feathers, and

在激烈的戰鬥中，當我們的機器人毫無希望地卡住時，Sir Killal 滾了過去，像抓著一袋羽毛一樣把它抓起來，然後

roasted it over an open flame like a fucking chicken.

Do you know what it's like seeing your birthright flame roasted on national television?

你知道在全國電視上看到你的傳家之火被烤焦是什麼感覺嗎？

你知道那對你來說意味著什麼嗎？

As I watched that bright pink atrocity go up in flames, a piece of me died that day.

當我看到那個亮粉色的怪物在火焰中燃燒時，我的一部分在那天也死了。

Since that day, I swore revenge on the BBC, infiltrating the organization at every level, befriending employees past and present, quietly biding my time.

從那天起，我發誓要向 BBC 報仇，滲透組織的每一個層級，與過去和現在的員工交朋友，靜靜地等待時機。

And in my desperate quest to build my own killer robot, I turned my attention east to the land of robots.

在我建造自己殺人機器人的絕望追求中，我把目光轉向東方，投向了機器人王國。

From the ashes of World War II, Japan experienced an economic miracle that turned the country into a technological powerhouse.

在第二次世界大戰的灰燼中，日本經歷了經濟奇蹟，將這個國家變成了科技強國。

Between the mid-1950s and the early 1970s, Japan's economy grew at an average rate of 10% every single year.

在 1950 年代中期到 1970 年代初期，日本的經濟每年平均增長 10%。

In 1964, the debut of the Shinkansen must have seemed like genuine witchcraft.

1964 年，新幹線的問世，看起來就像真正的巫術。

By 1980, Japan actually overtook the US to become the world's largest car manufacturer.

到了 1980 年，日本的汽車產量甚至超越了美國，成為全球最大的汽車製造國。

And soon, just about every household item was made in Japan.

很快地，幾乎所有家用電器都made in Japan。

I love looking back at 80s movies because that fear of Japan is baked into the films, Whether it's Weyland Yutani Corporation in Alien, Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard or Back to the Future.

我超愛看 80 年代的電影，因為那時候對日本的恐懼感，深深烙印在電影裡，像是《異形》裡的 Weyland Yutani 公司、《終極警網》裡的 Nakatomi Plaza，或是《回到未來》。

When Marty McFly is fired by his boss, a man known only as Mr. Fujitsu san.

當 Marty McFly 被一位只知道姓 Fujitsu 的先生開除時。

It seemed like the future very much belonged to the East.

And amidst this backdrop of breakthroughs, Honda pioneered humanoid rogue robots as early as 1986.

而在這些突破的背景下，本田早在 1986 年就開創了擬人型機器人。

By 1993, they built the Honda P1, which looks like something out of the Terminator.

到了 1993 年，他們打造了 Honda P1，看起來就像是從《魔鬼終結者》裡走出來的。

Almost 20 years before Boston Dynamics started showcasing their own robot, called Petman.

這比 Boston Dynamics 開始展示他們自己的機器人 Petman 早了將近 20 年。

Like, it's easy to forget just how impressively far Honda took this technology.

像是，我們很容易忘記本田把這項技術發展得多麼令人印象深刻。

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