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Wayve says its Series D funding, plus capital from Uber, will support commercial trials of supervised autonomy in 2026 and consumer vehicles in 2027. The post Wayve raises $1.2B with plans to bring robotaxis to London appeared first on The Robot Report.

Humanoid Global Holdings Corp. (“Humanoid Global” or the “Company”) (CSE:ROBO, FWB:0XM1, OTCQB:RBOHF), a publicly traded investment issuer focused on building and accelerating a portfolio of pioneering companies in the humanoid robotics and embodied AI sector, is pleased to announce its capital deployment strategy outlook for 2026. Humanoid Global intends to pursue a

As humanoid robots move from research labs to the "robot gig economy" and specialized 7S retail stores, the industry is finding its first sustainable revenue streams through entertainment and rentals.

Physical Intelligence (Pi) is positioning its foundation models as a universal 'intelligence layer' for the industry, releasing new data that shows significant reliability gains for laundry-folding and industrial-packaging robots.

Amid the excitement over the humanoid performers at the Spring Festival Gala, it must be remembered that robotic advances should complement human welfare.

China's humanoid robots industry is booming, but analysts say the units showcased at the Spring Gala aren't all they seem.

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Figure CEO Brett Adcock has shared a look at the company’s "no babysitter" operations, detailing a fleet-wide autonomous docking and swapping system across a rapidly expanding five-building footprint.

Data centers for AI are turning the world of power generation on its head. There isn’t enough power capacity on the grid to even come close to how much energy is needed for the number being built. And traditional transmission and distribution networks aren’t efficient enough to take full advantage of all the power available. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), annual transmission and distribution losses average about 5 percent. The rate is much higher in some other parts of the world. Hence, hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure are investigating every avenue to gain more power and raise efficiency. Microsoft, for example, is extolling the potential virtues of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) as a replacement for copper wiring. According to the company, HTS can improve energy efficiency by reducing transmission losses, increasing the resiliency of electrical grids, and limiting the impact of data centers on communities by reducing the amount of space required to move power. “Because superconductors take up less space to move large amounts of power, they could help us build cleaner, more compact systems,” Alastair Speirs, the general manager of global infrastructure at Microsoft wrote in a blog post. Superconductors Revolutionize Power Efficiency Copper is a good conductor, but current encounters resistance as it moves along the line. This generates heat, lowers efficiency, and restricts how much current can be moved. HTS largely eliminates this resistance factor, as it’s made of superconducting materials that are cooled to cryogenic temperatures. (Despite the name, high-temperature superconductors still rely on frigid temperatures—albeit significantly warmer than those required by traditional superconductors.) The resulting cables are smaller and lighter than copper wiring, don’t lower voltage as they transmit current, and don’t produce heat. This fits nicely into the needs of AI data centers t...

The spotlight at this year's Spring Festival Gala wasn't reserved solely for performers and celebrities, as a lineup of cutting-edge humanoid robots made their highly anticipated debut, generating waves of adulation on social media at home and abroad, and sending consumer interest in homemade bots to a new high.

NVIDIA has released SONIC, a generalist humanoid controller trained on 100 million frames of motion data, aiming to replace manual reward engineering with a scalable "System 1" foundation for whole-body movement.

NVIDIA GEAR Lab has released DreamDojo, an open-source world model pretrained on a massive 44,000-hour dataset of human egocentric videos. By using "latent actions" to bridge the gap between human and robot movement, the model achieves zero-shot generalization and real-time controllability for teleoperation and planning.

NORD said it allows engineers to verify whether the drive concept is suitable for the system early in the planning phase. The post NORD releases digital twin simulation platform for robotics developers appeared first on The Robot Report.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a synchronized martial arts demo by humanoid robots and cuddling robot pandas! Plus Perseverance finds itself.

Amazon Robotics grounded the Blue Jay project after only six months, redirecting resources to other fulfillment projects. The post Amazon Robotics shuts down Blue Jay sortation project appeared first on The Robot Report.

As AI video generators like ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 achieve near-perfect physics and lighting, the humanoid robotics industry faces a "crisis of truth" where real milestones and high-fidelity fakes are becoming indistinguishable.

Following its viral performance at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala, Unitree’s G1 humanoid is now available for direct purchase on Amazon, albeit with a significant price markup and strict development limitations.

