2+ week, 2+ day ago   (306+ words) Chinese engineers are zeroing in on one of the loftiest goals in applied robotics: fully automated cooking. According to CD, the basic cooking robot went through two live cooking demonstrations, stir-frying tofu as well as pork and green peppers. Per…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (580+ words) Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday. More than 2,000 humanoid robots were participating in the event,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (698+ words) The robot uprising may have to wait. For now, the machines are still running headfirst into walls, both literal and metaphorical. That reality was on grand display at the second iteration of the World Humanoid Robot Games, a five-day competition…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (200+ words) And finally, there is the reaction to these developments from AI application companies. Many of the leading ones have ramped up efforts to build on top of open-weight models, targeting lower costs and greater control. Three-body systems are notoriously difficult…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (379+ words) Forget AI taking our jobs. We might have to start worrying about robots surpassing us in slapstick humor instead. In a video taken of the practice runs at China’s World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, one of these robots sprints…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (602+ words) The CEO of a Chinese robotics company whose stock skyrocketed 460% after going public this week said humanoid robots might still be far away from their own “ChatGPT moment.” The 36-year-old CEO behind robotics company Unitree, Wang Xingxing, said Thursday the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (946+ words) At a sold-out conference in San Francisco for people who build robots, the robots were surprisingly hard to find. This week, 1,500 robotics investors, founders, and engineers packed a cavernous former Army warehouse at Fort Mason, overlooking San Francisco Bay and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (932+ words) Ukrainian soldiers are teaching their Western trainers how they use war robots on the battlefield. Ukrainian troops are receiving training on NATO soil in a Norway-led multinational effort called Operation Legio. Western military trainers share their best warfighting practices, and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (469+ words) Even one of robotics’ biggest names says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade. During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing said that…...