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Opinion

December 2, 2025

Europe risks getting its metal ass kicked on humanoid robots

Beijing staged the robot Olympics, while robot fight nights have sprung up in San Francisco. Where’s Europe’s creative muscle?

Éanna Kelly

4 min read

Paddy Cosgrave felt like he’d travelled into the future. The Web Summit boss, on a tour of Chinese tech companies recently, couldn’t believe what he was seeing: two-legged robots, walking around an office in Hangzhou.

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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