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822 New tech race splits the world: China builds robots, Europe flies drones and US programs them

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FP News Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/08/2026 03:28 EDT

New tech race splits the world: China builds robots, Europe flies drones and US programs them

Robot stole CES 2026 spotlight as a robotics race split by geography: China leads humanoid hardware and scale, Europe dominates drones, while the US controls software brains and platforms, signalling divergent paths as humanoid move from labs to markets globally.

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