The Spring Festival Gala is a showcase both of China’s cultural riches and its technological might. The four-hour state television programme, staged in Beijing on the eve of each Lunar New Year, often ...

Shanghai-based Agibot is probably the largest humanoid robot maker in the world. The company shipped roughly 5,100 units in 2025 — a 39% share of the global market — and crossed 10,000 cumulative ...

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...

From nunchaku-wielding humanoids to synchronized “drunken boxing” routines, machines from four Chinese robotics firms dominated this year’s Spring Festival Gala on Monday, with more than a dozen ...

In December 2025, the biggest battery maker in the world, CATL, started what it calls the world’s first large-scale deployment of robots in its Luoyang, China factory. Last week, the State Grid ...