Visitors look at a robot on display at robotics company Unitree's first retail store in Beijing in January 9, 2026. (Photo by Adek BERRY / AFP via Getty Images)

Visitors walks past robots on display at robotics company Unitree's first retail store in Beijing in January 9, 2026. (Photo by Adek BERRY / AFP via Getty Images)

A boy touches a robot at robotics company Unitree's first retail store in Beijing in January 9, 2026. (Photo by Adek BERRY / AFP via Getty Images)

Visitors look at robots on display at robotics company Unitree's first retail store in Beijing in January 9, 2026. (Photo by Adek BERRY / AFP via Getty Images)

Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax's CEO Yan Junjie (R), a former executive at the Chinese leading AI software company SenseTime which was blacklisted by the US Commerce Department in 2021, attends the company's listing ceremony at the Hong Kong stock exchange on January 9, 2026. Shares in Chinese AI startup MiniMax soared as much as 78 percent as it went public in Hong Kong, raising 619 million USD in a sign that strong investor demand is rewarding the country's rapidly developing sector. (Photo by Tommy WANG / AFP via Getty Images)

Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax's CEO Yan Junjie (R) and Co-founder and COO Yun Yeyi (L) attend the firm's listing ceremony at the Hong Kong stock exchange on January 9, 2026. Shares in Chinese AI startup MiniMax soared as much as 78 percent as it went public in Hong Kong, raising 619 million USD in a sign that strong investor demand is rewarding the country's rapidly developing sector. (Photo by Tommy WANG / AFP via Getty Images)

Companies' executives from Chinese AI startup MiniMax, medical products manufacture Suzhou Ribo Life Science, and non-ferrous metal processor Yunnan Jinxun Resources, attend the initial public offering (IPO) launch at the Hong Kong stock exchange on January 9, 2026. Shares in Chinese AI startup MiniMax soared as much as 78 percent as it went public in Hong Kong, raising 619 million USD in a sign that strong investor demand is rewarding the country's rapidly developing sector. (Photo by Tommy WANG / AFP via Getty Images)

Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax's CEO Yan Junjie (C), a former executive at the Chinese leading AI software company SenseTime which was blacklisted by the US Commerce Department in 2021, attends the company's listing ceremony at the Hong Kong stock exchange on January 9, 2026. Shares in Chinese AI startup MiniMax soared as much as 78 percent as it went public in Hong Kong, raising 619 million USD in a sign that strong investor demand is rewarding the country's rapidly developing sector. (Photo by Tommy WANG / AFP via Getty Images)