{"id":993297,"date":"2026-02-18T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993297"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:31:03","slug":"chinas-humanoid-robots-take-centre-stage-for-lunar-new-year-showtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/chinas-humanoid-robots-take-centre-stage-for-lunar-new-year-showtime\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s humanoid robots take centre stage for Lunar New Year showtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s most-watched TV show, the annual CCTV Spring Festival gala, on Monday showcased the country&#8217;s cutting-edge industrial policy and Beijing&#8217;s push to dominate humanoid robots and the future of manufacturing. <\/p>\n<p>Four rising humanoid robot startups &#8211; Unitree Robotics, Galbot, Noetix and MagicLab &#8211; demonstrated their products at the gala, a televised event and touchstone for China comparable to the Super Bowl for the \u200cUnited States. <\/p>\n<p>The programme&#8217;s first \u2060three sketches \u2060prominently featured humanoid robots, including a lengthy martial arts demonstration where over a dozen Unitree humanoids performed sophisticated fight sequences waving swords, poles and nunchucks in close proximity to human children performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s most-watched TV show, the annual CCTV Spring Festival gala, on Monday showcased the country&#8217;s cutting-edge industrial policy and Beijing&#8217;s push to dominate humanoid robots and the future of manufacturing. Four rising humanoid robot startups &#8211; Unitree Robotics, Galbot, Noetix and MagicLab &#8211; demonstrated their products at the gala, a televised event and touchstone for China comparable to the Super Bowl for the \u200cUnited States. The programme&#8217;s first \u2060three sketches \u2060prominently featured humanoid robots, including a lengthy martial arts demonstration where over a dozen Unitree humanoids performed sophisticated fight sequences waving swords, poles and nunchucks in close proximity to human [&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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993297","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\/993297","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=993297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}