The humanoid robots are coming! Agility Robotics' Digit gets yet another paying job ... this time making RAV4's with Toyota.

2025 LASA/CREATE/EPFL CC BY SA. By Celia Luterbacher With its opposable thumb, multiple joints and gripping skin, human hands are often considered to be the pinnacle of dexterity, and many robotic hands are designed in their image. But having been shaped by the slow process of evolution, human hands are far from optimized, with the […]

Shortly after hosting the world’s first robot-led gala, Shanghai-based AgiBot has unveiled the Expedition A3, a full-sized humanoid capable of high-difficulty aerial martial arts maneuvers.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada is expanding its commercial trials for Digit from three humanoids to 10. The post Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada to deploy Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoids appeared first on The Robot Report.

Fresh off a nearly $1 billion Series A, the humanoid startup is ready to show off its next big thing.

Agility Robotics, creator of the general-purpose humanoid robot DigitⓇ, has announced that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) has signed a commercial agreement with the company. After a successful pilot, TMMC plans to deploy Agility’s robot, Digit, in its facilities to support employees with manufacturing, supply chain and logistics operations. “Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada has long been a leader […] The post Agility Robotics Reveals Commercial Agreement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada appeared first on Humanoid Robotics Technology.

Amazon’s Frontier AI & Robotics team reveals Perceptive Humanoid Parkour (PHP), a framework that allows bipedal robots to autonomously vault, climb, and adapt to changing environments in real-time.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada plans to deploy humanoid robots at its assembly plant in Woodstock that builds RAV4 sport utility vehicles.

Humanoid robots took center stage at China's annual Spring Festival Gala, performing acrobatic dances and kung fu routines. The performance dominated Chinese social media and sparked mixed reactions and debate over the future of robotics in entertainment.

Another Unitree G1 collapsed during a performance, injuring a safety personnel (facial bleeding and fracture). Each time a G1 collapses, it is forced to get up (RL policy), but this doesn't always succeed. Clearly, Unitree needs to fix this and adjust its safety mechanisms. For… https://t.co/s9wjrVPgBP pic.twitter.com/1cr8CSaVVr

Ottonomy built Ottumn.AI on NVIDIA's infrastructure to integrate delivery systems for healthcare, logistics, and smart cities. The post Ottonomy builds Ottumn.AI platform to orchestrate robots, drones, and smart infrastructure appeared first on The Robot Report.

The market for robot dancers, alas, is limited

The Chinese robotics company plans to ramp up its humanoid production fourfold this year, after shipping 5,000 robots in 2025.

The back-flipping, nunchuck-weilding humanoid robots may have delighted and amazed viewers at China’s annual televised new-year extravaganza with their kung-fu choreography.

FRANKFURT, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The CEO of Infineon Technologies told daily Handelsblatt that the German semiconductor maker is well-positioned to...

The CEO of Infineon Technologies told daily Handelsblatt that the German semiconductor maker is well-positioned to benefit from a future boom in the market for microchips used in humanoid robots.

A Whole Bunch of Robots Sending New Year Greetings to Everyone!🥳 The same model of the 'Kung Fu Bot' at the Spring Festival Gala, Cluster Cooperative Rapid Scheduling System. pic.twitter.com/jr7dezXa1a

China Media Group's 2026 Spring Festival Gala drew widespread attention with a performance of humanoid robots that appeared to do martial arts alongside young performers

Artificial intelligence is transforming the robotics field at a rapid pace, according to the International Federation of Robotics or IFR. The post IFR releases position paper on AI in robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.

At 10 a.m. sharp, two 1.3-meter-tall humanoid robots in a storefront in Wuhan, capital city of central China's Hubei Province, sprang to life, twisting and turning in perfect sync to a rhythmic beat. The conclusion of their dance coincided with the country's first-ever 7S humanoid robot store officially opening for its daily business, Xinhua reports.

A fleet of Unitree G1 humanoid robots just took over China's 2026 Spring Festival Gala with 3-meter flips and high-speed kung fu routines.

A Whole Bunch of Robots Sending New Year Greetings to Everyone!

