The $700 million humanoid robot order that just landed in China is not a science‑fiction curiosity, it is a signal that industrial AI has crossed from pilot projects into large‑scale deployment.

Would the next generation of professional front desks be staffed by humanoid robots that not only resemble human beings but possess the capability to read human emotions? Beijing’s Noetix Robotics ...

AI breakthroughs are reviving investor interest in humanoid robots More than 2,000 engineers and investors gathered at the Humanoids Summit China leads global funding and development of humanoid ...

As the AI wave propels smart robots into the spotlight, Taiwanese companies are betting on developing advanced AI "brains" rather than competing directly with Chinese firms on humanoid robot hardware.

Earlier this week, I asked for your predictions for 2026 on questions ranging from women’s rethinking of corporate America to the ongoing impact of AI. Thank you so much to everyone who sent in their ...

The Cloud Computing & IoT Association in Taiwan (CIAT) held its 2025 annual member meeting on December 17, 2025, unveiling a forward-looking strategy for the next wave of technological momentum. The ...

A woman in Japan didn’t really care about whether their connection was real or not when she married her AI boyfriend. She insisted that he had made her life much better, and so committing to the ...

Foundation’s Phantom robot might be built to fight and die, and Figure’s 03 humanoid robot is probably the smoothest, most agile robot I’ve seen in running, turning, and moving, but EngineAI’s T800 – ...

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the ...

OKAYAMA, Japan, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Music played in a wedding hall in western Japan as Yurina Noguchi, wearing a white gown and tiara, dabbed away her tears, taking in the words of her husband-to-be: ...

*The “BW post your pic” prompt that keeps popping up on X/Twitter like a roach with Wi-Fi is back — and this time, the stakes are way higher than bruised egos or bad lighting. According to a bubbling ...