Xinhua and UBTECH unveil Xinyan and Xinyu, billed as the first bionic humanoid news anchors
At the World Media Summit in Beijing the robots, designed with Zhang Yimou, plug into Xinhua's Xinhua Yudian AI news agent for live-style broadcasts.
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