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China’s Tsinghua-Backed Humanoid Achieves Fully Autonomous Tennis Rally — and Elon Musk Took Notice
A Beijing and Tsinghua University team unveiled a humanoid tennis robot that learns via deep reinforcement learning rather than preprogrammed routines, reportedly sustaining 20-plus rallies and achieving a 90.9% forehand success rate. The video drew global attention after Elon Musk reshared it and Andrej Karpathy expressed surprise, underscoring the growing prominence of embodied AI demonstrations and their technical and regulatory implications.

Million‑yuan salaries for VLA experts signal Chinese push to move large models into real robots
Xianheng International is hiring VLA large‑model experts at million‑yuan salaries to fast‑track deployment of multimodal AI on robotic platforms, including quadruped manipulators and future humanoids. The move reflects broader Chinese industry momentum to commercialise embodied AI across energy, transport and emergency response, while exposing talent, hardware and regulatory challenges.