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A visitor high-fives a humanoid robot at the Keenon Robotics booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, on July 18.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Catherine Thorbecke
While Moonshot’s Kimi K3 was blowing up online, at China’s biggest artificial intelligence summit in Shanghai, hundreds of humanoid robots clanking around the exhibition hall stole the show.
Crowds packed in to watch them box, make lattes and do a whole lot of laundry. Even as a sceptic of the rush to build machines in our image – and of some of the breathless coverage – witnessing the sheer scale made the spectacle at the World AI Conference hard to dismiss.
