China is trying to address a key bottleneck in its national push for embodied artificial intelligence by employing human ...

This robot surrogate was presented at the 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing, revealing a full-sized humanoid that can replicate the entire process, from conception to delivery. It sounds ...

On the outskirts of Beijing, young Chinese entrepreneur Cheng Hao sits on an indoor soccer pitch – but this turf isn’t for humans. It’s where engineers working for his start-up, Booster Robotics, ...

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 ...

China is on the way to develop the world’s first artificial surrogate pregnancy robot capable of growing a baby to term and providing a foetus with all the nutrients it needs through a "hose". Some ...

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 ...

Remotely operated by their human teams, the robots will be tested for agility and skill competing in 26 events like football, martial arts, gymnastics, and track and field events like running and a ...

The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements in robotics. Limitations, too. By Yan Zhuang There’s a very real concern that robots could ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...