“The biggest advantage of this friend is that it can work ‘007, 0:00 to 0:00, seven days a week,’” said Lao, a public relations officer at UBTECH Robotics, a humanoid, human-shaped robot company in ...

In a world where robots are becoming an integral part of our daily lives, one breakthrough is taking things to a whole new level. Enter the Walker S2, an autonomous humanoid robot developed by UBTECH, ...

Humanoid robots achieve only up to 50% of human productivity in limited factory tasks, said Michael Tam, chief brand officer at Chinese robotics firm UBTech. Tam told the Financial Times that the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A leading Chinese humanoid robot maker has said its latest machines are at most half as efficient as human ...

A leading Chinese humanoid robot maker has said its latest machines are at most half as efficient as human workers, underlining the challenges in deploying them to solve labour shortages and increase ...