Embodied AI at Scale: The Humanoid Robot Boom in China

Dec 19, 2024

Humanoid robots have the potential to achieve the largest production scale compared to other robots, as they align seamlessly with the human-centric design of our modern environment. This positions them as a dominant focus for mass production in the current embodied AI development. China has recently seen significant investment in this space and Humanoid frenzy seems to be sweeping China. The report looks at five key factors are fueling the current surge in humanoid robot development in China.

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Author

Wei Sun

Wei is a Principal Analyst in Artificial Intelligence at Counterpoint. She is also the China founder of Humanity+, an international non-profit organization which advocates the ethical use of emerging technologies. She formerly served as a product manager of Embedded Industrial PC at Advantech. Before that she was an MBA consultant to Nuance Communications where her team successfully developed and launched Nuance’s first B2C voice recognition app on iPhone (later became Siri). Wei’s early years in the industry were spent in IDC’s Massachusetts headquarters and The World Bank’s DC headquarters.