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* The 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games are happening this week * Robots are performing better than ever across 51 events * Stopping a sprinting robot remains a major engineering challenge The World Humanoid Robot Games are underway in Beijing, China, and records set by flesh and blood humans are tumbling: these bots
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Most smart home products on the market stop feeling smart the moment the internet goes down. Some might continue working, but their more advanced features commonly depend on cloud services that could disappear at any time. For users who prefer to keep their devices under their own control, Joseph DiGiovanni
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Artificial intelligence is no longer something graduates learn about after they enter the workforce. It is the language of the workforce itself. Machine learning models now approve loans, computer vision systems inspect factory lines, and large language models draft code alongside junior engineers. The question facing universities is no longer
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China's Unitree Robotics has unveiled a new humanoid robot dubbed Superman, and it can reportedly run faster than Usain Bolt. It's also been shown to jump about 6.6 feet high from a standing position, making it terrifying in multiple ways. After what it claims was
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By 2035, industrialized countries that lead in robotics could see factory productivity increase significantly, while the value generated by manufacturing may grow substantially. Even today, automation is changing how factories operate—and recent global crises have made its importance impossible to ignore. Robots do not get sick, take unexpected leave,
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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. The 9.58-second 100-meter dash record set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been outpaced by Chinese robots participating at the World Humanoid Robot Games
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Hugging Face has retained bankers to test the market for a sale at a valuation of $13bn or higher, according to Business Insider, which reported that talks are early and that no bidder has been identified. It is a striking development for a company that has spent the past decade
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Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation model, days after raising roughly $10.2bn in a Hong Kong share placement whose proceeds it has earmarked entirely for AI. The sequencing is not subtle, and it is not meant to be, since the company has spent
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The first robot vacuum I ever owned was a Neato Robotics XV Signature Pro in 2015, and it couldn’t distinguish a mouse from a sock. I learned this the hard way when I returned from a trip and found that my robot vacuum had run over a glue trap
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Lead story -Meaning, meet action! Why context engineering needs context We said "no good AI without data quality" - we were wrong (kind of). We thought "you need to serve up the right context for thx LLM" - wrong again, kind of. The most effective type
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Galbot says its robot completed more than 100 consecutive autonomous tennis rallies against former world number 15 Zheng Jie at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The rally count, the autonomy claim and the robot’s identity all rest on the company’s own account. A robot spent Saturday
