When the online peanut gallery started chirping that EngineAI’s rather spiffing T800 humanoid demo was nothing more than a bit of digital smoke and mirrors, the company didn’t just issue a sternly worded memo. Oh no. They went full ‘Robohorizon Robot King’ and served up the most utterly bonkers, yet undeniably effective, rebuttal imaginable: having their metallic marvel give CEO Zhao Tongyang a proper good booting across the conference hall. This wasn’t just a product launch; it was a statement. A rather robust approach to quality assurance, designed to prove that the T800’s genuinely formidable 450 N·m of joint torque wasn’t just for show, but the real, bone-shattering deal. And, let’s be honest, it served as a rather emphatic ‘you’re next, sunshine’ to any future online sceptics. Mr. Tongyang, once he’d picked himself up and probably checked for any internal bleeding, later admitted that without his protective kit, he’d have been looking at a good few weeks in plaster, if not worse. Now that’s how you silence the digital doubters.
