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Nineteen humanoid robots alongside 120 dancers: a striking WorldSkills Shanghai demonstration. The next question is how that coordination translates beyond a planned performance.

We trained a robot to play football. How? Self-play for 140 years in a virtual World Cup. Meet the #Messinator:

A glimpse of what XPENG IRON can do. It knows who’s talking. Remembers 100+ people. Switches languages with you. Answers questions with the latest information online, while local knowledge stays available offline. Same VLA brain, same Turing chips as our cars. The companion adapts to you. Finally.

Today, we launched the world’s first automated production line for advanced general‑purpose humanoid robots, using robots to mass‑produce robots, autonomously. This was uncharted territory, and we solved it from scratch. The commissioning of our production line means humanoid robots are now ready to scale up and step into the real world. What touched my heartstrings most was watching our very first advanced general‑purpose humanoid robot complete assembly and walk off the line on its own. To me, this is not just about a smarter tool or a commodity. I hope it gains true generalization ability to take on dangerous, repetitive, or undesirable tasks, and ultimately make life better. Perhaps one day, robots may become our companions, friends, or part of family. Grateful to every colleague on this momumental mission. And a warm welcome to IRON!

Not every “driverless” car is autonomous. Ehsan Zafar Abbasi’s internet-controlled prototype lost control during an Islamabad demo and rolled into a parked police van—a very literal reminder that every remote system needs a fail-safe. Video: Muhammad Aalijah.

⚡A humanoid robot just ran 100m in 9.39 seconds, faster than Usain Bolt's world record of 9.58! World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 has just started in Beijing!

Ultra-bionic robots at the ongoing World Robot Conference in Beijing — priced at 120,000 RMB (around $17,000 USD).

Galbot ET1 Debut at WRC

Introducing Nori the $1688 humanoid Opening a limited batch that will ship this fall Order yours below

China now has two booster-recovery paths. LandSpace’s Zhuque-3 Y2 put Honghu-03 in orbit, then landed its first stage on legs—the country’s first land-based orbital-stage recovery. Next: inspection and reflight. Credit: LandSpace.

Unitree says its new “Superman” prototype reached 12.66 m/s (45.6 km/h) over a timed 10 m segment—slightly above Usain Bolt’s estimated 12.42 m/s peak. It also demonstrated a ~2 m standing jump after just over three months of development. Video: @UnitreeRobotics

Two ~$100K humanoid robots just fought in a San Francisco cage. REK bills it as America’s first full-size humanoid robot fight. The EngineAI T800s were teleoperated—not autonomous—and Japan’s Hiroyuki Osone beat the U.S. pilot. Footage: @REK

A first glimpse of the wildest robotics project of my PhD. 🛹 The Blind Skateboarder 🛹 No vision. No markers. Paper, code, weights — coming soon. And we have more. 😉

China’s EV marketing has entered its Fast & Furious era. Voyah says a production-spec electric SUV hit ~130 km/h and completed a full 360° loop inside a closed tunnel—driving upside down across the ceiling, with no CGI. Just physics and a very brave stunt driver.

Introducing Cues: Voice & Gesture control for Matic We raised $115M and spent 9 years to make the world’s first intuitive home robot Say you spilled coffee: Point to the spill and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and it will hear, see, locate in 3D, and go clean on its own. Matic comes with a lot of features: 1. Say "Hey Matic" - it locates your voice, turns, and looks at you 2. Say "Hey Matic, follow me" and start walking. Matic will follow behind 3. Say "Hey Matic, go clean the living room". Since it knows your house map, it navigates and just does it It's so easy, a 5 year old and an 80 year old can use it and it understands 75 different languages. Matic has 8x the airflow, specialised cleaning algorithms for rugs, corners, toekicks, mopping, etc and cleans better than any other robot vacuum. Also keeps improving with software updates. 13,000 families use and love Matic. WIRED magazine gave it a 10/10 (the only hardware to receive this rating in a decade) Buy yours at maticrobots.com and if you don't love it after 6 months, we'll give you a full refund. To celebrate our launch, we're cleaning 300 homes with Matic in San Francisco and New York City. Comment "Matic" below, we'll send you the link to sign up and come to your doorstep to clean your home with Matic.

You can now book two humanoids for our cleaning service in SF. One humanoid for 60 minutes is $30, two are $60. You can book a cleaning at tau-robotics.com. If you don’t have an invite code yet, join the waitlist. Timelapse at 5× speed (~40 minutes in real time).

108 arms. 300,000 cuts per hour. Viewer Tech’s 8-ton robot uses binocular vision to find and snip the terminal bud on each cotton plant—one of Xinjiang cotton’s last labor-intensive tasks. The company says it works 120× faster than manual topping. Video: Xinhua

Physical AI’s latest gold rush isn’t in a lab. It’s on India’s factory floors. Workers wear head cameras to record how they cut steel, sort waste and stitch shoes—sometimes for $12 a day. The irony: they’re teaching robots the skills that may replace them. Source: @Bloomberg

Unitree is dancing toward the Shanghai Stock Exchange at a $9 billion valuation. Its $900 million IPO drew retail orders worth more than 8,000× the initial allocation. The robots are performing. Investor appetite is the real spectacle.