Can everyone dial it down a little with the enthusiasm for humanoid robots that can’t even do anything useful yet? You’re scaring the Chinese economy.

On Thursday, three Bloomberg reporters based in Beijing reported on an usual government announcement from China’s economic central planning department, the National Development and Reform Commission (it has no U.S. equivalent, so don’t even ask): the commission had noticed a pattern of dozens upon dozens of Chinese firms pushing out humanoid robots that do essentially nothing, and do it in pretty much the same way.

Agency spokeswoman Li Chao, Bloomberg said, expressed worry that this wave of robots was in danger of steering smart people away from actual, valuable research.

China seems to be noticing what you’ve probably already noticed:

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