“ChinAI #366: Most Companion Robots Die by Day 30” by Jeffrey Ding

Featured links

• Huxiu piece
• Fast Company
• ChinAI #341
• Most Companion Robots Die by Day 30
• Labelling AI-Generated Content in China - Where the Rules Work and Where They Don’t
• Are There Any Good Ideas for AI Governance?
• Fan Yang, Back to the Future: A Walk through Huaqiangbei in 2025
• Shanzhai (or “knockoff”) cell phones
• Who is us: the globalization of innovation and challenges to assessing technological dependence

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These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University.

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First published:
July 13th, 2026

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-366-most-companion-robots

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