On Saturday, Beijing hosted the world’s first half-marathon in which humans competed alongside humanoid robots. Among the 21 robots to compete, six completed the race, and the winning robot required several battery changes to...
This year, China Media Group’s (CMG) annual Spring Festival Gala variety show, celebrating the advent of the Year of the Snake, featured the usual line-up of song and dance routines, operatic and acrobatic feats, comedic skits...
Kyodo reports allegations of continuing labor abuses at four Chinese factories supplying Japanese...
Reuters’ Paul Carsten reports that over 1,000 workers at a Foxconn factory in Chongqing went...
As the workforce grows older and more demanding, the long anticipated rise of industrial robots in...
At Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson talks to three Chinese factory managers about the deep...
As the eyes of the world bore hungrily into the London 2012 medal table, China Daily’s Wang Kaihao reports from the International Humanoid Robot Olympic Games in Harbin and talks to the competition’s executive...
Foxconn plans to address problems with increasingly expensive and sometimes suicidal workers by replacing many of them with robots, increasing the number it uses a hundredfold over the next three years. Xinhua reports: The...
Wired magazine’s Danger Room blog reports the first confirmed sighting, by a Japanese patrol plane, of a Chinese Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: The drone (pictured above) appears to be small, possibly no more than a dozen feet...
From People’s Daily by way of Wired News: Scientists with the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China’s Shandong University of Science and Technology say they implanted micro electrodes in the brain of a pigeon so they can command it to fly right or left or up or down. The implants stimulated different areas […]
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