Last week saw the New Year Gala in China, which was watched by billions and featured a cast of 53 humanoid robots that danced and twirled handkerchiefs in perfect synchronisation.
This is a trend that China wants to capitalise on; human-looking machines that could be used for everything including manufacturing to medical purposes.
However, this intensifies US-China tensions even further, as the US government has moved to impose trade restrictions on Chinese companies that it feels are not playing fair with their technology.
This follows the news that human-like AI chatbot, DeepSeek, caused a sensation on the Chinese internet, but also caused consternation in the US, which has now banned the app.