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 ›

Malcolm Moore, Shanghai correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, meets up with peasant inventor Wu Yulu, who is in Shanghai's Rockbund Art Museum now to display his creations:
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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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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 ›