The $399 Robot Duck on Nvidia’s Stage Runs on a Chinese Chip
Jensen Huang put tiny walking robots on his Berlin stage. They cost $399, you teach them yourself, and the computer inside comes from China.
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What $100, $280 and $550 Actually Buy You in a Robot Vacuum
A cheap robot vacuum can clean well. The price tiers decide something else: how much of the work you still do yourself.
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Unitree’s New Robot Punches Cars and Blocks a Knife. Here’s What the Video Doesn’t Prove
Unitree’s H2-X dents cars, lifts one off a trapped dummy and steps in front of a knife. No price, no spec sheet, and no word on who was steering.
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Google’s AI Watched One Cornhole Video. Then a Humanoid Robot Sank Seven Straight
Google says its new Gemini 4 Argon model taught a humanoid robot cornhole from a single video. Here is what happened, and what Google left out.
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A Robot Took 46,686 Patient Questions. Should It Be the First Thing You Meet at the Hospital?
A half-size humanoid worked 66 days at a Beijing hospital help desk and took 46,686 questions. Useful helper, or a chatbot with legs?
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A woman blocked a delivery robot in Philadelphia. The police arrested her.
Carolyn Marvin, 78, has been standing in front of Uber Eats robots for months. This week it got her a disorderly conduct ticket.
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This Robot Mops Your Floor With Hot Water. It Still Loses to a Rug.
The Narwal Freo 20 left no streaks on a tester’s hard floors. On area rugs it left grit and dog fur behind.
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The drone that bounces instead of flying – and lasts eight times longer
A 35-gram drone with a rubber-band pogo leg hops for 50 minutes on one charge. Flying normally, the same machine dies after six.
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What a Chinese Humanoid Robot Really Costs — and Why the Sticker Price Lies
A walking humanoid starts at $4,290. The research version of a shorter robot costs $73,900. Here is what the headline number leaves out.
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Paid to Film Your Own Chores for Robots: Clever Side Hustle or Bad Bargain?
A Shanghai company rents you a camera headset and pays you to fold laundry so robots can copy you. The pay is tiny and the privacy questions are not.
