{"id":1029596,"date":"2026-08-19T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029596"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:29:06","slug":"beyond-marathons-and-backflips-chinas-robots-face-a-commercial-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/beyond-marathons-and-backflips-chinas-robots-face-a-commercial-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond marathons and backflips, China&#8217;s robots face a commercial test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s humanoid robot makers have spent the past two years dazzling investors with machines that can breakdance, throw punches and \u200beven set marathon records. This week in Beijing, they face \u200ba tougher test in proving their inventions can work reliably to generate economic value. <\/p>\n<p>More than 300 companies are expected at \u200bthe World Robot Conference from Wednesday through Sunday, showcasing over 2,000 exhibits and launching more than 150 products, according to Beijing authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s humanoid robot makers have spent the past two years dazzling investors with machines that can breakdance, throw punches and \u200beven set marathon records. This week in Beijing, they face \u200ba tougher test in proving their inventions can work reliably to generate economic value. More than 300 companies are expected at \u200bthe World Robot Conference from Wednesday through Sunday, showcasing over 2,000 exhibits and launching more than 150 products, according to Beijing authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029616,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029596\/revisions\/1029616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}