Inside China’s big AI show: Robot police, dancing humanoids and a roof collapse

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Hundreds of thousands of people visited Shanghai to see fleets of humanoid robots, artificial hands and walls of computer chips as China projects global leadership on AI.

Humanoid Robots Take Up Traffic Duties In Shanghai

A humanoid robot in uniform directs traffic outside the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday.VCG via Getty Images

July 20, 2026, 11:38 AM EDT

By Jared Perlo, Dawn Liu and Erin Tan

SHANGHAI — Hundreds of thousands of AI-curious visitors from China and abroad flocked to Shanghai for this weekend’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference, jostling to get a glimpse at China’s latest AI innovations.

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