Robots on the run: China’s humanoid leap

At a half-marathon in Beijing, humanoid robots stunned spectators by outperforming the fastest human runners and dramatically surpassing last year’s robotic champion. What's behind this rapid progress in humanoid robotics in China? How will they evolve in the near future, and what could that mean to our daily lives? Host Dou Hongyu is joined by John Gong, a professor with the University of International Business and Economics, Muhammad Ali Nasir, Professor of Economics at the University of Leeds, and Liu Shaoshan, Director of Embodied Intelligence, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society, to explore the breakthroughs behind China’s humanoid robots and examine how they may change the way we live and work.

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Robots on the run: China’s humanoid leap is an episode from World Today by podcastcp.

This episode is 54:08 long.

This episode was published on Apr 24, 2026.

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