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Inside the UN AI summit that attracted more visitors than ever

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Humanoid robots face off in Beijing’s first high school football final

44 school teams competed over six weeks in China’s first high school humanoid robot football competition. The robots played fully autonomously, using student-written code to pass, defend and shoot without remote control.

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China unveils a giant rideable robot straight out of sci-fi movie

A Chinese robotics company has started selling a giant pilotable robot. It costs €500,000, walks on two legs, and can also smash through walls. Welcome to the future?

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China’s Unitree unveils transformable humanoid ‘mecha’ robot with cockpit

Chinese robotics company Unitree Robotics unveiled a transformable humanoid “mecha” robot featuring a cockpit for a human pilot.

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Of robots and men: Europe’s AI solutions aim to overhaul e-commerce

AI-driven robots already pack, pick and sort items at e-commerce warehouses as humans would do — only faster, more efficiently and more accurately. Developers claim to work to minimise the social impact of a revolution they consider to be ’unstoppable’.

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Watch: Robot dogs with tech billionaires faces excrete AI art

Beeple says the work critiques how today’s perceptions of reality are increasingly shaped by algorithms controlled by powerful tech companies rather than artists.

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Elderly woman rescued by autonomous robot near Ukraine frontline

Video released by Ukraine’s Third Army Corps shows a four-hour rescue in Lyman, where a 77-year-old woman was saved by an autonomous vehicle after being spotted by drone pilots. The ground drone carried a blanket and a note reading: “Grandma, sit down!”

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Inside Japan’s real-life sci-fi town where robots coexist with humans

Developers say the aim of Woven City is to gather real-world data on how people and machines interact, helping improve safety and shape future regulations.

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Meet ACE: The robot that can beat table tennis pros with AI

A new robot developed by Sony can now take on top table tennis players, highlighting how quickly artificial intelligence is advancing into complex human skills.

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This Chinese robot just beat the human half-marathon world record

The winning robot ran the half marathon nearly seven minutes faster than the current human record set by Jacob Kiplimo.

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Humanoid robots box and perform at Hong Kong AI and robotics fair

Hong Kong’s InnoEX 2026 fair showcased boxing, musical and rescue robots, highlighting China’s push to integrate intelligent machines into daily life.

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Humanoid robots are lining up to compete in a half-marathon in China

More than 100 robots will compete in a half-marathon later this month, designed to push humanoid machines to their limits in real-world conditions.

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Meet the robot dog that could one day sniff out life on Mars

In recent trials, the dog-like robot completed missions three times faster than human-guided alternatives.

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Humanoid robot joins Melania Trump at White House education summit

Melania Trump hosts a White House roundtable urging over 40 countries to expand children’s access to digital education, AI tools and online safety.

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Melania Trump brings humanoid robot to White House education summit

The First Lady unexpectedly kicked off a White House summit on global education and technology by arriving with Figure 3, a humanoid robot.

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Venezuela deploys robotic dogs for patrols in Caracas

Two robotic dogs are now patrolling public spaces in one of Caracas’s wealthiest districts. Officials say the technology is meant to support, not replace, police officers on the ground.

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Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics, a startup making kid-sized robots

Amazon has just acquired Fauna Robotics, which is developing “safe and fun robots for everyone".

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