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T8000 robot soldier from Chinese company EngineAI
The race for humanoid robots is in full swing, and Chinese companies appear to be gaining the upper hand. The videos introducing your robotic armies are very, very good.
The Chinese robotics startup presented on Tuesday the T800its latest life-sized humanoid robot. It is the company’s fourth model, and is named after the killer robot from the saga, by James Cameron.
In the spectacular presentation, the T800 shows its numerous capabilitiesfrom combat movements to industrial tasks and personal monitoring functions.
The images show the humanoid robot warming up like a human boxer, performing double kicks in the air and rotation kicks, in addition to demonstrating coordinated combat movements.
The video also highlights non-combat related applications, such as performing I work in a factory and act as a companion robot.
Com 1.73 meters tall and weighing 75 kilosthe T800 has up to five hours of autonomy. It maintains a friendly presence, typical of a humanoid robot, while presenting “optimized proportions for industrial collaboration and other multifunctional operations”, said the company in a statement sent to .
The T800 starts at 180 thousand yuan (about 22 thousand euros) and was “designed to demanding industrial tasks, precision operations in commercial environments and interactive functions in a domestic context”, adds the statement.
EngineAI states that the overall physical performance of the robot exceeds that of 90% of adult men, adding that its operational cost represents around 1/3 of the cost of human labor.
“Don’t be naive. It’s CGI”
China’s rapid advances in the field of humanoid robotics, from advances in realistic movements to growing mass production capacityhave attracted significant attention in recent months.
Last week, the Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer XPENG presented, at its Tech Day 2025, the new state-of-the-art humanoid robot, which impressed the public with its realistic appearance and feline agility.
The images generated a lively debate between Chinese and foreign internet users, leading XPENG to release a video in which the robot was opened in publicto prove that IRON is not operated by a .
The video was not, however, entirely enlighteningsince it was only “gutted” one of the legs of the XPENG robot. It would have been interesting to have also seen the “non-human” interior of the robot’s anatomy, such as its belly or skull.
As user João Costa says in a comment we made a few days ago on ZAP, “could be a person with a prosthesisit would be better to show, for example, the face.”
The presentation video for EngineAI’s “Terminator” also did not escape the scrutiny of users, who consider that the images are “unreal” and which were made using CGI — computer-generated animation.
According to EngineAI, the video did not use CGI or Generative Artificial Intelligencealthough “the color was too saturated in post-production, which gave it a 3D animation look”.
The doubts raised by users led the Shenzhen company to publish a presentation video “” on X, to “clarify rumors” about the authenticity of the images.
But the “making of” images also not fully convinced the most skeptical observers.
“Don’t be naive. It’s CGI. How do I know? 14 years of experience. For example, notice the doors of the Saloon: they break into pieces in this behind-the-scenes video, while in the official video they just break apart. By now, we should know that it is very easy to falsify a making of”, a user.
However, the Chinese robotics company also published, in November, an article about mass production and delivery of your robots life-sized industrial humanoids.
However, the authenticity of imageswhich are reminiscent of the science fiction film “Me, Robot“, also raised some doubts.
Num , Brett Adcockfounder and CEO of North American Figure, says that the images are fake and that the video was generated by a computer. “Notice the reflections in the head of this robot and compare them with the reflections behind it. The robot in front is real; everything behind him is fake. If we see several heads reflecting lights on the ceiling, that’s a clear sign that it’s CGI,” says Adcock.
Post by Brett Adcock about UBTECH robots
UBTECH, stating that much of the skepticism regarding the progress of robotics in China results from a “lack of knowledge of the industrial strength of the country and its ecosystem of highly coordinated supply chains.”
It’s booming, the announcements happen every day. , there doesn’t seem to be much time left before the robotic infantry Leave the field of science fiction and reach the battlefields.
For now, however, the Chinese government appears to have very good reasons to be, because those who do something well, apparently, are doing it with a “little help” from AI.
