{"id":1032607,"date":"2026-09-02T08:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032607"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:14:12","slug":"beyond-dancing-and-boxing-inside-chinas-race-to-turn-humanoid-robots-into-industrial-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/beyond-dancing-and-boxing-inside-chinas-race-to-turn-humanoid-robots-into-industrial-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond dancing and boxing: Inside China\u2019s race to turn humanoid robots into industrial workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s humanoid robots are getting very good at putting on a show. They can sprint, dance, box, play football and perform feats that would have sounded improbable only a few years ago. But behind the viral videos and increasingly eye-catching demonstrations lies a far more consequential experiment: China is trying to figure out whether these machines can move from spectacle to something the economy can actually use. <\/p>\n<p>That question is becoming harder to dismiss as a futuristic one. What China is building is no longer confined to isolated laboratory prototypes or choreographed tech demos; the scale of participation, investment and experimentation suggests an industry being pushed rapidly towards the mainstream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s humanoid robots are getting very good at putting on a show. They can sprint, dance, box, play football and perform feats that would have sounded improbable only a few years ago. But behind the viral videos and increasingly eye-catching demonstrations lies a far more consequential experiment: China is trying to figure out whether these machines can move from spectacle to something the economy can actually use. That question is becoming harder to dismiss as a futuristic one. What China is building is no longer confined to isolated laboratory prototypes or choreographed tech demos; the scale of participation, investment and [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032607","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=1032607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032651,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032607\/revisions\/1032651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}