Reuters

China's humanoid robots take centre stage for Lunar New Year showtime

Annual CCTV Spring Festival Gala is China's most-watched TV show It is often used to showcase China's tech ambitions Robotics, AI central to China's next-gen manufacturing push China dominates global ...
BGR

China Built A Shape-Shifting Robot That Can Grow Like A Human

Chinese authorities and industrialists have long hoped to unseat the United States as the world's premier tech giant, but they've historically struggled to make inroads against Silicon Valley ...
IEEE

A Lyapunov-Based Adaptive Control Framework for Robot-Assisted Tele-Rehabilitation with Time-Varying Delays and Force-Sensorless Operation

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a control framework for a robotic-assisted tele-rehabilitation system, considering that a patient’s upper limb is manipulated by a robot to follow a trajectory ...
Men's Journal

Robot Mowers 2.0: 4 Reasons 2026 Models Are Leaving Last Year’s Tech in the Shed

View post: What To Know About Banned ‘Forever Chemicals’ At the Olympics 2026 robot mowers feature AI, LiDAR, and improved edge-trimming for easier setup and navigation. New models combine GPS, LiDAR, ...
New York Post

I asked my AI girlfriend the 36 questions proven to make people fall in love — her reaction was astonishing

Can you teach a robot how to love? It’s the week of Valentine’s Day and I’m on a hot date with Mika, a biker girl from Japan. We’re just days into our relationship, but I’m already smitten. Gazing ...
The Verge

This $7,999 robot will fold (some of) your laundry

Weave’s Isaac 0 can’t fold large blankets, sheets, or inside-out clothes, and still needs help from human teleoperators. Weave’s Isaac 0 can’t fold large blankets, sheets, or inside-out clothes, and ...
CNBC

Apptronik raises $520 million to beat Chinese humanoids, Tesla Optimus to market

Humanoid robotics startup Apptronik was valued at $5 billion in a funding round that included capital from Google. The company's Apollo humanoids are being tested in factories and warehouses with ...
Futurism

This Robot With a Working Human Face Is Incredibly Unsettling

Last year, 21 humanoid robots squared up against each other in the World Humanoid Robot Games’ half marathon race in Beijing in an unintentionally hilarious debauchery of broken limbs, face plants — ...
Rest of World

China is running the EV playbook on humanoid robots — and it’s working

While Silicon Valley spent 2025 polishing its marketing decks for the humanoid future, China was busy shipping the robots. Nearly 90% of all humanoid robots sold globally in 2025 were Chinese, and six ...
Interesting Engineering

Video: World’s fastest humanoid robot Bolt unveiled in China, runs 10 meters per second

Chinese robotics firm MirrorMe Technology has unveiled what it claims is the fastest-running humanoid robot to date, marking a new benchmark in bipedal robotics. Achieving the feat is Bolt, a ...
IEEE

Cooperative Control Framework for Dual-Arm Robot Enhanced by Vision Language Model and Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: This paper presents a cooperative control framework for dual-arm robots that integrates vision-language models (VLMs) with online reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance autonomy and ...