
What U.S. tariffs look like from a Chinese trade city
Almost any American store or home has goods in it made in China, but I never thought I could visit a single place where much of it is sold. Yiwu International Trade City, a giant wholesale market in Yiwu, China, is the clearinghouse for millions of Chinese-made items. The market does not generally …
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Boeing (NYSE:BA) jet intended for use by a Chinese airline landed back at the planemaker’s U.S. production hub on Sunday, a …
No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon alongside flesh-and-blood competitors
BEIJING (AP) — In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital on Saturday. The bipedal robots of various makes and sizes navigated the 21.1-kilometer (13.1-mile) course supported by teams of human …
Robots run a half marathon, slowly
It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the first world’s first humanoid half-marathon on Saturday, with 21 humanoid robots competing alongside thousands of humans. Bloomberg reports that the …
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