26 Jun 2026
Exit Stage Left: Can China’s Robots Find a Real Job?
Whether it’s Arnold Schwarzenegger being crushed by a hydraulic press in The Terminator or HAL 9000’s haunting elegy in 2001: A Space Odyssey , the fatal vulnerabilities of famous robots are a familiar trope in popular culture. But at a FamilyMart in Beijing, a machine struggles with a more unlikely foe: a bag of potato chips.
