Aug 19 (Reuters) – Germany’s VDMA engineering association on Wednesday said humanoid robotics \u200cshould move to the top of \u200cthe political agenda, calling on Germany and Europe to \u200bstep up and create resilient domestic supply chains for sourcing critical parts. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Shares in Unitree, China’s best-known humanoid robot maker, soared \u200cin their \u2060Shanghai trading debut, in a landmark moment for the country’s robotics \u2060sector, which has become a battleground in the Sino-U.S. tech war. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Global humanoid robot \u200bshipments nearly \u200bquadrupled in the \u200bfirst half of \u200cthis year to 19,100 units, with Chinese manufacturers dominating. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The VDMA said a global race for leadership in humanoid robotics has begun, and the topic of humanoid robotics \u200cand physical AI must \u200bbe placed at the \u200btop of \u200bthe political agenda. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The VDMA \u200csaid the crucial challenge lies \u200bin scaling. <\/p>\n
\u2022 “Germany \u200band Europe must establish a comprehensive value chain featuring domestic production of \u200bcritical components,” \u200csaid Hartmut Rauen, Deputy Executive Director \u200bof the VDMA. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by Matthias Williams, \u200bediting by Thomas Seythal) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 19 (Reuters) – Germany’s VDMA engineering association on Wednesday said humanoid robotics \u200cshould move to the top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,6621,85666,19,17,273200,82,273199],"class_list":["post-645576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-eire","tag-germany","tag-humanoid-robot","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-political-agenda","tag-technology","tag-vdma"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117122708653526238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}