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Circuit training: How China is teaching humanoid robots to do useful things

NPR | By John Ruwitch

Published September 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM EDT

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China has made developing and selling humanoid robots an economic priority, but getting robots to work requires hours of repetitive "training" done by people to create data about the physical world.