China’s robot revolution may not arrive in the way you expect

Electric vehicles generally travel abroad as finished, branded products. Chinese robotics could spread differently Unitree is a leading example of the first approach. Its strength in locomotion and motion control has helped push Chinese humanoids forward at remarkable speed, yet founder Wang Xingxing has also been candid about the software challenge ahead. He said last month that a breakthrough allowing robots to handle unfamiliar environments and tasks could come in two or three years in an optimistic case, or it could take as long as a decade.

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