China has launched the production of humanoid robot soldiers, say Internet users who share alleged training videos of these machines. These are AI-created videos deceptively misused.
Published on: 02/20/2026 - 6:47 p.m.
Chinese dancing robots become killing machines? They caused a sensation during the gala for the Spring Festival, the lunar new year in China, by delivering a remarkable kungfu choreography during the show broadcast on Chinese television. Two videos posted on social networks since February 19 reveal a much less peaceful use of G1 robots, the flagship humanoid robot model from the Chinese robotics company Unitree Robotics. According to these videos, the machines were filmed in military training using assault rifles. These filmed sequences are in fact fake.
Robots on a shooting range where magazines appear out of nowhere
A first video seen more than 1.9 million times on We would see G1 robots, recognizable by the blue neon lighting their faces, practicing handling assault rifles.
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However, as disinformation researcher Tal Hagin also noted, several anomalies in this video prove that this video was generated by artificial intelligence.
At the 11th second we notice that on a robot's assault rifle, the valve which protects the bullet ejection window remains closed during shots. This cover, which serves to protect the bullet ejection mechanism from humidity and dust, must open when bullets are fired to allow the evacuation of the cases. In the video, the flap remains closed or starts flashing without ejecting shell casings.
Another anomaly, at the 27th second a robot makes a charger appear out of nowhere in its hand when it begins to reload its weapon.
A training course where obstacles appear as if by magic
Another video seen more than a million times on X showing robot soldiers seems even more spectacular. It shows G1 robots exercising in a training and obstacle course. This video appears particularly realistic: it apparently does not display the visual defects that one expects when analyzing an AI-generated video, such as problems with anatomy or object distortion.
However, it is indeed a video created by AI. To detect anomalies, you must compare each scene of the video with the previous one, in order to spot differences. So around the 32nd second, a robot dog jumps over a wooden panel in front of a pile of sandbags. But this wooden panel was not present at the 30th second in the previous scene which showed this same pile of sandbags with a wider shot. The AI therefore created an object that did not exist.
Videos from an AI-generated video creator account
Where do these videos come from? It is possible to find their author thanks to the watermark displayed in the video of the training course, a certain "oukanghong", on the Chinese online video site Bilibili (here and there). The internet user appears to specialize in creating AI-generated robot videos.
The video of the training course therefore carries a note warning that “the video uses artificial intelligence synthesis technology”.
Commenting on his video, oukanghong complains about having seen his videos hijacked:
“People are spreading my video outside by making up rumors and twisting it to spread false information.”
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