Stanley O'Shea

Author name: Stanley O'Shea

mind, media

Top 5 Robots from the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai — Ranked by YouTube Views

Plus: My personal favorite and what it might say about us. Last month, I visited an AI exhibition in Shanghai and captured exciting moments in Shorts. (Technically, it was called a conference, but as a casual one-day visitor, I didn’t attend those big-picture talks.) My focus was on humanoid robotics and automation, instead of AI software or systems. While I had my personal favorite, it was the viewers of my YouTube channel who determined the real ranking. Based on view counts alone, here are the top 5 robots they watched the most. Let’s begin. #5 Robot dogs that can climb and jump at World Artificial Intelligence Conference Shanghai 2025 pt.1 brand: DeepRobotics I saw this impressive robotic dog while attending the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. The level of motion control and suspension was truly fascinating to witness in person. They can work as firefighters in place of human beings. How do you feel about these robots? Are you in awe or are you scared? Do you want a pet like this at home? #4 robot dog at WAIC SHANGHAI 2025 brand: Hanvon, an IT company famous for language processing Do you prefer a robotic pet like this or do you still want an organic pet? Do you think your dog at home would get along with a robot like this? How much are you willing to pay for this dog? I’m by no means a dog lover in real life, but I have no issue with having a dog like this. Cute. No better word for it. #3 Robot drummer at World Artificial Intelligence Conference Shanghai 2025 Will you be willing to pay for a concert performed solely by robots? The performance was only available twice a day, and I wasn’t able to shoot the video. However, I had another instrument-related video in my playlist, which you can check out. That was mind-blowing too. #2 Male robot dancer falls & stands up again at World Artificial Intelligence Conference Shanghai 2025 Dancing on his own feet is the real challenge. They say failure is the mother of success. We can’t grow without failure. The same applies to robots. Why did this video go viral? The answer is anthropomorphism. Humans love seeing non-humans show vulnerability and resilience. This mirrors the “fall and rise” narrative so ingrained in our stories and myths. We empathize even with machines when they mimic our own struggles. Insertion Before we reveal the No.1 video, let me share one video that appeals to me personally, although there is still room for development before we can expect it to be truly applicable in daily life. Who wants a robot like this at home? This is literally my favorite model in this exhibition. God knows how much I hate folding my laundry. Someone commented that it’s slower than his great grandma. Well, let’s be patient. Robot vacuum cleaners are slow too. They will get better. #1 Robot workers on an assembly line at World Artificial Intelligence Conference Shanghai 2025 This video was the crowd’s clear favorite. This company is said to be a state-owned tech venture in Shanghai. Hence, the scale and professionalism. Notably, this video has gained far more “dislikes” than other videos. Possible psychological analysis will be: The responses reflect hopes and fears about our shared future. The show taps into awe and admiration for human ingenuity—robots doing precise, useful work appeals to both efficiency geeks and those dreaming of a future with fewer menial tasks for humans. However, People hate to be replaced by robots. It is so real that it poses an imminent threat. Bonus: Besides the robots, I was also able to try on some smart glasses( AR glasses or AI glasses) at this conference. The 3 major brands I saw people queuing up for were XREAL, Rokid, and Halliday. Unfortunately, I’m more inclined to buy clip-on lenses than full glasses at this point. I just want to see lyrics projected in front of my eyeglasses when listening to Spotify or singing karaoke on Smule. Interestingly, I saw the CEO of XREAL at their booth on that day. I encourage you to watch this interview on Bloomberg (search “Bloomberg XREAL” on YouTube). Let me know your favorite robot in this series, too. Please go to my YouTube playlist to see all of them. Please subscribe to my newsletter at the bottom of this website if you’re interested in getting updates. My website covers a variety of stuff, and they are all closely connected to my real life. Yes, even including the manga series I write. Thanks for your attention.

