A robot sorting packages for a week straight – and it almost beat a human.

In a 10-hour, 12,000-package showdown, a human won by just 192 parcels. The secret? Electronic skin on its fingertips that can "feel" pressure as light as 3 grams.

This isn't sci-fi. Touch-enabled humanoids are already on logistics lines in China, sorting at over 85% human efficiency. And the world's largest flexible sensor factory just broke ground in Hubei.

The gap is closing.

(Sun Dan and Wang Chulun also contributed to the story. Cover designed by Sa Ren)