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Inside Shanghai's Robot Carnival: China's Push to Make Humanoids Everyday
Families queued up, children cheered robot duels, and a humanoid performed drunken boxing. A day at a Shanghai robotics showcase reveals how China is betting big on machines that walk, fold laundry, and make coffee.
Robots Can Move. They Can See. So Why Can't They Hold a Conversation?
Humanoid robots are impressive to watch, until you try talking to one. A specialist in audio AI explains why poor hearing and bad voice interaction could be the thing that stops robots from ever being widely accepted.
Google's new robot brain can watch, plan, and tag-team with other robots
Gemini Robotics ER 2 gives machines a smarter high-level 'thinker' that tracks progress on video and hands the actual moves off to a lower-level controller.
One Robot Brain, a Thousand Hands: How Generalist's GEN-1 Model Learns to Use Any Tool
A robotics startup has trained a single AI model to switch between screwdrivers, tongs, spatulas and whisks mid-task. Here's what that means for the future of robot design.
AGIBOT launches four robots at WAIC 2026, including a humanoid built for eight-hour shifts
The Shanghai company says its newest machines are ready for factories, service desks, and classrooms, not just one-off demos. Here is what each one does and why that distinction matters.
A Chinese robotics startup wants to build the 'recipe' that gives robots general intelligence
X Square Robot is open-sourcing an AI stack that aims to do for physical robots what large language models did for text. The approach is interesting. The independent evidence is still thin.