{"id":142359,"date":"2025-12-14T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142359"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:00:09","slug":"how-chinas-us150000-robotic-start-up-beat-tesla-boss-elon-musk-in-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142359","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s US$150,000 robotic start-up beat Tesla boss Elon Musk in 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe odds seemed impossible: a shoestring Chinese start-up founded in 2023 with just 1 million yuan (US$142,000) taking on Elon Musk \u2013 tech legend, disrupter in space and CEO of Tesla \u2013 who is valued at half a trillion dollars.<br \/>\nBut in less than two years, EngineAI Robotics, led by CEO Zhao Tongyang, created the T800 \u2013 a robot that delivers Bruce Lee-style roundhouse kicks with the force of a small car \u2013 and, under the instruction of smiling engineers and scientists, tried it first on the boss&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3336182\/how-chinas-us150000-robotic-start-beat-tesla-boss-elon-musk-2-years?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe odds seemed impossible: a shoestring Chinese start-up founded in 2023 with just 1 million yuan (US$142,000) taking on Elon Musk \u2013 tech legend,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142359"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}