Beijing's Robot Mall: Your Last-Minute AI-Powered Christmas Shop

A new mall in Beijing offers a futuristic solution for last-minute holiday shopping. It is being called the world's first major consumer robot store. The shopping center features a wide range of robotic products and demonstrations. Visitors can watch robot baristas make coffee, see humanoid robots play football, and observe machine-dogs dance. Other robots are designed to play games like chess. This mall is part of a larger national effort in China to advance robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. AI refers to computer systems built to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. Our correspondent visited the site to see the robots in action.