[NetBehaviour] A gallery of unusual Chinese robots.

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A gallery of unusual Chinese robots.

by Roland Piquepaille.

Chinese engineers have unveiled a series of robots these days — without 
releasing lots of technical details about them. In the past two months, 
I've gathered pictures of robots which can act as waiters in restaurants 
in Hong Kong or pull rickshaws near Beijing. I've also found a 
four-finger robotic hand able to play organ, a female robot greeting 
tourists visiting the Sichuan Science Museum with 'ni hao' ('How are 
you?' in Mandarin — if my sources are correct), and even a robotic 
chimpanzee...

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