{"id":84209,"date":"2026-07-08T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84209"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:22:00","slug":"the-humanoid-robot-designed-for-a-lifetime-china-reveals-creepy-bots-that-look-and-feel-like-real-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-humanoid-robot-designed-for-a-lifetime-china-reveals-creepy-bots-that-look-and-feel-like-real-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humanoid Robot Designed &#8216;For A Lifetime&#8217;: China Reveals Creepy Bots That Look And Feel Like Real Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mali (caution: tabloid):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/07\/08\/12\/109878185-15961747-image-a-20_1783508748038.jpg\" alt=\"UBTech says that these robots have been specifically designed to provide companionship, and are pitched as a solution to China's loneliness problem\" width=\"389\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-00c47a40-7abd-11f1-8527-2ba152cc3b4e\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/china\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">China<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has revealed a new generation of creepy humanoid\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-00c23050-7abd-11f1-8527-2ba152cc3b4e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sciencetech\/robots\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">robots<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that are designed for a &#8216;lifetime&#8217; of companionship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">At an event in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen, UBTech Robotics launched the world&#8217;s first mass\u2013produced ultra\u2013realistic humanoid robots.\u00a0These Uworld U1 androids are covered with &#8216;biomimetic skin&#8217; that looks and feels just like that of a real human. However, not everyone appears to be a fan of the robots, with one horrified viewer branding the bots &#8216;soulless golems&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mali (caution: tabloid): China\u00a0has revealed a new generation of creepy humanoid\u00a0robots\u00a0that are designed for a &#8216;lifetime&#8217; of companionship..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}