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China asks robots to find customers beyond the factory

Nine departments have published a commerce policy extending embodied AI into household services, logistics and retail. It offers direction and existing funding channels, while leaving commercial demand, deployment costs and delivery schedules to be demonstrated.

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A robot industry needs customers who can give its machines a useful job. China’s new commerce policy addresses that demand problem, extending the official brief for embodied AI beyond production lines into household services, distribution and the places where people buy things.

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