US EditionChina Scales Up AI Humanoid Robot Training with Massive State Support
- Chinese and U.S. Companies are racing in 2025 to develop and deploy humanoid robots with advanced dexterous hands for factories and elderly care worldwide.
- This race follows China's labor shortages, government support for AI humanoids, and challenges from U.S.-China trade tensions and chip export controls limiting supply chains.
- Chinese Linker Hand has 42 degrees of freedom, surpassing Tesla Optimus’s 22, and startups like Agibot and Tesla plan to produce thousands of robots this year for real-world data collection.
- Linkerbot's Gao Gang stated their system includes cameras and electronic skin, while Elon Musk called Optimus a “multi-trillion-dollar opportunity” predicting humanoids may outnumber humans in 20 years.
- These developments suggest humanoid robots could alleviate workforce gaps in manufacturing and elderly care, but hardware, AI integration, and geopolitical issues might delay wide adoption.
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Tesla vs China on the final frontier in humanoid robot development
China’s robot industry is heating up as companies prepare to conquer the final frontier in humanoid robot development. The Tesla Optimus bot team is working to do the same on the other side of the world. Which humanoid robot developer will come out on top? Dexterous hands are said to be the last frontier in humanoid robot development. Robotic hands have become essential to humanoid robots taking on human workloads. As such, companies are increas…
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