Beijing Establishes The First Humanoid Robotic Innovation Center

The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre was reportedly established late last year under a collaborative effort involving private and state-owned enterprises that manufacture robots.
A new robotics centre in Beijing has revealed intentions to release a general-purpose humanoid robot prototype that is being hyped as an “important symbol” of technological innovation and high-end manufacturing at a time when Chinese leadership is pushing for both against the backdrop of a tech war with the United States.
In the midst of a property market crisis and facing serious demographic challenges – including a rapidly ageing population and shrinking labour force – the world’s second-largest economy is pushing hard to upgrade its growth drivers with new tech-led “ productive forces .”
Some American firms such as Tesla and OpenAI-backed Figure are working on humanoid robots.
Meanwhile, Chinese enterprises such as Fourier Intelligence, UBTech Robotics, and Xiaomi are also tapping into the rapidly growing industry.
Xu Lijin, a delegate with China’s top advisory body, said at the recently concluded “two sessions” parliamentary meetings that high costs and the lack of application scenarios were hindering the industrial and commercial progress of the domestic humanoid robot sector.

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