health, memoir

Adventures with the Medical Ninjas – Episode N1 Dr. Cold and His White Guns

(Last visit from one month ago) (one month later) Me: Dr. Cold, the ointment infused with chakra you put on last time was amazing — my left side doesn’t hurt anymore. I probably don’t need your “Water-Style plus Metal-Style” treatment. Just give me more ointment infused with chakra.Dr. Cold: Is that so? Then we’ll do one session of “Air-Style” on the right side.I thought to myself: Finally — but somehow it all feels a little too easy.He said: Let’s prescribe a few more oral meds.Me: Oh, no — I barely took the last mind-soothing powder. The mind-lifting pill helped a bit, but I later realized my lesion is actually higher up; it isn’t really an illusion spell. Besides, those ingredients are toxic; you can’t take much. AI says at most 20 days.He said: Toxic? Who said that?Me (thinking): ChatGPT checked it — it said it’s highly toxic.He said: That dose is tiny, it’s fine.I thought to myself: Are you ignorant or pretending to be? (At the Pharmacy) Me: Finally found it—didn’t know there’s such a tiny pharmacy on this floor. I even went all the way to the lobby on the first floor.The pharmacists: People requested to have one here. Going up and down is too much trouble. But we do have fewer types of medicine here.Me: Then why did I get my prescription from the first floor last time?The pharmacists: The doctor can choose that in the prescribing system.Me: You really have so few medicines here. Downstairs they have smart pharmacies—AI plus conveyor belts deliver meds straight to the pharmacist. They can sit all day without getting up.The pharmacists: You know that smart equipment costs millions, right?Me: Yeah, even all your salaries combined for a few years wouldn’t reach that.The pharmacists: Haha, exactly. We’re the more cost-effective option. (In the treatment room) He said: Sit up straight. I’m going to summon my ranged weapons. Watch closely — these are called mind-penetrating guns. Start telling me when you feel anything. Me: Ahhhh — your guns look 3D-printed, like those insoles sold online.He: No way. This is ancestral. I’m the ninth-generation heir. The guns look the same, but each generation uses different bullets. The bullets are high-density chakra — invisible to human eyes but birds can see them.Me: Ahhh…ahhh…ahhh…He: Moreover, these bullets can penetrate soft tissue and act directly on neurons in your brain — cranial nerves, spinal nerves, sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves — a full 3D approach to remove hallucinations.I thought to myself: Wow — that sounds like precision pseudoscience, just like the insole industry, according to ChatGPT.He said: Forgot to say — each gun contains 2,000 rounds, and the human body can handle at most 4,000 rounds a day. We’ve already used up one gun; you must hold on for the rest of the bullets. Don’t avoid it; don’t move.Me: You know how to run a business — you shot me with two guns at once and used them up in two minutes. I bet each round costs a lot.He said: I don’t usually do this special procedure — it wastes my chakra and takes time. If it weren’t for your long medical history, I’d just prescribe several boxes of mind-soothing powder and mind-lifting pill. Take them for months and you’d be fine. You young people don’t appreciate what you have — you get medicine and don’t even take it. In our day, not a single grain of rice was left, let alone medicine.Me: Ah…ah…ahhh…ah…ahhh…ahHe: Are you sending Morse code?Me: You noticed that. I learned that from the movie Parasite.He: Since you’re already here, begging won’t help. Okay, this session’s over. Hurry off the bed — I’ve got the next patient. Me: Your guns look scary but it didn’t hurt that much. Last year Dr. Good upstairs told me never to try the mind-penetrating guns — it’d be excruciating.He: Haha — can you trust him? He’s famous in this hospital for attacking other departments’ procedures.Me: Right, he even told me Dr. Dreamer’s patients sneaked over to his ward in the morning for treatment. Now I think maybe he fished those patients when he did rounds at Dr. Dreamer’s place — like handing out flyers.I thought to myself: Just like a Taiwanese scholar Bo Yang wrote — these people love infighting. When the Japanese came, a few turned traitor to save their families and harmed those around them.Me: By the way, what chakra are the Air-Style bullets made of?He: Water and Earth. I can’t tell you more — otherwise we won’t finish today’s patients.I turned and saw the wall full of bullet holes.Me: Wow — so many. Must have accumulated for years. Has that machine ever been calibrated?He lifted the gun: Shut up and get out. I thought to myself: How can people swallow that toxic mind-lifting pill? He says mix it with food — does that really reduce toxicity? He’s so blindly optimistic — is the medicine just a placebo? But now I know the ingredient is toxic; even if it’s a placebo, it’s a placebo that makes me more anxious.Me: Dr. Cold, how about next time I send you a red packet and you stop prescribing mind-soothing powder and mind-lifting pill?He said: What? A red packet? You’re trying to poison me! I truly wish you well — I want you to recover.Me: I appreciate your kindness. 😭 さようなら (farewell)~ Full video on Youtube (music copyright belongs to the singer-songwriter) This is a creative project inspired by the traditions of Eastern shonen manga and Western comics and cinematic storytelling.All characters, abilities, and world elements are original creations.Any similarities to existing works are coincidental or intended as respectful homage, without any claim of ownership or affiliation.

