At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Jan 7 – the tech sector’s premier trade exhibition – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for his keynote address. During the speech, where he declared the field of robotics was nearing a watershed moment, he was flanked by 14 gleaming, waving humanoid models from industry leaders.
Weeks later, at the Spring Festival Gala – China’s annual televised Lunar New Year extravaganza, watched by over a billion people – robotics firm Unitree put on a demo of a different sort.
