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, ...

This screengrab from a video released by the Chinese-backed CCTV shows a robot dog firing a rifle during military exercises in Cambodia. Congress is worried that robot dogs with machine guns will be ...

When Chinese humanoid robots flipped, sparred, and performed martial arts alongside human performers – including children – on national television during the Spring Festival Gala, it was easy to ...

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 ...

China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S.

When China’s National People’s Congress convened in Beijing last week to review the draft outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030), much of the Western commentary focused on the headline GDP ...

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

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 ...