People aged 65 and older already make up about 15 percent of its 1.4 billion citizens, according to United Nations data.

About 500 robot athletes from 16 countries competed in Beijing as the United States and China race each other to shape the ...

Ahead of a military parade in Beijing on September 3, a video of armed robots marching in unison was shared in social media posts falsely claiming it showed a rehearsal for the event marking 80 years ...

Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. showcased its first humanoid robot on Thursday, formally joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies to compete with the US in commercialising frontier technology.

A robot drew cheers from the packed crowd at China’s inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games — until it spectacularly face-planted and had to be hauled off stage by two real people. The pratfall during ...

Chinese scientists have reportedly unveiled plans for the world’s first humanoid robot capable of carrying a pregnancy to term. Led by Dr. Zhang Qifeng of Kaiwa Technology in Guangzhou, the project is ...

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. Robots competed in ...

R1 is Ant Group’s latest move into humanoid robotics, which can tackle real-world tasks like cooking, guiding visitors and sorting medicines ...

The U.S. and China are racing to build humanoid robots capable of performing many daily tasks – but the complexity of home and business environments makes that challenging.

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 ...

BEIJING — They aren’t the most graceful athletes, or the fastest. But they’re learning. From Friday to Sunday, human handlers from 16 countries put about 500 bipedal robots through various motions to ...

280 teams from 16 countries compete in Beijing robot games Games provide data for practical robot applications, organisers say China invests billions in robotics amid tech competition with U.S BEIJING ...