China shipped 13,000 humanoid robots in 2025, but most were bought by the government as showpieces

China’s humanoid robots were the talk of the internet after this year’s Spring Festival Gala, where dozens of them kicked, flipped, and danced their way through a four-hour state television broadcast watched by hundreds of millions of people.  A year ago, the picture looked quite different. At the 2025 gala, earlier robot models wobbled through […]