Financial Times: As China’s working-age population shrinks, a consensus is emerging that the country needs to deploy AI embodied robots in as many tasks as possible, as soon as possible.— The country’s workforce is expected to fall to 300 million by the end of the century. Beijing wants humanoids to reduce the labor gap.
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