Dozens of New Chinese Humanoids Emerge in Summer 2025
For China’s blossoming humanoid robotics sector, there’s been little time to relax this summer.
Keenon Robotics, founded in 2010 in Shanghai, builds AI-powered service robots—like DinerBot, ButlerBot, KleenBot, and industrial S100 that autonomously serve, clean, and transport in restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and more across 60+ countries.
For China’s blossoming humanoid robotics sector, there’s been little time to relax this summer.
WAIC 2025 (World Artificial Intelligence Conference) featured more than 150 fake humans with 60 distinct models, from more than 80 companies.
A truly staggering number of AI-powered machines are emerging basically every day.
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As Unitree’s G1 AI robot enters the world of high fashion, other rising Chinese firms are disrupting the service sector and dominating global competitions.
Pudu Robotics, a Chinese company with more than 80,000 robots deployed globally, just introduced its first bipedal humanoid robot with the motto “Born to Serve.”