China's humanoid robot firms make up half of exhibitors at CES 2026

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• Incipient8647@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  China Shock 2.0. The coastal tides are retreating before our eyes, but still a large chunk of the general population believes China only makes cheap crap.

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• MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For some reason I’m confident the chinese robots are better than the american ones.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This was at CES, it’s basically one massive advertisement for trendy bs. Most of the american firms represented were there for AI, since the push for consumer robotics is mostly a dying fad in the US and AI is the hot new thi f.

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  • miseducator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Doesn’t seem like the Chinese ones are as advanced as Atlas from Boston Dynamics. Check this fella out!

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Which is now owned by Hyundai.

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    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unitree, even judging from dance/kung fu demos, but also for price and availability seems far ahead. 10k humanoid shipments in 2025. Agibot about the same volume. They both have open development environments, afaiu. Atlas $160k vapourware future price, or especially mechahitler controlled $250k price on closed systems will be hard sales compared to expected Chinese/Unitree progress.

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5GphCrjx98

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    • Substance_P@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wasn’t it been controlled by a person in the audience? We need a “RoboCop” style demonstration for us to know what autonomous looks like.

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  • NEILSON_MANDALA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    everyone says the chinese bots are superior as you don’t ask them what happened in tiananmen square in 1989

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    • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does Tiananmen Square have anything to do with Chinas ability to create robots?

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• thenoirwolfess@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t Chinese firms make >55% of everything?

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  China really shouldn’t be working so hard to make minimum labor equal in every country, it is the only thing giving them an advantage over the USA

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  • CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it is the only thing giving them an advantage over the USA

    That’s really not true at all anymore. China is an absolute manufacturing powerhouse. Almost all of the industry that used to be the USA’s strength in the ‘50s is China’s strength now.

    They haven’t been the cheapest labor anymore for a while now and they don’t need to be.

    Don’t get me wrong, the USA has other, newer strengths now — tech and design, among others. But they do appear to be throwing them away and ceding to others — especially China — as hard and fast as they can.

    On the other hand, humanoid shape for robots seems like an extreme waste of technical complexity and cost, so in my opinion this particular article is mostly showing up how China is also beating the USA at being faddish and dumb following tech fashion.

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    • Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Japan used to make subpar shit in the 70s too before they up their quality the decades after.

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