Ryan Knutson

You know, they have weapons, and you don't want to call those a dog, I guess.

Yeah, my dog would never carry— I would never give my dog a gun.

For China, the rapid advancement of humanoid robots is opening up all kinds of possibilities.

Meanwhile, over in the U.S., tech companies are watching this with envy and also concern.

Coming up, what the U.S.

is doing to catch up.

I'll be back.

In the U.S., there are only a few players working on humanoids.

One that you might have heard of is called Boston Dynamics, with their viral videos of slick, silver robots that can sprint and do backflips.

And then there's Tesla.

The EV maker also has its own line of humanoids called Optimus.

How does Elon Musk talk about humanoid robots?

Elon Musk's vision is very big.

So he envisions, you know, optimists and humanoids in general to be in factories.

You know, they can do domestic chores, housework.

They can do surgeries and even travel to Mars to colonize the planet.

So he has a very broad and ambitious vision when it comes to humanoids.

In January, during a Tesla earnings call, Musk talked about his ambitions for Optimus.

Optimus is already deployed inside factories for Tesla and some other companies it deals with.

The robot is advancing fast.