Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embedding the technology into physical systems—an idea called embodied AI—was a key facet of China’s latest five-year plan, and companies here are already world leaders in humanoids. Nearly 90% of the…
In a groundbreaking achievement at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, Tiangong Ultra, a Chinese humanoid robot, astonishingly ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, surpassing the iconic record held by Usain Bolt.
