# robotics commercialization
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China’s Spring Gala Turns into a Robot Showcase — What the Pageant Means for the Race to Build a ‘Smart’ Humanoid
China’s 2026 Spring Festival Gala became a de facto showcase for humanoid robotics, with four domestic firms presenting polished acrobatics, coordinated dance and domestic task demonstrations. The broadcast signalled that motion control and embodied intelligence are maturing, while shifting investor attention from hardware to the ‘brain’ — large embodied models and task‑general AI.
China’s Magic Atom Leaps from Lab to Limelight — But Commercial Robot Reality Remains Costly and Long-Dated
Magic Atom, a young Chinese humanoid‑robot start‑up, was named an official robotics partner for China’s 2026 Spring Festival Gala, a high‑visibility sign that humanoid robotics are moving toward commercialisation. Its co‑founder warned that embodied intelligence remains a long‑cycle, capital‑intensive field: hardware costs, scarce effective real‑world data, and the difficulty of passing training costs to customers are the industry’s core challenges.
Fu Sheng: AI Will Make Machines Orbit People — Robots, Agents and the Case for ‘Start with the End’
Fu Sheng, founder of Cheetah Mobile and OrionStar, argues the AI era will flip human–machine roles and calls for rebuilding apps as AI‑native products. He stresses a scenario‑first approach for robots and devices to secure commercial returns, while warning that foundational models still need improvement for decision‑critical tasks.