Xiaomi Put Its Humanoid on an 8-Hour Car Factory Shift. Here’s What It Didn’t Tell Us
Xiaomi says its humanoid robot sorted car parts for a full work shift and started tidying apartments. The key numbers are still missing.
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Meta Built Its Home Robot With a Chinese Partner. Should That Robot Live in Your House?
Meta’s humanoid prototype Max was built in Shanghai with China’s Fourier in three months. Speed on one side, cameras in your living room on the other.
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Noetix’s $1,400 Humanoid Robot Is a Bet on a Smarter Brain Later
Noetix’s 37-inch Bumi humanoid sells for about $1,400 in China. Here’s what it does, what it costs in the US, and the bigger bet behind it.
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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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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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This Robot Remembered Three People After They Changed Clothes
Three testers swapped clothes and places. The robot still knew who was who, and which car each of them wanted.
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Tesla Is Building Hundreds of Optimus Robots a Week. The Hands Keep Breaking
Tesla now builds several hundred Optimus robots a week and wants 20,000. But the hands break, and each job still takes days to teach.
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A Humanoid Walked Into 30 Homes It Had Never Seen. It Finished the Chore 56% of the Time.
Figure sent a human-shaped robot into 30 rented homes to do chores. It finished the job 56% of the time, with no setup in any house.
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Agility’s Digit 5 Sits Down Rather Than Risk Falling on a Coworker
Agility’s new Digit 5 robot sits down on the floor rather than risk falling on a worker. Orders top $300 million, but none are working yet.
