With stats like that, one can’t help but suspect that the first country to have a million humanoids will be China.

The robot can bend, grasp and carry in ways humans can’t, which could help it navigate spaces too confined for human arms.

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...