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Dancing kings: Unitree humanoid robots, backed by Alibaba tech, delight Spring Gala show

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Dancing kings: Unitree humanoid robots, backed by Alibaba tech, delight Spring Gala show

Chinese robotics company Unitree, backed by Alibaba Cloud technology, showed off the dancing skills of its general-purpose H1 humanoid robots at this year’s Spring Festival Gala, China’s most-watched television show, to the delight and awe of more than 1 billion viewers. The Lunar New Year eve broadcast saw 16 H1 robots, all decked in floral … Read more

China said to fall short of matching US advances in AI owing to ‘many challenges in theory and technologies’

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China said to fall short of matching US advances in AI owing to ‘many challenges in theory and technologies’

China is falling short of matching the United States in artificial intelligence (AI) advances because the nation’s efforts are “littered with many essential challenges in theory and technologies”, according to a recent slide presentation made to Chinese Premier Li Qiang. Those difficulties were pointed out to Li during his recent inspection tour of the Beijing … Read more