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China’s AI Robot Craze Turns Founder Of 3D Vision Camera Maker Into Billionaire

Shares of Shenzhen-based Orbbec have surged more than 315% over the past year, propelling Howard Huang, its 45-year-old ...
China Daily Global Edition

Chinese engineers design innovative robot that takes off like a bird

XI'AN -- In a breakthrough for bio-inspired robotics, a team of Chinese engineers has designed a robot that flaps its wings ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

'Humans hit me': Video shows China's humanoid robot endure insane 'violence test'

Unitree’s G1 robot endured repeated shoves in a YouTube “violence test,” stunning viewers with its ability to bounce back ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Bumblebee: China’s humanoid robot nails straight-knee walk with hybrid actuator design

This Chinese humanoid robot combines language understanding with a disturbance-resistant gait, pointing to the future of ...
The National Interest

Beijing’s “Robot Army” Isn’t Science Fiction. It’s Already Here.

Failing to take the robotics race seriously means watching Beijing set the rules of the automated economy, and risks leaving American power to rust.
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Humanoid robot that won marathon now laces up as sneaker tester in China

Tien Kung, also known as Tiangong, is a 1.7-meter-tall humanoid developed by UBTech Robotics and the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre (X-Humanoid). It runs at 10–12 km/h across stairs, slopes, ...

The AI-powered humanoid robots coming for your job (or at least your housework)

Figure AI said it had raised more than $1 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $39 billion, making it one of ...