I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1141907/dispatch-shanghai-humanoid-robot-carnival
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…
