An employee checks his mobile phone as he walks past displays of robot heads, at the office of humanoid robots developer Ex-Robots in Dalian, Liaoning province, China on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





The head of a humanoid robot is pictured at the office of developer Ex-Robots in Dalian, Liaoning province, China on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





Employees work at the office of humanoid robots developer Ex-Robots in Dalian, Liaoning province, China on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





Heads for humanoid robots lie on a table at the office of developer Ex-Robots in Dalian, Liaoning province, China on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





Humanoid robots developed by Ex-Robots are displayed at the company's EX Future Technology Museum in Dalian, Liaoning province, China on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





A humanoid robot stands at the office of developer Ex-Robots in Dalian, Liaoning province, China on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





Faces for humanoid robots lie on a table at the office of developer Ex-Robots in Dalian, Liaoning province, China on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





A woman wearing a face cover chats with a man as they visit the Forbidden City in a hot and sunny day in Beijing, Sunday, June 9, 2024. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Competitors cheer before a race in the annual dragon boat race to celebrate the Tuen Ng festival in Hong Kong, Monday, June 10, 2024. (Photo by Chan Long Hei/AP Photo)





Competitors take part in the annual dragon boat race to celebrate the Tuen Ng festival in Hong Kong, Monday, June 10, 2024. (Photo by Chan Long Hei/AP Photo)





A child looks at a dragon's head in the annual dragon boat race to celebrate the Tuen Ng festival in Hong Kong, Monday, June 10, 2024. (Photo by Chan Long Hei/AP Photo)





A woman shelters from the sun with an umbrella as she rides a bicycle along a street on a hot day in Beijing on June 12, 2024. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





Giant panda Fu Bao dines at its enclosure in the Shenshuping giant panda base of Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on June 12, 2024. Fu Bao, the first giant panda born in the Republic of Korea, met the public on Wednesday morning after returning to southwest China's Sichuan Province, the hometown of pandas. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A cub of giant panda Ran Ran eats bamboo shoot at Ya'an Bifengxia Base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda during an organised media tour in Ya'an, Sichuan province, China, on June 12, 2024. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





This aerial photo shows a truck driving past a landslide site after storms in Liuzhou, in southwestern China's Guangxi province on June 13, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





People take a rest as they check a sleep cabin during the International Exhibition of Senior Care, Rehabilitation Medicine and Healthcare (CHINA AID 2024) at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) in Pudong district of Shanghai on June 13, 2024. (Photo by Héctor Retamal/AFP Photo)





A large number of citizens and tourists are tasting crayfish at a lobster banquet in Huai'an, China, on June 13, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Workers sail a boat on the surface of the water of a pearl mussels farm in Jiujiang, in central China's Jiangxi province on June 15, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





This photo taken on June 17, 2024 shows a woman wearing a facekini cooling off by a beach in Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A woman wearing sun protective clothing walks by a lingerie advertisement poster outside a shopping mall on a hot and sunny day in Beijing, Monday, June 17, 2024. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)