It looks like China is the place where we’ll be buying our humanoid robots
A notable addition to the World Robot Conference this week in Beijing has been the number of Chinese companies, almost 30, that have unveiled humanoid robots along the lines of Tesla’s Optimus, designed to replace humans in factories and warehouses.
There are still relatively few Western companies developing robots, while in contrast, in China a growing number of players are competing, most of them working with Chinese technology, which some analysts mistakenly thought was more limited due to restrictions on the sale of chips by the United States.
This is encouraging Chinese manufacturers either to access powerful chips through cloud computing providers to train algorithms, or when it comes to integrating them into hardware as in the case of robotics, to do more with less by writing more efficient code to obtain LLMs to cope with the more limited number of training cycles involved in using less sophisticated semiconductors. Other companies are either building smaller, more specialized models or employing training methods that…
