{"id":145872,"date":"2026-02-10T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145872"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:00:15","slug":"before-the-factory-floor-the-dance-floor-humanoids-find-a-path-to-market-at-us145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145872","title":{"rendered":"Before the factory floor, the dance floor: humanoids find a path to market at US$145"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostBefore humanoid robots realise their longer-term potential as efficient industrial workers, a more immediate role is emerging in China: on-demand entertainment. For 999 yuan (US$145), customers can now rent a humanoid robot to dance, perform and pose to order.<br \/>\nThat proposition is being trialled by Botshare \u2013 known in Chinese as Qingtianzu, or \u201cOptimus rent\u201d \u2013 which last weekend rolled out a \u201c999 yuan robot experience programme for everyone\u201d ahead of Valentine\u2019s Day and the Lunar New&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/3342943\/factory-floor-dance-floor-humanoids-find-path-market-us145?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostBefore humanoid robots realise their longer-term potential as efficient industrial workers, a more immediate role is emerging in China: on-demand entertainment. For 999 yuan&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145872"}],"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=145872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}