It has come to light with some delay that an Italian national football team has reached the final of the World Cup for humanoid robots, which took place in Beijing last month. Therefore, should interest in Mancini’s squad wane, attention can always turn to the national robot
team.

The stock made its debut in Shanghai with a 629 per cent rise and is already worth 66 billion, despite the risk from the US. Beijing is banking on humanoids as a pillar of its industry, but factories and homes are still a long way from the promised revolution