The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

Developed by China’s massive technology conglomerate, Midea Group, the robot has a stable vertical-lifting system and full 360-degree in-place rotation. It moves on a wheeled chassis, making it easy ...

A Chinese-built humanoid robot has just walked itself into the record books, completing a 66-mile trek that tested the limits of machine endurance as much as engineering pride. The feat, carried out ...

Robots can do a lot these days. Cleaning houses, building machines, helping doctors in surgery, and now, a scientist based out of China is working on a robot that can carry a human fetus to term. The ...

EngineAI Robotics, a Chinese startup, has developed a powerful robot, T800, in just two years that challenges Elon Musk’s ...

But the tone and pizzazz of IREX has always been provided by the humanoids. It’s a somehow thrilling spectacle to see robots ...

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...

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