{"id":1033852,"date":"2026-09-08T07:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033852"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:03:24","slug":"from-dance-floor-to-war-china-readies-humanoid-robots-for-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/08\/from-dance-floor-to-war-china-readies-humanoid-robots-for-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"From dance floor to war: China readies humanoid robots for combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, robots jumped, boxed and danced. Some fleet-footed bots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 meters. Spectators cheered the machines&#8217; improving capabilities and their meme-worthy stumbles. <\/p>\n<p>Two days after the Games ended, the People&#8217;s Liberation Army&#8217;s official newspaper drew its \u200bown conclusions from the show. The PLA Daily called for researchers to accelerate the transfer of cutting-edge technologies from \u200blaboratories to military training grounds for robotic &#8220;combatants.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, robots jumped, boxed and danced. Some fleet-footed bots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 meters. Spectators cheered the machines&#8217; improving capabilities and their meme-worthy stumbles. Two days after the Games ended, the People&#8217;s Liberation Army&#8217;s official newspaper drew its \u200bown conclusions from the show. The PLA Daily called for researchers to accelerate the transfer of cutting-edge technologies from \u200blaboratories to military training grounds for robotic &#8220;combatants.&#8221;<\/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-1033852","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\/1033852","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=1033852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033872,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033852\/revisions\/1033872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}