Advances in motor design have allowed different types of robots to both specialize for industrial functions and converge in precision. The post How motor design enables different types of robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

From drunken boxing martial arts to family-oriented comedy skits, China’s leading robotics firms transformed the world’s most-watched television event into a massive public stress test for humanoid viability.

Beijing startup RoboParty open-sources Roboto Origin, a full-stack humanoid prototype, attracting 1,000+ GitHub Stars globally.

"The Street Dance of China" Turning lightness into gravity, and rhythm into impact.This is a head-on collision between metal and beats. 🤖🦾 This Chinese New Year, watch PNDbotics Adam bring the heat with a difference. pic.twitter.com/SOShc525Pc

China's most-watched TV show, the annual CCTV Spring Festival gala, will be viewed later on Monday as a showcase for the country's cutting-edge industrial policy and Beijing's push to dominate humanoid robots and the future of manufacturing.

AGIBOT, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, has accelerated its Thailand market entry through a multi-day strategic engagement program showcasing deployment-ready humanoid robots aligned with the country’s Smart Tourism and digital innovation ambitions. The program, held from February 11–13, marks a key milestone ahead of AGIBOT’s planned official market entry into Thailand later in 2026. During the visit, AGIBOT introduced

SPG Targets 5,000 Humanoid Actuator Sales as Robot Market Expands South Korean component maker leverages precision reducers and in-house motor tech to compete in global humanoid robot race

A new robot out of China can change its shape by inflating or deflating, and its creators hope it can be put to use for search and rescue operations.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA is helping to improve absolute accuracy for robots. The post High-precision robots: What to do when absolute accuracy is poor? appeared first on The Robot Report.

UK robotics startup Humanoid has released a 19-minute documentary showcasing the backend scenario of building humanoids under time pressure.

A new behind-the-scenes documentary from UK startup Humanoid details the company’s aggressive development cycle, its "Capability Factory" AI strategy, and a commercial pipeline that has already secured 30,000 pre-orders.

Cathie Wood and ARK Invest see Tesla's Optimus robot as a transformative force for industry, homes, and the broader economy.

A freshly viral video shows a Robotera L7 unit performing an intricate sword dance to ring in the Chinese New Year.

The RoBee M series brings AI perception and autonomous navigation to hospital wards to support motor and cognitive therapy.

Ahead of the Chinese New Year, a festive atmosphere fills malls and streets across China, with robots joining the celebrations. Dressed in vibrant red, they dance, play music, perform lion dances, write "Fu" in calligraphy, showcase kung fu moves

MicroVision, a solid-state sensor technology company located in Redmond, Wash., says it has designed a solid-state automotive lidar sensor intended to reach production pricing below US $200. That’s less than half of typical prices now, and it’s not even the full extent of the company’s ambition. The company says its longer-term goal is $100 per unit. MicroVision’s claim, which, if realized, would place lidar within reach of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) rather than limiting it to high-end autonomous vehicle programs. Lidar’s limited market penetration comes down to one issue: cost. Comparable mechanical lidars from multiple suppliers now sell in the $10,000 to $20,000 range. That price roughly tenfold drop, from about $80,000, helps explain why suppliers now are now hopeful that another steep price reduction is on the horizon. For solid-state devices, “it is feasible to bring the cost down even more when manufacturing at high volume,” says Hayder Radha, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University and director of the school’s Connected & Autonomous Networked Vehicles for Active Safety program. With demand expanding beyond fully autonomous vehicles into driver-assistance applications, “one order or even two orders of magnitude reduction in cost are feasible.” “We are focused on delivering automotive-grade lidar that can actually be deployed at scale,” says MicroVision CEO Glen DeVos. “That means designing for cost, manufacturability, and integration from the start—not treating price as an afterthought.” MicroVision’s Lidar System Tesla CEO Elon Musk famously dismissed lidar in 2019 as “a fool’s errand,” arguing that cameras and radar alone were sufficient for automated driving. A credible path to sub-$200 pricing would fundamentally alter the calculus of autonomous-car design by lowering the cost of adding precise three-dimensional sensing to mainstream vehicles. The shift reflects a broader industry trend toward soli...

Figure CEO Brett Adcock has shared a sneak peek of the company’s 7th-generation robotic hand, showcasing advanced degrees of freedom including thumb rotation and finger abduction/adduction.

