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China’s second World Humanoid Robot Games brought together 2,056 registered robots and 666 teams. The event highlights a real manufacturing and robotics gap with India, though India’s progress in automation and domestic AI models complicates claims that it has done nothing or faces imminent robot soldiers.
Travelling Mantra Manoj says after visiting China that India is “at least 100 years behind” and could fall further back. The century figure has no stated benchmark and is rhetorical, but World Bank data support a substantial underlying gap: China’s 2025 nominal GDP per person was about five times India’s, while India’s own human-development indicators…

The graphic’s broad regional comparison is directionally supported, but its figures are nominal GDP per capita—not personal income—and mix 2026 IMF projections with latest available data for Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The more important finding is that India’s per-person output remains low despite its large aggregate economy; the projected Bangladesh crossover is narrow and not…

