Here are the 2025 sales stats in case anyone is interested.
Total units sold was 13000, most were probably used for showcases and such.
And can be overridden by Beijing as needed?
It was foolish of Western countries to outsource their industrial bases to where wages were cheaper. That said, those jobs are going to disappear due to robots/AI, even in China & we’ll be moving on to a different type of economic system anyway, whether we like it or not.
Before that happens, there are benefits to this world of China-dominated manufacturing, too. We can see it most clearly in renewables & EVs, but I think it will happen with robotics as well.
China will make humanoid robots cheap. I’m sure there’ll be expensive luxury models, too. But like all other electronics, the vast majority will be cheaper ‘almost as good’ models. How cheap? China can already make them for $5,000 or so. I’d guess in the 2030s, a few cheaper humanoid robots will be the price of the cheaper car models.
So, simultaneously with robots making human workers obsolete, they will also be giving us all our own personal workers, too.