Elon Musk has a tremendous vision for robotics and the mass adoption of this kind of technology. Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management CEO Ross Gerber sits down with Josh Lipton to talk more about the Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) CEO's plans for his Optimus humanoid robots and how the broader tech industry is reacting. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend.

Realbotix, which showed its humanoids at CES 2026, illustrates how technology can mature past adult entertainment, writes columnist Oliver Mitchell. The post Realbotix makes transition from novelty to embodied AI appeared first on The Robot Report.

Synopsys ramps up work around physical AI to help build adaptive machines capable of sensing and interacting with physical environments

Research from the University of Victoria reviews the current use and future potential of social, empathic humanoid robots--asking the question: Could an empathic robot be a part of your future healthcare team?

Trener Robotics’ Acteris is a robot-agnostic skills platform that lets operators describe the tasks they want to automate in their own words. The post Trener Robotics raises $32M for robot-agnostic skills platform appeared first on The Robot Report.

Unitree Robotics has released footage of its G1 humanoid performing assembly tasks at its own manufacturing facility, powered by the new UnifoLM-X1-0 model—marking a pivotal shift from marketing stunts to industrial utility.

Onconetix, Inc., (Nasdaq: ONCO) (“Onconetix” or the “Company”), (formerly Blue Water Biotech Inc), and Realbotix LLC. (“Realbotix”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Realbotix Corp. (TSX-V: XBOT) (“Realbotix Parent “), today announced the signing of a definitive share exchange agreement pursuant to which Onconetix will acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Realbotix in an all-stock transaction.

Shanghai Roboparty Technology Co., Ltd. officially open-sourced its flagship bipedal humanoid robot ROBOTO ORIGIN in January 2026, with its R&D completed in just 120 days from April to August 2025. As the world’s first-tier full-stack open-source bipedal humanoid robot, ROBOTO ORIGIN is a prototype verifying end-to-end capabilities from “0 to running” (not an industrial-grade product) and has […] The post RoboParty Launches ORIGIN: a Full-Stack Open-Source Bipedal Humanoid Robot appeared first on Humanoid Robotics Technology.

Developing a durable and affordable hand is one of the biggest challenges in robotics.

One of the key challenges in building robots for household or industrial settings is the need to master the control of high-degree-of-freedom systems such as mobile manipulators. Reinforcement learning has been a promising avenue for acquiring robot control policies, however, scaling to complex systems has proved tricky. In their work SLAC: Simulation-Pretrained Latent Action Space […]

On February 9, 2026, the launch conference of the inaugural Global Humanoid Robot Free Combat League, Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL), was held. The event was initiated by Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (ENGINEAI) and co-organised by Shenzhen Quanmingxing Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. As the world’s first commercial free-combat competition focused on humanoid robots, […] The post Humanoid Robot Combat League URKL Officially Launched appeared first on Humanoid Robotics Technology.

In a revealing interview with Peter Diamandis, Figure CEO Brett Adcock details the total removal of hand-engineered code, the launch of his new AI lab HARK, and the timeline for robots building robots at Figure’s "BotQ" facility.

Fauna Robotics has released a comprehensive technical report detailing the design, software architecture, and safety philosophy behind Sprout, its developer-ready bipedal platform.

Fauna Robotics has introduced Sprout, a 29 degree of freedom humanoid developer platform powered by NVIDIA compute, targeting safer and smaller robotics research. The post Fauna Robotics Unveils Sprout 29 DOF Humanoid Developer Platform appeared first on Humanoid.guide.

By stripping away the legs and the wheels, Weave Robotics is attempting to ship a functional home laundry robot by February 2026—beating mobile competitors to the living room.

RoboParty has released the full-stack designs and software for its first bipedal humanoid, signaling a new wave of "reproducible" open-source robotics that seeks to avoid the capital-intensive pitfalls of its predecessors.

The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center has unveiled the Tiangong 3.0, a general-purpose platform featuring 43 degrees of freedom, millimeter-level precision, and a major push toward open software and hardware standards.

SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On February 9, 2026, the launch conference of the inaugural Global Humanoid Robot Free Combat League — Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) — was held. The event was initiated by Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (ENGINEAI) and co-organized by Shenzhen Quanmingxing Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. As the world’s first commercial free-combat competition focused on humanoid robots, the launch was witnessed by representatives from the

Following the reveal of its GENE.01 concept at CES 2026, Italian startup Generative Bionics has signed a four-year industrial partnership with shipbuilding giant Fincantieri to deploy autonomous welding robots in heavy manufacturing.

