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*<\/p>\n Agibot streams robot-powered performance<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n Four robot makers to participate in Spring Festival gala<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n Dance skills show preluded Unitree’s rise<\/p>\n BEIJING, – In China, humanoid robots are serving as Lunar New Year entertainment, with their manufacturers pitching their song-and-dance skills to the general public as well as potential customers, investors and government officials.<\/p>\n On Sunday, Shanghai-based robotics start-up Agibot live-streamed an almost hour-long variety show featuring its robots dancing, performing acrobatics and magic, lip-syncing ballads and performing in comedy sketches. Other Agibot humanoid robots waved from an audience section.<\/p>\n An estimated 1.4 million people watched on the Chinese streaming platform Douyin. Agibot, which called the promotional stunt “the world’s first robot-powered gala,” did not have an immediate estimate for total viewership.<\/p>\n The show ran a week ahead of China’s annual Spring Festival gala to be aired by state television, an event that has become an important – if unlikely – venue for Chinese robot makers to show off their success.<\/p>\n A squad of 16 full-size humanoids from Unitree joined human dancers in performing at China Central Television’s 2025 gala, drawing stunned accolades from millions of viewers.<\/p>\n Less than three weeks later, Unitree’s founder was invited to a high-profile symposium chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Hangzhou-based robotics firm has since been preparing for a potential initial public offering.<\/p>\n This year’s CCTV gala will include participation by four humanoid robot startups, Unitree, Galbot, Noetix and MagicLab, the companies and broadcaster have said.<\/p>\n Agibot’s gala employed over 200 robots. It was streamed on social media platforms RedNote, Sina Weibo, TikTok and its Chinese version Douyin. Chinese-language television networks HTTV and iCiTi TV also broadcast the performance.<\/p>\n “When robots begin to understand Lunar New Year and begin to have a sense of humour, the human-computer interaction may come faster than we think,” Ma Hongyun, a photographer and writer with 4.8 million followers on Weibo, said in a post.<\/p>\n Agibot, which says its humanoid robots are designed for a range of applications, including in education, entertainment and factories, plans to launch an initial public offering in Hong Kong, Reuters has reported.<\/p>\n State-run Securities Times said Agibot had opted out of the CCTV gala in order to focus spending on research and development. The company did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n The company demonstrated two of its robots to Xi during a visit in April last year.<\/p>\n U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, who has pivoted automaker Tesla toward a focus on artificial intelligence and the Optimus humanoid robot, has said the only competitive threat he faces in robotics is from Chinese firms.<\/p>\n Like those rivals, Musk has also used stunts to promote Optimus, rolling out human-directed robots as bartenders at an event in 2024.<\/p>\n This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hindustantimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" * Chinese robot makers ready for Lunar New Year entertainment spotlight Agibot streams robot-powered performance * Four robot makers to participate in Spring Festival gala * Dance skills show preluded Unitree’s rise BEIJING, – In China, humanoid robots are serving as Lunar New Year entertainment, with their manufacturers pitching their song-and-dance skills to the general […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2282327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[440092,440095,442124,442123,440094],"class_list":["post-2282326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-humanoid-robots","tag-initial-public-offering","tag-lunar-new-year-entertainment","tag-robot-powered-performance","tag-spring-festival-gala"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Chinese-robot-makers-ready-for-Lunar-New-Year-entertainment-spotlight.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282328,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282326\/revisions\/2282328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}