China leads in advanced humanoid hardware. Human hands have 27 bones and 27 joints for dexterity. Current robotic hands still struggle with fine tasks. Most humanoid robots today are for entertainment, not work. Alex Zhou says working humanoids need life-like hands. Zhou calls robot hands the link to the physical world. LinkerBot is a Beijing-based startup in this field. The global humanoid robot market may reach $5 trillion. Last year saw 20,000 humanoid robots installed globally. Only a few thousand are actually working.

• $5 trillion projected humanoid robot market
• 20,000 humanoid robots installed globally last year
• low thousands of working machines