China’s humanoid robots have gone from dancing for crowds to training for a far more serious job: fighting alongside soldiers.
The shift became clearer after China’s World Humanoid Robot Games last month, where robots ran, boxed and danced. Two days later, the People’s Liberation Army’s official newspaper, PLA Daily, urged researchers to speed up the transfer of advanced technology from laboratories to military training grounds for robotic “combatants,” Reuters reported.
A Reuters review of more than 100 Chinese military procurement notices, academic studies, patents, government records and defense-industry documents found that the PLA has been exploring military applications for humanoids, particularly since 2025.
The focus goes beyond building better robots...
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