Geek+ launched Gino 1, the world’s first warehouse-native humanoid robot, aiming to unlock a trillion-dollar automation market still dominated by manual labor.

Foundation Robotics opens the doors to its San Francisco "Robo Factory 1," showcasing the manual assembly of the Phantom MK1 and a new bio-inspired tendon-driven hand.

Amanda McMaster, the company's CFO, will take over as interim CEO until Boston Dynamics' board of directors finds its next leader. The post Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down appeared first on The Robot Report.

Boston Dynamics is focusing on manipulation, autonomy, and generalization to prepare Atlas for factory environments.

Alibaba has unveiled RynnBrain, a new embodied AI model built to help robots understand space, memory, and physical movement.

The latest force torque sensors provide the levels of sensitivity and reliability needed for industrial cobot applications. The post High-sensitivity torque sensors offer force feedback for small-payload cobots appeared first on The Robot Report.

Destro AI says its new Agentic AI Brain is hardware-agnostic and treats both people and robots as agents for unified, cloud-based management. The post Destro AI launches Agentic AI Brain for human-robot collaboration appeared first on The Robot Report.

How humanoid AI will redefine privacy, trust, and dignity

Chinese humanoid robot makers used Lunar New Year performances to showcase mobility, dexterity, and interaction as they court customers, investors, and partners. The post Chinese humanoid robots take Lunar New Year demo spotlight shows appeared first on Humanoid.guide.

The world's first-ever free robot combat league commenced in China's Shenzhen province, showcasing the country's tech advancements.

Brooklyn-based Reflex Robotics is moving into mass production with a new facility in Nuevo León, Mexico, promising to create 2,000 jobs and scale its "human-in-the-loop" automation platform.

Meet the recipients of the 2026 IEEE Medals—the organization’s highest-level honors. Presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors, these medals recognize innovators whose work has shaped modern technology across disciplines including AI, education, and semiconductors. The medals will be presented at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in April in New York City. View the full list of 2026 recipients on the IEEE Awards website, and follow IEEE Awards on LinkedIn for news and updates. IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR Sponsor: IEEE Jensen Huang Nvidia Santa Clara, Calif. “For leadership in the development of graphics processing units and their application to scientific computing and artificial intelligence.” IEEE FRANCES E. ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM Luis von Ahn Duolingo Pittsburgh “For contributions to the advancement of societal improvement and education through innovative technology.” IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL Sponsor: Nokia Bell Labs Scott J. Shenker University of California, Berkeley “For contributions to Internet architecture, network resource allocation, and software-defined networking.” IEEE JAGADISH CHANDRA BOSE MEDAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Sponsor: Mani L. Bhaumik Co-recipients: Erik Dahlman Stefan Parkvall Johan Sköld Ericsson Stockholm “For contributions to and leadership in the research, development, and standardization of cellular wireless communications.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google Karen Ann Panetta Tufts University Medford, Mass. “For contributions to computer vision and simulation algorithms, and for leadership in developing programs to promote STEM careers.” IEEE EDISON MEDAL Sponsor: The Edison Medal Fund Eric Swanson PIXCEL Inc. MIT “For pioneering contributions to biomedical imaging, terrestrial optical communications and networking, and inter-satellite optical links.” IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. Wei-Jen Lee University of Texas at Arlington “For contributions to advancing electrical...

Few robotics technologies have been actually deployed in high-mix applications. Let's explore the reasons behind this slow transition. The post 11 reasons robots struggle to scale in high-mix manufacturing appeared first on The Robot Report.

The Mentee Bot is a mentorable AI-driven robot that learns directly from human instruction rather than relying on remote teleoperation.

AutoPallet debuts magnetic, ceiling-mounted AMRs at Manifest 2026, providing high-density palletizing through a suspended swarm architecture. The post Flipping the script: How ‘upside-down’ AutoPallet robots solve palletizing density appeared first on The Robot Report.

