Humanoid robots have showcased their talents at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The event began on Thursday evening.

Besides those performing tasks, the robots on display include ones that play soccer or Chinese chess, as well as historical figures from scientists Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton to Li Bai, considered one of China's greatest poets. Robots, showing perhaps a humanlike tendency, are not infallible.

Unitree Robotics brought the spotlight-grabbing machines at Beijing’s set piece robots competition on Friday, burnishing its reputation as a national champion for China’s ambitions in developing AI and humanoids.

China opened its first full-scale shopping center dedicated entirely to robots on Friday, as part of a broader push to bring robotics from research labs into people’s homes.

This humanoid is different from incubators for premature infants in that it is set to mimic the entire process of pregnancy, starting right from conception to birth. The baby for the entire gestation period will grow and be nurtured in the tech womb of this humanoid.

Over 500 robots competed in soccer, boxing, and running. In many cases, gravity was the real winner. This week, China’s leading robotics minds gathered in Beijing for a hotly-anticipated, Olympics-style event dubbed the world’s first “ Humanoid Robot Games. ”

MagicLab's flagship humanoid robot shows of its impressive pulling power with new 551 pound, three-man, drag showcase.

In an interview with the People’s Daily, Wang Xingxing predicts that significant progress in the sector will arrive in three to five years.