SMRTR TechAug 27, 2026NotebookCheck

China aims to flood the market with humanoid robots — but they’re still too dumb to replace workers

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China has poured at least $230 million into humanoid robots in early 2026, but the machines remain too slow and unreliable for most real-world factory work. Robots operate at roughly 20% of human speed, and the industry has far too little training data to fix that anytime soon.

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