Artemis, depending on whom you ask, is NASA’s bid to reclaim its heritage, to resume the business of human exploration, to take astronauts to the moon and beyond and win what’s been billed by some U.S. politicians as the “new space race” with China. Artemis II, the project’s first circumlunar test mission with a crew, is now preparing for launch, perhaps in March. If it succeeds, and if NASA can deliver on an 18 December executive order from the Trump administration, Artemis astronauts will land near the moon’s south pole by 2028 and start building a lunar outpost by 2030, steps to “ensuring American space superiority.” But there are influential voices in the American space community who warn that unless things change quickly, the race has already been lost. “We cannot control what China is doing,” said Michael Griffin in congressional testimony in December of last year. He was NASA administrator from 2005 to 2009, when the agency began assembling the hardware for what is now Artemis. “We can only control what we are doing. Of those efforts, I am forced to say that mediocrity would be an improvement.” RELATED: NASA’s Rivalry/Not-Rivalry With China’s Space Agency Takes Off “Look at the architecture that we have developed to land American astronauts on the moon,” said JIm Bridenstine in his own testimony in September. He was NASA administrator from 2018 to 2021, when Artemis was named as America’s new lunar venture. “It is extraordinarily complex.” Other NASA veterans have expressed the same worry. They say that Artemis, with its much-delayed Space Launch System rocket, Orion crew capsule, and—most critically—two competing, unproven lunar landers, is hobbled by its history of convoluted, meandering decision-making. They say it needs better organization, perhaps even a new landing ship, even at this late date. Meanwhile, the Chinese space program claims it’s on track to a lunar landing by its stated goal of 2030. In Western eyes, China does not have superior technol...

FRANKFURT—According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), artificial intelligence remains the top automation trend affecting manufacturers today.

The hunt is on for anything that can surmount AI’s perennial memory wall–even quick models are bogged down by the time and energy needed to carry data between processor and memory. Resistive RAM (RRAM)could circumvent the wall by allowing computation to happen in the memory itself. Unfortunately, most types of this nonvolatile memory are too unstable and unwieldy for that purpose. Fortunately, a potential solution may be at hand. At December’s IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), researchers from the University of California, San Diego showed they could run a learning algorithm on an entirely new type of RRAM. “We actually redesigned RRAM, completely rethinking the way it switches,” says Duygu Kuzum, an electrical engineer at the University of California, San Diego, who led the work. RRAM stores data as a level of resistance to the flow of current. The key digital operation in a neural network—multiplying arrays of numbers and then summing the results—can be done in analog simply by running current through an array of RRAM cells, connecting their outputs, and measuring the resulting current. Traditionally, RRAM stores data by creating low-resistance filaments in the higher-resistance surrounds of a dielectric material. Forming these filaments often needs voltages too high for standard CMOS, hindering its integration inside processors. Worse, forming the filaments is a noisy and random process, not ideal for storing data. (Imagine a neural network’s weights randomly drifting. Answers to the same question would change from one day to the next.) Moreover, most filament-based RRAM cells’ noisy nature means they must be isolated from their surrounding circuits, usually with a selector transistor, which makes 3D stacking difficult. Limitations like these mean that traditional RRAM isn’t great for computing. In particular, Kuzum says, it’s difficult to use filamentary RRAM for the sort of parallel matrix operations that are crucial for today’s neural netwo...

Shenzhen-based EngineAI has officially launched the Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) league, revealing a massive prize pool, strict technical rules, and a tournament format designed to stress-test the next generation of humanoid hardware.

Boston Dynamics gives Atlas one final acrobatic stress test, showcasing how simulation-trained control is shaping real-world humanoid robots.

The world's first humanoid robot free combat league kicked off on Monday in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province, for the 2026 season, with the winner to be awarded a gold championship belt worth 10 million yuan ($1.44 million), the Global Times learned from the event’s organizer.

Humanoids took to the stage to sing, dance, and perform comedy in the world's first-ever entertainment show run entirely by robots.

AgiBot hosted a 60-minute live-streamed event featuring its full fleet of robots alongside a hyper-realistic collaborator from AheadForm.

Humanoid Robot Market reached US 2 24 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach US 41 02 billion by 2032 growing at a CAGR of 43 83 during the forecast period of 2025 to 2032 The market is witnessing ...

The 60‑minute programme is the world’s first large‑scale live event fully led by humanoid robots, showcasing dance, magic, comedy and music.