Humanoid robot makers are earning much of their revenue selling bots to government-backed training centers, which then sell training data back to the industry, the FT reports. It’s AI circularity all over again, stoking fresh humanoid bubble fears as Unitree soars in its stock market debut despite the US foreign robot ban. [Link: Who is really buying China’s humanoid robots? | https://www.ft.com/content/26735a23-315f-47ef-8cf2-6c6ea9713998?syn-25a6b1a6=1 | Financial Times]

At the World Robot Conference in Beijing on 19 August, more than 300 companies displayed humanoid, industrial and service robots, highlighting the sector’s push into factories and…

Unitree’s shares soared more than 600% in its Shanghai debut, riding a wave of investor enthusiasm for AI-powered machines even as widespread commercial use remains years off