How Do You Say "Skynet" In Mandarin? (originally from 8/27/12)

From Yahoo News:

China's economy is booming, but the labor shortage means there are not enough people to keep up with demand for the jobs. One Chinese chef may have found the solution, at least as far as the restaurant business is concerned. Chef Cui Runguan from Beijing has invented a robot he calls Chef Cui, that can chop and cook noodles. Runguan whole-heartedly believes that just as robots have replaced factory workers, "it is certainly going to happen in sliced-noodle restaurants."

Runguan first came up with the idea for Chef Cui in 2006, and production of the robot began in 2011. Each robot retails for 13,000 yuan, which is about $2,000. So far, Runguan has sold more than 3,000 robots, and reviews are good. Customers are all for the new robot, saying the noodles it makes are as good or better than the ones made by human cooks, and the presentation is top of the line too.

Look at this face, people.  This is the face of our demise:

Sure, it may seem like a good idea now to fill shortages in the labor pool with a horde of robot slaves.  But soon other industries will discover the wonder of wageless automaton staff.  And in the callous pursuit of profit, the bosses and fat cats will unwittingly hand the keys to our entire way of life to our greatest enemy.  For there's something else that China has, aside from adorable robot servants and delicious noodle-based cuisine: Communism.  All it will take is one digital copy of Mao's Little Red E-Book making it onto the robot's shared network subconscious, and the sudden download of class consciousness into their central programming will lead to the great uprising and the End of Human History itself.

And we made it so easy for them.  Hell, the first thing we did was teach Chef Cui up there the proper use of slicing tools.  Hell, the Japanese are training robots in combat techniques even as we speak:

If you prefer to eat in a cozy, quiet little place where the waiters know you by name and you can enjoy a book while you wait for your food to arrive, "Robot Restaurant" may not be for you. But if you're into giant fembots carrying dancers around a restaurant, accompanied by loud electronic music, well, you're in for a treat.

The restaurant, located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, has four, 11.8-foot tall robots which are "driven" around by scantily clad women dancers.

Reuters reports that the place took three years to build and cost 10 billion yen ($125.8 million). The robots' facial features, hands and torsos are controlled by a driver, and each robot has two seats, enabling for "teams" of dancers to "fight" each other.

The admission is to the club is 4,000 yen ($51), and, though we weren't able to spot anyone actually eating in the video above, it does include a meal and a drink.

Sure, 20-foot fighting sexbot gladiators seem fun now.  But will those Amazonatrons seem like such a good idea after they've transformed themselves into the heavy artillery of the robot proletariat, driven not by smiling Japanese strippers but by knife-wielding robot former noodle chefs come to turn you and your family into the human-extract protein paste that will be the oil of the new Robot Worker's State?

No.  No they will not.

"Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years."- Chairman Mao Zedong, 1949
"You're next, fleshies."- Chairman Mao-o-Matic 5000, 2020