China Trains Humanoid Robots for Warehouse, Factory and Restaurant Jobs

Reports from China say humanoid robots are moving beyond demonstration shows and are being trained on practical tasks such as sorting materials, folding clothes, carrying trays, and working in warehouses, factories, restaurants, and offices. The push is happening in specialized training centers that recreate real-world settings and use repeated human demonstrations and motion-capture data to teach robots how to perform these jobs. The effort matters because China is trying to speed up the commercialization of humanoid robots and build a large data base that could help deploy them more widely in industry and services.