Xinhua Hires Two UBTECH UWORLD U1 Humanoid Robots as News Anchors
CyberRobooo · x · 2026-11-06
Xinhua News has hired two biomimetic humanoid news anchors — UBTECH's UWORLD U1 — to host news reports. The poster notes Chinese media has used AI digital hosts for years, but those were screen-only; now these digital humans have bodies, with loadable personality and memory, able to step off the screen and talk to people. The video speaker is director Zhang Yimou.
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