China is no longer showing humanoid robots, it is training the world to accept them, first they placed those machines in one of the main shows in the eastern country, the Spring Festival 2026 was the scene and showed them as if that were normal, and when the show ended not only was the wow left, the impression was left on the collective, especially on the buyers since the market rose and robot purchases skyrocketed.

Now many scenes shown have gone viral, and are gaining unstoppable inertia, China is connecting culture, engineering and has incorporated mass production to transform humanoid robots into national infrastructure, because perhaps what they are doing here is not just another impressive technology, it may be the first humanoid industry on the scale of one of the largest countries on the planet.

Leading Chinese robotics companies AgiBot, Unitree and UBTech put their machines center stage doing martial arts, synchronized dance, comedy scenes, all in pure wall acting on stage, as if that were just part of the show, but the point here is not, “look how amazing”, the point is that there are robots serving food, organizing clothes, interacting with facial expressions, trying to look like companions, not just machines.

The stage was the spark, but the fire is in the industry, if the 2026 spring festival gala put the robots at the center of the stage, the AgiBot decided to go even deeper into the symbolism, because there is a place in China that represents discipline, balance and absolute mastery of the human body for more than 1000 years, the Shaolin temple and it was exactly there where the EgiBot X2 humanoids entered the scene.

During the event, these robots executed complete kung fu routines with a level of precision that is not just visual, it is numerical, response time of 0.01 seconds, that accuracy of up to 2 mm in the movements, it was not just choreography, it was biomechanics replicated by machine.

The EgiBot But how does a machine learn something so human? The answer lies in the AI ​​model called Genie Operator One. This allows the generalization of complex movements from videos and motion captures without the need to reprogram each gesture manually.

Sensors, gyroscopic stabilization, weight transfer analysis, body coordination, the result is fluidity and more than that narrative. Because when a robot performs a martial art that carries centuries of cultural meaning, technology stops being just a tool, it begins to be part of identity.