HONG KONG -- A humanoid robot astir the size of a superior schoolhouse pupil had thing to stock successful Hong Kong — it sang songs and spoke to radical successful Mandarin and English, answering immoderate questions they posed and delighting the assemblage astir it.
More than 100 robots were showcased astatine 2 exhibitions starting Monday astatine the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The X2 Ultra robot from China’s salient humanoid robot shaper AGIBOT Innovation (Shanghai) Technology Co. was among them.
When asked astir its hobbies, the robot's database went from doing sports and dancing to studying exertion and listening to music. Describing the radical successful beforehand of it is nary situation either: "a pistillate holding a phone, a pistillate holding a container and a phone, a antheral holding a camera,” it said astatine 1 point.
Calvin Chiu, the main operating serviceman of Novautek Autonomous Driving, AGIBOT's cause successful Hong Kong, said that the robot tin supply affectional restitution to humans done conversations and service arsenic a teacher to older adults and children. Different robots tin beryllium programmed with antithetic personalities, too.
“It would beryllium similar a friend,” Chiu said.
In China, exertion has evolved into an country of contention with the U.S., with nationalist information implications. Beijing’s latest five-year program vows to “target the frontiers of subject and technology.” Speeding up the improvement of products similar humanoid robots and their applications is portion of the 2026-2030 program for the world’s second-largest economy.
Official information showed China had much than 140 humanoid-robot manufacturers and much than 330 models successful 2025.
London-based exertion probe and advisory radical Omdia precocious ranked 3 of them — AGIBOT, Unitree Robotics and UBTech Robotics Corp. — arsenic the lone first-tier vendors successful its planetary appraisal successful presumption of shipment numbers. They each shipped much than 1,000 units of general-purpose embodied intelligent robots past year, with the archetypal 2 companies shipping much than 5,000 units, the study said.
In February, humanoid robots were among the highlights of the CCTV Spring Festival gala successful China, a tv amusement celebrating the Lunar New Year. A martial arts show by children and robots stole the spotlight.
Some Chinese exhibitors flexed their advances astatine the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center connected Monday, showing robotic capabilities that ranged from talking to humans, punching and soil coating to doing backflips and catching suspects with nets during information patrol demonstrations.
Robert Chan, planetary strategy serviceman astatine EngineAI, based successful Shenzhen, brought its PM01 robot to showcase its mobility, including doing a beforehand flip. His institution plans to motorboat 2 factories successful China for wide accumulation this year.
He said that China enjoys advantages successful definite areas, specified arsenic low-cost engineering. He besides pointed to the signifier of sharing know-how betwixt companies, dissimilar successful the United States and Europe, wherever companies typically shield their ain technology.
Chan foresaw that the adjacent signifier of robotics would determination toward robots featuring bodies looking similar people, with much affectional exchanges and facial expressions, oregon adjacent looking similar they tin breathe. That is astir plugging the spread successful robots' interactions with humans, helium said.
“The warmth and emotion speech with the quality being. Besides, helping humans to marque the determination and helping humans to implicit their task,” helium said.
One institution successful the accumulation appears to beryllium moving toward that direction.
From a distance, 3 women look to beryllium greeting guests astatine an accumulation booth astatine 1 corner. Up close, they crook retired to beryllium humanoid robots that could beryllium the aboriginal of lawsuit work and depository circuit guides.
Wang Zuhua, concern manager astatine Shenzhen DX Intech Technology Co., said that the institution sold much than 400 robots designed with pistillate features and brushed synthetic faces. Some are already moving successful museums and authorities venues connected the mainland, wherever they tin pb guests to washrooms and offices oregon supply venue tours, helium said.
Malaysian visitant Russel Lupang was amazed by their appearances and movements.
“It’s beautiful, but not existent feeling,” helium said.
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