China's robot dancers limber up for America's Got Talent final

Chinese street dancer Wu Yufei has spent most of his 13-year career performing solo, but this year, he found some new partners: a crew of robots with sleek moves.

The 27-year-old Sichuan native, together with his fellow robot performers, has made it to the final of "America's Got Talent" (AGT), a stage he had been hoping to reach for years.

A longstanding science-fiction fan, Wu told AFP from Pasadena, California, that dancing with robots in the group Homies gave him a "very magical feeling".

After months of training with them, his robot dancers now feel like more than just "cold, lifeless machines", he said.

"It almost feels as if there's a kind of team spirit there," Wu told AFP, as he and the dance crew of humanoids, made by Chinese robotics group Unitree, prepared for the AGT final this week.