"Are you a lobster?" is the first question Wang had for the BBC. He had been so consumed recently by the AI assistant OpenClaw - which in China has earned the name "lobster" - that he wondered if he was talking to AI, rather than a journalist. After being assured I was indeed human, the young IT engineer explained how he had "fallen deep into" AI and, especially, OpenClaw. Driven by encouragement from the very top of China's leadership, the world's second-biggest economy has embraced artificial