Hold onto your charging cables—Chinese engineers said “screw dancing, let’s arm the bots” and handed a humanoid robot a full-on sword for the Chinese New Year. Meet Linghu Chong 2.0, twirling, slashing, and doing kick-flips like it’s auditioning for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Transformer. With 55 degrees of freedom (still short of human hands, so we’re safe… for now), this Robotera L7 is basically the kung-fu sequel we didn’t know we needed. Skynet called—it wants its choreography back!

They Gave a Robot a Sword