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2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker
Long confined to the lab, humanoids finally appear ready to work in manufacturing. There are just a few hurdles to get them ...
‘Maybe Happy Ending’: Darren Criss’ New Musical Shows the Lovesick Side of AI
Darren Criss tells Rolling Stone about this fresh musical and how online fandom has changed his career for the better.
Neuralink's third brain implant patient regains speech with help from Elon Musk's AI bot
An Arizona man has become the third person in the world to receive Neuralink's brain implant - letting him 'speak' again in ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN14d
Chores to cracking jokes: Watch humanoid robot butler awing audience during TED talk
In a TED Talk, US robotics firm 1X Technologies featured its humanoid NEO, a robot designed to help people with home chores.
Business Insider15d
Humanoid robots tripped and fell and took down a handler during a half-marathon in Beijing
During a March press conference, Li Quan, deputy head of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, said the robots were given about three and a half hours to finish the course.
RTE Online16d
China pits humanoid robots against humans in half marathon
Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing today, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km course. The robots from ...
The Australian Financial Review16d
China’s first robot marathon runners trip, emit smoke, fall apart
Some of China’s best humanoid robots took on the challenge of racing against human marathon runners on Saturday. One fell at the starting line. Another’s head fell off and rolled on the ground.
New York Post17d
Humanoid robots join runners for half-marathon — but some of the droids struggled to find their footing
Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile ...
TechCrunch17d
Robots run a half-marathon, slowly
At one point, Little Giant (the shortest competitor, at 30 inches in height), paused as smoke emerged from its head. The Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half Marathon featured robots built by ...
Wired17d
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half-Marathon in Beijing
The performance of the other humanoids was mostly disastrous. One robot called Huanhuan, which has a humanlike head, only moved at the speed of a snail for a few minutes while its head shook ...
The Independent17d
Robots race against humans for first time in Chinese half-marathon
Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course.
Channel NewsAsia Singapore17d
China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon
BEIJING: Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday (Apr 19), the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a ...