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2026 is being called China's mass-production year for humanoid robots. At the World Robot Conference, the numbers looked stirring. Counterpoint Research says global humanoid shipments surpassed 22,000 in the first half of the year, up nearly 300% year over year, while the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology expects China's full-year output to exceed 10...

Hours before the World Robot Conference closed, the Beijing Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center swept the medal table at the second World Humanoid Robot Games, taking 15 gold, 12 silver and 18 bronze medals by 10 p.m. on August 26. Its Tiangong series set 34 human records during the games and took gold in the competition and scenario headliner events.

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At this year's World Robot Conference in Beijing, the spotlight quietly shifted from robots that jump, sprint and flip to booths where humans 'teach' them to work. Visitors donned headsets and gloves to teleoperate grippers while the resulting footage was recorded as training material. A new class of providers — called 'data infrastructure' and 'physical AI data f...

For days, AI developers worldwide had been guessing the identity of Ox Alpha, a mystery model that suddenly appeared on OpenRouter with no developer, no parameter disclosure and no technical report. It raced up the platform's trending list on the strength of code generation, complex reasoning and long-running agent tasks. Late last week, the secret dissolved: Ox A...

The Inner Mongolia city of Ulanqab, set on grassland about 240 kilometers from Beijing, is quietly rewriting China's AI computing geography. With fiber-optic round-trip latency of just 4.2 milliseconds to the capital, it has emerged as what Goldman Sachs calls one of Asia-Pacific's largest and fastest-growing AI compute clusters.

By June 2026, data-center o...