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China’s Laws of Robotics: Shanghai publishes first humanoid robot guidelines
Humanoid robots should ‘safeguard human dignity’ and ‘not threaten human security’, say guidelines published during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference.
Shanghai has published China’s first governance guidelines for humanoid robots, calling for risk controls and international collaboration, as tech giants like Tesla showed off their own automatons at the country’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) conference. Most of the 18 humanoid robots on display at the conference came from Chinese exhibitors, as firms race to develop more useful, cost-effective machines with a familiar form factor reminiscent of those in science fiction. China has made it a goal to have mass production of humanoid robots by 2025 and wants global leadership in the sector by 2027, according to a plan published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) in November last year.
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