{"id":571387,"date":"2026-08-17T05:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571387\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T05:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:14:12","slug":"china-shock-looms-for-robotics-as-physical-ai-race-heats-up-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571387\/","title":{"rendered":"China shock looms for robotics as physical AI race heats up: think tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/china-tech\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Taiwan&#8217;s DSET says Beijing making &#8216;whole of nation&#8217; push similar to EV, drone strategy<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260814 humanoid robot china\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Physical AI is emerging as one of the next frontiers in the global race for tech supremacy. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>CHENG TING-FANG<\/p>\n<p>August 17, 2026 10:18 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TAIPEI &#8212; The world could be headed for another &#8220;China shock&#8221; as Beijing mounts a whole-nation effort to dominate next-generation advanced robotics and physical AI, despite lagging in cutting-edge chips, sensors and precision machine tools, according to the latest assessment by a leading Taipei-based think tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China tech Taiwan&#8217;s DSET says Beijing making &#8216;whole of nation&#8217; push similar to EV, drone strategy Physical AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,607,30942,12814,111,139,69,2849,7798,13810,13744,14931,145,5662,810],"class_list":["post-571387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-heats","tag-looms","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-physical","tag-race","tag-robotics","tag-shock","tag-tank","tag-technology","tag-think","tag-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}