Xinhua Unveils Bionic Humanoid Robot News Anchors with Ubtech – Unite.ai

Xinhua News Agency unveiled two bionic humanoid robot news anchors, Xinyu and Xinyan, developed with UBTECH and presented on November 5, 2026, at the Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Modernization forum in Beijing, which Xinhua describes as the world's first of their kind. The robots connect to Xinhua Yudian, the agency's AI current-affairs information agent and authoritative corpus, and UBTECH supplied bionic skin, embodied-intelligence hardware, an operating system, an emotional large model and full-robot manufacturing. Xinhua's Qian Tong framed the robots as a new editorial role supporting journalists with information presentation, multilingual output and live interaction, while planned uses include research and study bases, city reception venues, overseas cultural exchanges and deep-space exploration reporting.