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Hello, I’m Anniek Bao, a China economy and business reporter, filling in for Evelyn this week. Welcome to another edition of The China Connection.
This week, I look at how the World Robot Conference put China’s ambitions for humanoid robots on full display, even as engineers and investors acknowledge that integrating them into everyday life is still a distant prospect.
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At the World Robot Conference in Beijing, which concluded Tuesday, the mood was a blend of optimism and caution: Businesses showed off increasingly lifelike humanoid robots even as they conceded that technological gaps keeping these machines from mainstream usage remain wide.