Inside the hospital ward, Dr Sweet handed Patrick a bottle of Suzhou-style mung bean soup.
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Adventures with the Medical Ninjas – Episode 06A: Dr. Sweet and the Suzhou-Style Mung Bean Soup Part 1

Part 1: After Abigail went home, I wondered who the next doctor would be to come and look after me. It turned out to be Dr. Sweet—a familiar face. Dr. Sweet: “Whoa, how’d you get yourself into such a mess?”  Me: “I just had an epic battle with Dr. Superior. Barely got out alive.”  Dr. Sweet: “You must be starving now, huh?”  Me: “Not too bad. Abigail just fed me some dumplings, so you don’t have to buy food for me.”  Dr. Sweet: “Then how about I bring you a drink tomorrow?”  Me: “What kind? If it’s one of those low-cost drinks like Starbucks, please don’t waste your money.”  Dr. Sweet: “Haha, you’ll see tomorrow.” (The next day) Dr. Sweet brought me a mysterious-looking drink. Me: “What the heck is this? Looks like something you’d use to filter urine on a deserted island. Why is it layered like this?”  Dr. Sweet: “My friend, this is called Suzhou-style green mung bean soup!” Me: “Oh come on, it’s just mung bean soup. What’s so special about Suzhou’s version?”  Dr. Sweet: “It’s different. It has a lot of ingredients.”  Me: “Wait a second, Dr. Sweet—are you from Suzhou?” Dr. Sweet: ” I will not tell you. That’s my privacy.” Me: “Then why insist on getting Suzhou-style mung bean soup for me?”  Dr. Sweet: “Because you pulled off a major achievement. You’re now a hero in the eyes of all the female staff at our hospital.”  Me: “Nani? But Abigail said she was really upset because I killed her boss.”  Dr. Sweet: “Well, she had been with Dr. Superior for many years. He really valued her and even asked Dr. Divine to help get her citizenship here. Otherwise, with her education level, it wouldn’t have been possible.”  Me: “I suppose her presence posed a threat to Radiology, Imaging, and Ultrasound departments?”  Dr. Sweet: “Not really. Dr. Superior wasn’t on good terms with those departments anyway. He’d often say their tools were useless and that everything ultimately depended on his diagnosis. When that got back to the department heads, they banded together to get back at him—lowering image resolution, stuffing reports with Latin or Greek jargon to make things harder for him, and always ending with a sarcastic ‘please correlate clinically.’ One time, they even drew an ASCII phoenix in the report to mock him as a ‘Phoenix Man.’”  Me: “Well then, no wonder he had to hire someone with Byakugan abilities.”  Dr. Sweet: “Exactly. That’s why you have to treat people right.”  Me: “Still… he was a colleague. Why are you all so happy he’s dead?” Dr. Sweet: “Because… actually, let’s talk about it tomorrow. Oh right—I just realized this mung bean soup seems to be missing an ingredient. No wonder you said it looks like a water filter. I’ll bring you another bottle tomorrow. Just drink this one for now. Don’t worry, it’s safe. I even asked them to add probiotics and prebiotics. All that’s missing is inactivated bacteria!”  Me: “Thanks, I appreciate it. But really, don’t spend so much on me.”  Dr. Sweet: “No problem at all. I’m taking care of you on behalf of dozens of female comrades. You deserve good food and drinks these days.” I thought to myself: What kind of negative figure was Dr. Superior in this hospital anyway? Wasn’t he a popular internet-famous doctor with a 4.7-star rating online? (The next day) Dr. Sweet brought another bottle of Suzhou-style mung bean soup. Dr. Sweet: “Look carefully—I told the shop owner today to load it up properly, even to make up for yesterday.”  Me: “This really looks more like a drink now. What’s that colorful stuff on top? Looks like what we had on steamed buns as kids.”  Dr. Sweet: “ChatGPT says it’s made from radish, probably with added coloring.” Me: “Alright… the bottom layer is glutinous rice, right?”  Dr. Sweet: “That’s right. Give it a good shake before drinking—shake shake shake—like doing an organic chemistry experiment or like that music video of Taylor Swift!”  Me: “Tastes surprisingly good, haha.”  Dr. Sweet: “Glad you like it.”  Me: “So, can you finally tell me why you’re so happy about Dr. Superior’s death?” Dr. Sweet: ” I knew you’d interrogate me. Be careful—you might die for knowing too much.”  Me: “Don’t worry. I’ve got nine lives. My original family already killed off seven. I’ve still got two left.”  Dr. Sweet: “You really think you are cat, don’t you?” End of Part 1 (to be continued) This project is currently paused due to my busy schedule. Will release more over time but much less text will be provided. (08-11-2025) This is a creative project inspired by the traditions of Eastern shonen manga and Western comics and cinematic storytelling.All characters, abilities, and world elements are original creations.Any similarities to existing works are coincidental or intended as respectful homage, without any claim of ownership or affiliation.

