Sina graphic essay maps 2025’s AI economy and humanoid robot boom

This graphic-heavy feature is interesting less for any single new fact than for the narrative it weaves about where AI now sits in China’s view of the global economy. It stitches together images of Tesla’s Optimus handing out candy, Boston Dynamics’ Spot at global summits, Chinese humanoid robots dancing on stage, Nvidia GPUs orbiting in satellites, and AI-infused logistics and health systems. The implicit message: 2025 was the year AI stopped being primarily a software play and became embodied in factories, robots and infrastructure worldwide.

For AGI watchers, this framing matters because it shows how national media is preparing the public for a structural reordering of labor and capital around AI. When you see quotes about robot prices collapsing from hundreds of thousands of dollars to sub-$50,000, alongside Gartner forecasts for "digital human" departments and WHO guidelines for AI health workers, you’re looking at a consensus that advanced AI will be everywhere in the production function, not just in chatbots. That doesn’t mean AGI is imminent, but it does mean that when more general systems arrive, they will plug into economies already reorganized around AI-native workflows and embodied agents.