Besides those performing tasks, the robots on display include ones that play soccer or Chinese chess, as well as historical figures from scientists Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton to Li Bai, considered one of China's greatest poets. Robots, showing perhaps a humanlike tendency, are not infallible.

China opened its first full-scale shopping center dedicated entirely to robots on Friday, as part of a broader push to bring robotics from research labs into people’s homes.

This humanoid is different from incubators for premature infants in that it is set to mimic the entire process of pregnancy, starting right from conception to birth. The baby for the entire gestation period will grow and be nurtured in the tech womb of this humanoid.

Over 500 robots competed in soccer, boxing, and running. In many cases, gravity was the real winner. This week, China’s leading robotics minds gathered in Beijing for a hotly-anticipated, Olympics-style event dubbed the world’s first “ Humanoid Robot Games. ”

MagicLab's flagship humanoid robot shows of its impressive pulling power with new 551 pound, three-man, drag showcase.

In an interview with the People’s Daily, Wang Xingxing predicts that significant progress in the sector will arrive in three to five years.

Photo/Xinhua] The four-day 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games — the world's first comprehensive event featuring humanoid robots as the main participants — starts in Beijing on Thursday under the slogan "racing towards a shared intelligent future".

Humanoid robot mall in Beijing will sell over 100 types of robots from up to 200 brands and features a robot-themed restaurant, as well as an entertainment zone.