Capital is flooding in worldwide. Tesla is retooling factories, Nvidia and SoftBank are placing major bets, and China is scaling manufacturing at record speed. But behind this gold rush lies a real question: Is the humanoid form the inevitable future of embodied intelligence, or just a compelling story we tell ourselves when the real value lies elsewhere? The choices made right now could shape who leads this field for the next decade. So, should we embrace humanoid robots now? CGTN presents the special program – the Global Debate.

Guests on the pro side:

Seeram Ramakrishna, distinguished chair professor from Tsinghua University

Andy Mok, author of The Innovation Machine: How China Creates and Adopts Technology Through Governance

Zhao Yixuan, student at Peking University

Gavin Cooley, student at Peking University

Guests on the con side:

Liu Shaoshan, director of Embodied AI at the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society

Fan Haoqiang, co-founder of Dexmal, an embodied AI company

Leopold Lind, student at Tsinghua University

Jiang Xinyu, student at Tsinghua University