The Rundown: Who has the first robot Mall?

China opens world’s first robot mall
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The Rundown: Coinciding with the 2025 World Robot Conference, China launched its first-ever robot mall in Beijing’s E-Town district, a four-story, 4K-square-meter (13K-square-feet) retail complex dedicated entirely to humanoid and service robots.
The details:
The world’s first “humanoid robot 4S” retail space is modeled on the auto industry’s 4S formula of Sales, Service, Spare Parts, and Surveys.Shoppers can browse and test over 100 robots from 40+ domestic brands, spanning mechanical butlers, robotic pets, and industrial-grade humanoids. Prices range from 2K yuan ($278) for entry-level bots to multimillion-yuan bots powered by chips that handle up to 275 trillion operations per second.Government subsidies as high as $14K encourage both enterprises and consumers to deploy robots in work and daily life.
Why it matters: This marks the world’s first retail environment built exclusively for robots, melding a tech showroom, commercial hub, and live R&D testbed under one roof. China is backing robotics with more than $20B in subsidies, and a sleek new retail space like this is a major flex.

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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