Videos that suggest China may be building a robot army sound like science fiction, but social media says it's real. DW Fact Check investigates.

At China’s Victory Day parade in September 2025, it was not the marching troops or rolling tanks that made headlines, but the next-generation weapons systems on display. Uncrewed ground vehicles, ...

China announced a 7 percent increase in military spending and a five-year plan to try to reduce its military and industry’s ...

China's robotics industry is growing at an alarming rate. Interesting Engineering reports the country's factory-based adoptions grew by 300,000 in a year, surpassing the rest of the world. In the same ...

Some media users have been sharing videos that they claim are proof that China has started training humanoid robot soldiers. It turns out, however, that these videos were – surprise surprise – created ...

China's humanoid robots industry is booming, but analysts say the units showcased at the Spring Gala aren't all they seem.

China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S. competitors in a still-nascent market.

The country’s ‘bustling’ robotics industry is dominating the global market, though experts are split on how concerned we ...

Engineers studying drone combat at one of China’s top military-linked universities needed a way to simulate clashes between drone swarms in real time. They turned to nature for inspiration. Observing ...