Bots on the ground: China leads humanoid race

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  Today on the show, will the Meta ruling change teen social media use?

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  And a famous English language bookshop in Paris.

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  But first,

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  This week, the World Humanoid Robot Games took place in Beijing.

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  These are like the Olympic games, but instead of athletes, you have robots competing.

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  Don Weinland is our China business and finance editor.

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  There were some pretty impressive feats during these games.

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  We had robots powerlifting, boxing, playing football, and of course, running.

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  At one of these races, a humanoid called Tiangong Ultra beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint record,

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  so it was able to do this in 9.39 seconds.

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  It ended up crashing into a wall afterwards.

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  Other robots crashed and fell.

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  One of them caught fire.

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  But one thing that these Olympic games for robots demonstrates

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  is that China is really at the forefront of the humanoid robotics industry.

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  Companies in the country will probably sell around 50,000 of them this year.

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  That's triple the figure of last year.

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