China could dominate the Physical AI future
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Imagine streets filled with robotaxis and delivery robots. Imagine general-purpose humanoids becoming as ubiquitous as smartphones, doing household chores, taking care of our parents, and taking over tasks that humans don’t want.
Imagine 24/7, fully automated “dark factories” producing more robots without human workers. And imagine nations commanding drone swarms and robot dog packs capable of making decisions and executing missions without human intervention.
We are on the cusp of this future—and much of it is currently driven by China. For a long time, a main bottleneck for robotics has been scalability.
Now, hardware costs have more than halved as China achieved manufacturing dominance in adjacent industries like electric vehicles, which have spurred innovations and economies of scale in components that overlap with robots, including actuators, sensors, and batteries.
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