It's the dawn of a Brave New Noodle World! A new noodle-bot that holds dough and slices daoxiao-style noodles (刀削面) is popping up all over northern China, and you shouldn't be surprised if you run into one soon. more ›

Researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou recently unveiled two robots that can play a decent game of ping-pong with both backhand and forehand capabilities. Taking four years to develop, the twin robots' eye-mounted cameras capture stills at 120 images per second, which allows processors to then calculate a whacked ball's position, speed, angle, landing spot and trajectory. more ›

That's right! It's time again for video highlights from this year's International Humanoid Robot Olympic Games! Held in Hailin, Heilongjiang province, the competition consists of 30 different events and features the best humanoids China has to offer. And if you missed it, be sure to check out our highlights from last year as well!
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Taiwan's own Foxconn, famous for producing Apple products such as the iPad and equally infamous for its unfortunate spate of suicides, recently revealed their plans to replace some of their workforce with 1 million robots over the next three years. more ›

Via Telegraph TV: Some of the most technically advanced robots in the world go on show at the Shanghai International Conference on Robotics and Automation in China. more ›

Last month, we noticed that, quite bizarrely, there was a Transformers fan conference happening right here in Shanghai. We were deathly curious about what was going on in there, but never found the time to go. more ›

Looks like Transformers fever still hasn't quite left Shanghai. The hero's robot of choice, Bumblebee, was recently spotted standing outside the Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall in anticipation for the 2010 Cybertron Annual Meeting. more ›

Okay, so they didn't originally dance to Beyonce, but it's kind of cute to see when the 20 Nao robots, who had their first ever synchronized 10 minute performance completely autonomously in front of the French Pavilion last week, match up to "Single Ladies." more ›

Longtime Shanghaiist readers will remember Wu Yulu, the kickass robot-inventing Chinese farmer who has been popping up on our radar since 2007. We've got good news for all his fans! Come May 1, when that mother of all events begins, Wu is going to display 38 of his favourite robots here in Shanghai! Seriously, we wonder which pavilion they're going to stick him in. Any guesses?
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Given that the Shanghai Expo is supposed to represent the future, it was only a matter of time before we were inundated with robots. Shanghai has kindly delivered robots, and not just any robots: Haibao robots! more ›

Twenty four provinces and municipalities of China unveiled their plans for the Expo at a meeting yesterday. Now we're sure that each province is going to try and outdo each other, but Shaanxi seems to have already taken the cake: they're building imperial robots! more ›

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Chinese farmer Wu Yulu came from an impoverished village outside of Beijing and did not have the chance to attain secondary education, but this did not stop him from teaching himself to build robots. This video features Wu's "30 second son" (as he affectionately calls it), a walking, talking, rickshaw-pulling robot which he says is now dearer to him than his own son. Having accidentally burnt down his own house and plunged his family into debt in the process of experimenting with robots, Wu has been hailed by the media as "China's cleverest farmer-inventor" and now works with universities and robotics companies, travelling around China to exhibit his creations. more ›