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Striking Workers Bring Car Factory to a Screeching Halt Over Humanoid Robots
9+ hour, 56+ min ago (378+ words) Published Jul 18, 2026 10:00 AM EDT From the factories of Detroit to the postal warehouses in Shenzhen, a new kind of worker is clocking in — and the humans it’s replacing aren’t going down without a fight. In late June, thousands of rank-and-file workers…...
Brutal Humanoid Robot Cage Match Stops Abruptly When One of the Robot’s Heads Pops Off
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (441+ words) Published Jul 17, 2026 3:49 PM EDT You might wince at the professional spectacle of two humans beating each other to a pulp. But when it’s two robots? We want maximum carnage. Thankfully, the inaugural Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) competition in Shenzhen,…...
Robotaxis Are Turning Passengers Into Horrible and Entitled Menaces to Society
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (342+ words) Published Jul 16, 2026 11:57 AM EDT Robotaxis are multiplying across the US, and as they do, a not-so-flattering pattern is riding shotgun. Not only do robotaxi companies themselves put a significant strain on public resources, they’re training the public to act just…...
Startup Upset After Journalist Points Out How Creepy Its Humanoid Robots's Hands Are
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (465+ words) Published Jul 14, 2026 11:49 AM EDT The VP of a humanoid robotics company was in for a surprise after finding that a Wired article pointed out something extremely unsettling about the company’s robot fingers. Last week, Wired published a piece on Norwegian-American…...
Americans Are Raging About Autonomous Police Drones Swarming the Skies
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (315+ words) Published Jul 11, 2026 1:01 PM EDT Though drone-as-first-responder initiatives may not yet inspire the same knee-jerk opposition as Flock surveillance towers and data centers, fury is clearly growing as a more and more Americans are taking a stand against police drones. In…...
Major Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 Robots
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (255+ words) Published Jul 4, 2026 6:01 AM EDT One of the most powerful labor unions in the United States is furious, as over 1,000 workers at General Motors’ leading Detroit factory are being pushed out to make room for dozens of new robots. “It’s always…...
Factories Attaches Cameras to Workers, in Hopes of Replacing Them With Robots
2+ week, 3+ day ago (353+ words) Published Jul 1, 2026 9:45 AM EDT Today, sweatshop workers across the Global South are being made to pull double duty: both stitching clothes together, and training robots to put themselves out of work entirely. New reporting by the Guardian documented this emerging…...
NASA Prepping to Launch Extremely Risky Rescue Mission
2+ week, 5+ day ago (440+ words) Published Jun 29, 2026 10:19 AM EDT NASA’s Swift observatory, designed to study the most powerful explosions in the universe, launched into orbit over two decades ago. Since then, it has provided scientists with a constant stream of invaluable multi-wavelength observations of gamma-ray…...
Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses
2+ week, 6+ day ago (467+ words) Published Jun 28, 2026 9:50 AM EDT College campuses across the country will no longer be swarming with tiny rolling robots. Starship Technologies, a leading delivery bot company, announced earlier this month that it was ending its university operations and redeploying over a…...
Robot Seen on Street Begging for Change
3+ week, 1+ day ago (268+ words) Published Jun 26, 2026 8:44 AM EDT In today’s global economy, even robots are begging for help. In a now-viral stunt involving a Unitree G1, a humanoid robot was seen begging on the streets of Chengdu, China in order to get “help with electricity…...