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scmp.com - Iris Deng - From phones to robots: China's supply chain eyes next growth curve in humanoid
From phones to robots: China's supply chain eyes next growth curve in humanoid
South China Morning Post

China's smartphone and electronics supply chain is adapting its expertise to support the country's fledgling but fast-growing humanoid robotics industry, as component suppliers seek new growth beyond a slowing mobile market. The sector received a…

gizmodo.com - Wes Davis - Ecovacs Deebot X12 OmniCyclone Review: AI Can't Save This Robot Vacuum
Ecovacs Deebot X12 OmniCyclone Review: AI Can't Save This Robot Vacuum
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

In my last robot vacuum review, I let on a little about how I test these products. I let them run in a clean house, sure—but with a kid in my home, things get messy fast. After I get through a few tests, I schedule it up and let it go off on…

kgw.com - Katrina Morgan - This humanoid robot is about to be made at a much larger scale
This humanoid robot is about to be made at a much larger scale
kgw.com

HAYWARD, California — The company behind one of the most talked-about humanoid robots says it is scaling up production. In some cases, they're even using robots to help build more robots. 1X Technologies said it has begun full-scale…

theregister.com - Dan Robinson - Royal Navy chief backs drones, robot ships
Royal Navy chief backs drones, robot ships
The Register

The leader of Britain's Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can continue to defend the nation and operate overseas. In a speech at the defense and security…

fortune.com - Emma Burleigh - Eventbrite CEO sold her company for $500 million-without a job for the first time since 15, she's playing chess with a robot and eyeing internships
Eventbrite CEO sold her company for $500 million-without a job for the first time since 15, she's playing chess with a robot and eyeing internships
Fortune

Twenty years ago, Julia Hartz ditched a budding career at MTV and FX, drove up the coast of California, and bootstrapped ticketing platform Eventbrite with her two cofounders. Now, the longtime CEO wakes up to a blank outlook calendar; Hartz sold…

channelnewsasia.com - Jonathan Roberts - Commentary: Can robots achieve true sporting greatness?
Commentary: Can robots achieve true sporting greatness?
CNA

BRISBANE, Australia: A humanoid robot recently made headlines around the world for running a half-marathon and beating the human world record. Around the same time, an AI-powered robot defeated an elite human player in table tennis. What the robot…

globaltimes.cn - Chi Jingyi in Guangzhou - Surgical robots, AI diagnostics, capsule gastroscopy: Chinese smart healthcare shines at Canton Fair
Surgical robots, AI diagnostics, capsule gastroscopy: Chinese smart healthcare shines at Canton Fair
Global Times

A foreign buyer (first from right) tries AI pulse diagnosis, along with facial and tongue analysis, at the smart healthcare zone of the 139th Canton Fair in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, on May 2, 2026. Photo: Chi Jingyi/GT…

cyprus-mail.com - Elephant trunk inspires the universal robot gripper
Elephant trunk inspires the universal robot gripper
Cyprus Mail

EU-funded researchers have developed a soft robot that moves like an elephant's trunk – precise enough to pick fresh fruit, yet powerful enough to help lift a patient. Lucia Beccai, an expert in soft robotics at the Italian Institute of…

arkansasonline.com - Ryan Anderson - Higher Education Notebook: Arkansas Tech robotics team honored | Accreditation for UCA nursing simulation center | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Higher Education Notebook: Arkansas Tech robotics team honored | Accreditation for UCA nursing simulation center | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Online

ATU robotics team finishes runner-up Arkansas Tech University's robotics team recently finished runner-up in the 2026 VEX U Robotics World Championship, its best-ever performance in the contest. The VEX U Robotics World Championship drew teams from…

techxplore.com - Jonathan Roberts - Robots can run a marathon and play ping pong. But will they ever achieve true sporting greatness?
Robots can run a marathon and play ping pong. But will they ever achieve true sporting greatness?
Tech Xplore

A humanoid robot recently made headlines around the world for running a half-marathon and beating the human world record. Around the same time, an AI-powered robot defeated an elite human player in table tennis. What the robot lacked in experience…

9news.com.au - Eleanor Wilson - 'Grandma, get in': Ukrainian woman's remarkable rescue from war zone by robot
'Grandma, get in': Ukrainian woman's remarkable rescue from war zone by robot
9News

An elderly Ukrainian woman has been rescued from a war zone by a robot after struggling to escape her war-torn town on foot. Antonina, 77, had been hiding in a basement in the Donetsk region for four months before she and her family took…

marketbeat.com - Robotics Stocks Worth Watching - May 2nd
Robotics Stocks Worth Watching - May 2nd
MarketBeat

5 Stocks Racing Ahead as AI Supercharges Robotics Teradyne, Serve Robotics, and Ouster are the three Robotics stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. 'Robotics stocks' are shares of publicly traded companies that…

hoodline.com - Emily Johnson - Hayward Robot Plant Gears Up To Crank Out 100,000 Home Helpers
Hayward Robot Plant Gears Up To Crank Out 100,000 Home Helpers
Hoodline

Hayward just turned into one of the Bay Area's most sci-fi job sites. Robotics firm 1X Technologies has fired up full-scale production of NEO, its home humanoid robot, inside a newly opened 58,000-square-foot factory. The plant already employs more…

abc7chicago.com - Humanoid robot named Bebop causes Southwest Airlines flight delay out of Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport
Humanoid robot named Bebop causes Southwest Airlines flight delay out of Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport
ABC7 Chicago

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to San Diego arrived more than an hour late Thursday after an unusual traveler -- a humanoid robot -- prompted a runway delay. The 70-pound robot, named Bebop, was traveling…

scmp.com - Zongshuai Fan - Opinion | Beyond subsidies: what's really driving China's industrial climb
Opinion | Beyond subsidies: what's really driving China's industrial climb
South China Morning Post

Driven by intensifying competition in advanced manufacturing, the world is waking up to “ China shock 2.0 ”. The first “shock”, associated with China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, focused on…

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