BEIJING (AP) — A high-tech district in the Chinese capital is opening an all-service robot store on Friday to push a national drive to develop humanoid robots. From plucking boxes off a pharmacy shelf ...

We can surely all agree there's absolutely nothing to be concerned about when it comes to robots and AI. So, it makes perfect sense to hold what's claimed to be the world's first martial arts ...

AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. When the robot is asked if it wants to play dice, it can interpret the question and jump into action – pressing the button on an automatic dice ...

The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China’s technology. But the real ...

BEIJING (AP) — While China's men's soccer team hasn't generated much excitement in recent years, humanoid robot teams have won over fans in Beijing based more on the AI technology involved than any ...

You might have noticed that humanoid robots are having a bit of a moment. From Tesla’s Optimus to Figure AI’s Figure 02, these machines are no longer just science fiction – they’re walking, and in ...

In mid-August, Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval – the “Ice Ribbon” built for the 2022 Winter Olympics – hosted a new kind of sporting event. For four days, more than 500 humanoid robots from 16 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday, looking to showcase its advances in artificial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries.

In August 2025, a rumor began to spread that a "pregnancy robot" was in development in China. Social media posts and articles circulated with different AI-generated images of such a robot, including ...