Production lines around the world have begun using humanoid robots developed in Ningbo City of east China's Zhejiang Province.
At a production facility for Beko, a Turkish home appliance giant, humanoid robots from the Ningbo-based Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center have been assigned as quality inspectors. They are capable of opening refrigerator doors and scanning and inspecting the inside.
According to the innovation center, the robots are increasingly drawing attention from producers like Beko precisely because of their wide-ranging capabilities.
"We have established a relatively comprehensive product portfolio that allows us to promote the robots' application in various sectors," said Xiong Rong, founder and chief scientist at the innovation center.
At this year's Hannover Messe 2026, the world's leading trade fair for industrial technology held in Germany, the center joined hands with Schneider Electric to launch a wheel-arm humanoid robot, which combines a mobile wheeled base with a human-like upper body featuring actuated arms.
The robot can precisely operate a pipette to complete the entire process, including sampling, analysis, and cleaning, with a success rate as high as 99.99 percent. That capability attracted significant attention from numerous visitors at the exhibition.
"This year, we also fulfilled an order from a leading global logistics company to help it handle the transport and sorting of bins between different racks. We also have products used for solution preparation in the bio-pharmaceutical sector," said Xiong.
China-made humanoid robots begin work in global production facilities
Yemen's Houthi group said Wednesday that Saudi forces had carried out 156 air and missile strikes on the Houthi-held capital Sanaa and five other provinces, as the group reported fresh fighting with government forces in Yemen's northern province of Al-Jawf near the Saudi border.
In a statement posted on social media platform X, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the Saudi strikes hit areas in Sanaa and the provinces of Taiz, Saada, Al-Jawf, Marib and Amran, claiming that civilian sites were among the targets but provided no details.
According to Sarea, the latest attacks brought the number of Saudi air and missile strikes recorded by the group since the current escalation began to 1,798.
There was no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia.
Sarea also said Houthi forces had repelled an attempt by government forces to advance toward the group's positions in eastern Al-Jawf.
He said the Houthis targeted troop gatherings in Al-Jawf with ballistic missiles and drones, claiming dozens of government soldiers were killed or wounded and several military vehicles destroyed.
Also on Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said that it had launched a comprehensive operation, destroying 82 Houthi military targets across several provinces, in response to the attacks on civilians and civilian sites in the kingdom.
Coalition spokesman Turki Al Maliki said on the social media platform X that the operation hit sites in the provinces of Saada, Hodeidah, Al-Jawf and Marib.
The targets included ballistic missile-related threat sources of which there were 11 mountain-based missile storage sites in Saada, command and control centers, communication systems, missile and weapons depots, and Houthi gathering sites, Al Maliki added.
He said the operation followed the attacks on civilian objects in Saudi Arabia, most recently targeting King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and Abha International Airport.
Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation said early Wednesday that three people were killed and 36 others were injured in the two separate attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday. Yemen's conflict began in late 2014, when the Houthis seized Sanaa and much of northern Yemen. A Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015 in support of the internationally recognized government, now based in the southern port city of Aden.
Houthis claim repelling government advance as Saudi-led coalition says 82 Houthi military targets destroyed
