While uh the US spends 12 times more on compute this from the private sector versus the Chinese private sector uh China is spending 42% more on the robotic sector uh than the United States and apparently this gap is going to widen so this is two very different uh I would say modalities but I think that the robotic race, especially the AI component of it, uh, is a really exciting one and it's where China actually has distinct advantages, not just in the hardware, but potentially the software, too.
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