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China just opened a brand new four-story Robot Mall, a full-scale shopping center that sells nothing but robots… in case you’re in the market. And if you are, the mall definitely has you covered with a wide variety of robots available. There’s a life-sized humanoid replica of physicist Albert Einstein, a robot that plays chess, pet robot dogs, more than 100 different robots in total.
Your one-stop robot shop
More than 40 Chinese brands such as Ubtech Robotics, Unitree Robotics, and the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center have their products for sale at the over 43,000-square-foot Robot Mall located in Beijing’s E-Town (Yizhuang) district. According to the Global Times, the robots being sold at the mall cover a wide range of fields including medical, industrial, bionic, and humanoid robots. The robots come in all price ranges too, from from 2,000 yuan ($278.33) to several million yuan. (The talking humanoid Albert Einstein robot costs 700,000 yuan, or $97,473.)
“If robots are to enter thousands of households, relying solely on robotics companies is not enough,” Wang Yifan, a store director, told Reuters. The Robot Mall follows the “4S” model – offering sales, spare parts, service, and surveys, much like a car dealership does.
Beijing hosting two major robot events
The mall’s opening coincides with the beginning of the five-day 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC). It features a restaurant with robot waiters, robot chefs, robot bartenders, and a robot rock band. The mall also has several interactive stations where customers can interact with robot dogs and robot hands, and play against robots in games of football, basketball and chess.
The Robot Mall is sure to have a lot of customers this month with the World Robot Conference happening now and the first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games, which will take place from August 14 to 17 in Beijing. During that event, teams from over 20 countries will see their humanoid robots compete in events like track and field, dance, and football (but not kickboxing).
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