The Robots Changing the World Don’t Have Faces
The most useful robots on Earth look nothing like us — they're rolling boxes, laser-armed gantries, and robot dogs, not the humanoids we were promised. Here's why function is quietly beating form in the design of machines. And, in the background, why the race to build them has become a defining rivalry between the United States and China — with Japan playing a shrewd third hand.
On the night of June 2, 2026, a Chinese robot dance troupe upstaged every human act on the season premiere of America's Got Talent.
Eight humanoid machines took the stage alongside a 26-year-old dancer from Sichuan named Yufei Wu, and moved — to Lady Gaga's "Abracadabra" — with a fluid, unnerving rhythm. Three of them dropped into somersaults and popped back up without a wobble. Simon Cowell called it "nuts, but brilliant." Sofía Vergara, visibly rattled, said what everyone was thinking: "Usually robots...
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