In a nondescript building in Beijing’s Zhongguancun district, sometimes called China’s Silicon Valley, a training session is taking place one sweltering July afternoon. In a small, cluttered lab at Chinese #robotics startup Galaxea AI, a young employee toggles a switch to direct a base-mounted robotic arm to turn on a nearby lamp. His colleague records a pair of mechanical arms smoothing out a wrinkled bedsheet as they attempt to make a bed. These images and video clips will be used to help train the company’s proprietary #AI model powering its R1 series of wheel-based #humanoids. Standing at 1.7-meters tall, they’re designed to assist in factories, and in the not-so-distant future, in homes. That’s an ambitious goal for a two-year-old outfit in an industry racing to deliver next-generation #robots expected to transform daily life. Keep reading at the link in our bio. (Photo: Galaxea AI)