
August 20th, 2026
China opened the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Wednesday.
The event runs for five days.
It shows about 3,000 products.
Organizers said no other countries were showing things there.
But the conference has the word "World" in its name.
Unitree is a top Chinese robot maker.
It makes human-like robots.
Many people came to see them.
Its robots boxed.
They danced.
They played ping pong with a person.
The conference opened on the same day.
On that day, Unitree started selling its shares in Shanghai.
The event comes weeks after a new rule.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission made this rule.
It stops imports of new foreign-made human-like robots.
It also stops imports of four-legged robots.
The agency said these robots are a risk to national security.
They can be a cyber threat.
The rule targets China.
UBTECH is another big robot company.
It showed industrial robots.
These robots moved parts like factory workers.
Its emotional-care robot can talk.
It can make faces.
It can move its hands.
It costs 168,000 yuan.
That is more than $24,000.
People can buy it for themselves.
Experts said many human-like robots still look good.
But they do not work well as real workers.
At one booth, a helper robot tried to fold a shirt.
After some minutes, it could not do this simple job.
August 20th, 2026

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