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How watching humans work could teach the next generation of factory robots
A robotics engineer explains how first-person camera footage of people doing real tasks could cut the time and cost of training industrial robots.

AGIBOT's Head of North America Will Explain How to Bring Humanoid Robots Out of the Lab at RoboBusiness 2026
Yinghao Song will walk through the real business case for factory-floor robots on October 20 in Santa Clara, covering costs, supply chains, and what it takes to make humanoids pay for themselves.

The 'Edge AI Wall': Why Putting Powerful AI Into a Robot Body Is Harder Than It Sounds
Robots and self-driving vehicles face a crunch that more batteries and bigger chips cannot fix. Here is the problem in plain English.

Inside Shanghai's Robot Carnival: China's Push to Make Humanoids Everyday
Families queued, children cheered robot duels, and a humanoid performed drunken boxing. A day at a Shanghai robotics showcase reveals how China is betting on machines that walk, fold laundry, and brew 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. The chief executive of audio AI company Treble explains why poor hearing and weak 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. 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. What each one does, and why that distinction is harder to prove than it sounds.

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.