Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Robots sorting parcels and serving fried chicken enthralled visitors at a robotics expo in Beijing, where hundreds of companies set out their pitches for a future labour market transformed by artificial intelligence.

The Chinese government has embraced robotics as a strategic industry, and local firms have ploughed resources into the development of embodied AI.

The results of that investment were very much in evidence on the first day of the World Robot Conference, as thousands of Chinese and foreign visitors weaved through demonstrations of robots in houses, shops and factories.

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