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China’s Humanoids Will Soon Be Playing the Hunger Games
Robots stole the show at Shanghai’s AI summit. Now comes the hard part of breaking through the hype and competition.
A robot rave.
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By far the biggest crowd-pleaser at China’s top artificial intelligence summit this week was the march of the robots.
An entire floor of the sprawling Shanghai exhibition venue was dedicated to droids, and onlookers went wild as what would’ve seemed like science fiction even just a few years ago came to life.