A well-dressed young man with many arms rowing a boat in his dream
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Integration: Mind, Memoir, Media

[New site, new blog] For a long time, I’ve been struggling with my online identity: as a person with an interdisciplinary STEM background, I have published a memoir as a crucial project after leaving both America and academia, but I don’t consider myself a literary writer by any sense. I’ve been creative throughout my life, doing songwriting for a decade, and now making mobile-based audiovisual short videos after getting RSI, but I still reject formal titles like “composer” or “artist”. It was imperative that I should connect these elements of life, and figure out a way to reconcile different dimensions of my creative skills on one platform; otherwise, I would have to set up multiple websites and multiple social account handles, and eventually get exhausted, if not go crazy. (Matthew McConaughey explained why it wouldn’t work in his memoir Greenlights.) Here we come, on this green-themed website. It’s not a typical author website, but one with the potential to evolve. I have migrated my old Substack articles to this platform, for easier management from now on. Now this blog section on my website will serve the following functions: For example(s), check out the following YouTube playlists on my channel: I wish I had time to upload everything I have in store, but I need to balance different lines of work and manage/investigate my health issues in the meantime. Public comments under my posts and videos are very welcome. If you go on my social media channels (see bottom of this website) to like, comment, share, and subscribe,  that’s going to help more people discover my work, help yourself show your good taste, and perhaps help the world become a better place in your standard. Currently, my prioritized platforms for creative works are YouTube (Google) and Instagram (Meta). I will distribute the content to more platforms if I have extra energy. If you have any suggestions for products and services, you can also let me know. (No crypto hehe). For collaboration, please go through the contact page of this website. Thank you in advance. Please check out all 3 versions of my psychological memoir The Snowy Battlefield of Ohio, through this website (book section). They each have unique strengths. My team put a lot of effort into each version. The audiobook distribution did not land on Amazon or Audible this time, unfortunately. I hope you can still enjoy other platforms like Apple, Google Play, Barnes & Noble, Spotify, etc. Here is the trailer: This playlist BELOW has small clips of my extension articles for the book. Snowy Memoir Note that I only personally discuss extension articles with people who have already read the main book, to show respect for both parties’ time. I do not discuss sensitive topics related to America with those who have never lived in America or do not want to live in America. These are life lessons I have accumulated through life. Thank you for your understanding. I have to emphasize that at this point, as a person, on or off this website: What I can provide is my personal opinions and general recommendations if available. More details will be given on the “Services” page of this website. At the end of this post, I’d like to thank my professor David Huron for his education and guidance during my stay at Ohio State. He passed away earlier this month, which is a great loss to the field of music cognition. I was deeply enlightened by his book Sweet Anticipation as a college student. June 17, 2025