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China’s Embodied AI: A Conversation with William Hannas and Hugh Grant-Chapman

CSIS

February 13, 2026

CSET’s William Hannas and CSIS’s Hugh Grant-Chapman were featured on the China Power podcast, where they discuss key findings from Hannas’s new CSET report, China’s Embodied AI: A Path to AGI, as well as the CSIS report Is China Leading the Robotics Revolution?

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