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Unbelievably beautiful show by Unitree at the Chinese New Year celebration. The choreography? Flawless. Synchronization? Surgical. Stage presence? Honestly better than half the pop industry. Friendly assistants are final…

🤖 “Hand-motion farms” are real — and they’re training robot hands. In parts of India, workers strap a small camera to their forehead and spend hours doing simple, tactile tasks: folding towels, packing boxes, sorting ev…

Cyberpunk remote work, IRL. Operators in the Philippines—paid about $250/month—are remotely piloting shelf-stocking robots in Japanese stores. Today it’s teleoperation; tomorrow it’s training data. The real question: how…

🤖 Sergey Levine: "Robot Mistakes Are Not Failures, But a Way to Learn" Sergey Levine is a professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of Physical Intelligence. His team develops foundational models for robots, enabling them…

🚕 Driverless Cars Can't Be Fined In San Bruno, California, police have discovered a loophole in traffic laws: autonomous vehicles can't be ticketed, since state law only punishes human drivers. For example, a Waymo robo…

🦾 AI-Powered Robotic Arms Raise $120 Million Dyna Robotics has raised $120 million from Nvidia, Amazon, Salesforce, Samsung, and LG's investment funds, reaching a valuation of $600 million. Since 2024, the business has…

🤩 A Robo-Nurse Found a Job at a Hospital in Taiwan The autonomous AI robot Nurabot is currently undergoing trials at Taichung Veterans General Hospital, helping to reduce nurses' workload by up to 30%. It was developed…

🪼 Cyborg Jellyfish to Explore the World's Oceans Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have turned ordinary jellyfish into bio-robots by embedding microchips into them. These cyborgs will help explore t…

🤖 Artificial Brain Controls a Robo-Dog Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new method for growing human brain organoids using graphene. The resulting artificial mini-brain was succes…

🖼️ Apple Is Developing AI-Powered Home Robots According to rumors, Apple is working on a lineup of AI home robots. The main novelty will be a desktop companion robot, essentially an iPad mounted on a robotic arm, visual…

🛑 Robots Will Not Carry Babies (Yet) Last week, the media reported that in 2026, a Chinese company, Kaiva Robotics, plans to release 2026 an android purportedly capable of gestating a baby to term using an artificial wo…

🥇 China Hosts First "Olympics" for Robots From August 14 to 17, Beijing hosts the first World Humanoid Robot Games. The event draws 280 teams from 16 countries, ranging from school and university squads to major players…

🥁 Robot Learns to Play Linkin Park and Nirvana on Drums Researchers from Italy and Switzerland have trained a virtual robot to play drums at a human level. Scientists placed 8,192 virtual Unitree G1 robots in Nvidia's "…

🤖 "Underground" Robot Combats Debut in San Francisco An arena was set up in the basement of a 16‑story Frontier Tower. The whole vibe was pure cyberpunk: neon lights, techno beats, dazzling outfits, drinks in acid color…

🦾 Korean Scientists Have Created a Robotic Arm with a "Nervous System" Korean scientists have developed a technology that mimics the sensory system of living organisms. The nervous system reacts differently to neutral s…

🤖 Unitree R1: The World's First "Budget-Friendly" Android The Chinese company Unitree Robotics has launched the humanoid robot designed to assist humans with everyday tasks and capable of learning new skills. But its st…

China’s $6000 Humanoid Robot by Unitree Chinese startup Unitree Robotics has just unveiled its humanoid robot R1, priced at only $5,900 — a true game-changer in the world of robotics! 🤖 Weighing just 25 kg, R1 features…

🤖 Italian Engineers Have Created the First Flying AI Robot Italian engineers have developed the world's first flying humanoid robot capable of operating in extreme conditions. The AI-powered robot, named iRonCub3, stand…

🦾 Scientists Created an AI Hand That "Thinks" for Itself Researchers at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada have developed a prosthetic hand with artificial intelligence that autonomously recognizes and grasps…

🥊 The First Robot Boxing Tournament Took Place in China Hangzhou staged the first-ever boxing tournament featuring humanoid robots, with Unitree Robotics' G1 androids stepping into the ring. Before the competition, engi…

🤖 A 3D-Printable Humanoid Robot for $5,000 Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have built a humanoid robot— Berkeley Humanoid Lite—using standard low-cost parts and 3D-printed components. All design fil…

🥇 AI Becomes World Champion in Drone Racing In April, Abu Dhabi hosted the A2RL x DCL autonomous drone racing championship, where human pilots competed against AI-powered drones. 14 teams from various countries competed…

🧠 Cracking the Mystery of Consciousness with Robots and Quantum Computers Canadian startup Nirvanic unveiled a robotic kitten named KitCat at the MARS conference, hosted annually by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. KitCat tur…

🦿 Robots Ran Among Humans in Humanoid Half Marathon On April 19, 21 robots competed alongside 12,000 human marathoners in a 21.1 km endurance race in Beijing. The bots had a separate track but faced the same hills, heat…

🤖 What Is the Neo Home Robot Already Able to Do? The Norwegian startup 1X has been working on the AI-powered humanoid robot Neo for several years. The company has attracted more than $125 million in investment, includin…

🍷 Will Robots Replace Waiters, Bartenders, and Baristas? Since the pandemic, many cafes and restaurants worldwide have reported staff shortages. In the U.S., over 80% of food service businesses are actively hiring, 30%…

Scientists at Zhejiang University have unveiled a groundbreaking facial mask that can transform the wearer’s appearance in real time. Designed to potentially deceive facial recognition systems, the mask is composed of mu…

🦾 A Paralyzed Man Learned to Mind-Control a Robotic Hand Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, have created an AI-powered brain-computer interface (BCI) that enables a person who has been paralyz…

🤖 Why Do We Need Humanoid Robots? Our world is designed exclusively for humans: buildings are full of stairs and doors, warehouses have shelves at shoulder height, and so on. That's why robots with a human-like physique…