Customers fill in to Beijing's new consumer robot shopping centre
Pacific Asia • Dec 19, 2025, 4:47 PM
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Are you stuck at the last minute for a Christmas gift? Wondering how to “wow” your child when they open their presents? Well, Beijing might have a solution for you: The world’s first consumer robot shopping centre. New this year, it has everything. From robot baristas to football-playing humanoids, from chess-playing robots to dancing machine-dogs. It’s part of a wider push towards robotics and AI across the whole of China. Our correspondent Jan Camenzind Broomby went to take a closer look.
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