A child-robot has been created in China: what can it do?

The Chinese have made great strides in the development of robots. For example, scientists from this country recently taught a robot to ride a bicycle, and now the country has presented a humanoid robot at the Zhongguancun 2025 forum that behaves like a 6-year-old child.

This robot is an updated artificial general intelligence system developed by the Beijing Institute of Artificial General Intelligence. It shows the level of cognitive abilities of a 5-6 year old child.

The first version of the TongTong robot (2024) had the intelligence of a 2-3 year old child. The updated version shows the level of an older child, it has improved in speech, thinking, learning, emotions, movement, and interaction.

By the way, TongTong 2.0 cleans up toys and wipes up stains while learning in realistic digital environments. It forms its own personality, has a coherent dialogue, and even bargains or postpones tasks. For example, the robot can argue if asked to go to bed. It also communicates in several languages ​​and updates its own knowledge base.

To be continued…