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NVIDIA’s SONIC trains humanoid G1 to use hands and feet for trash disposal
13+ hour, 1+ min ago (376+ words) Controlling humanoids by training on 700 hours of human motion The NVIDIA team developed a large-scale robot control framework called “SONIC” and published their findings on the 12th (local time) in the international journal Science Robotics. Recently, foundation models in AI have…...
Robots get sliced and diced at national ‘Kilobots’ championship
9+ hour, 30+ min ago (338+ words) CTV News Sparks were flying and robots fought to dismember each other at Kilobots 2026 National Championships Hosted at the Telus Spark Science Centre, more than 60 battling robots competed across three weight categories to take home the crown of the nationâ…...
Autonomous Lamp - Build your own AI companion robot in one tap
21+ hour, 37+ min ago (168+ words) Autonomous Lamp is the first of its kind. Everything you've shipped so far lives behind glass — a URL, a rectangle in a tab, forgotten in a week. This one has an alive body, eyes, and a mind. Browse 67+ skills in…...
Humanoid robots are already here—and they can crawl, breakdance, and backflip
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (399+ words) AI is revolutionizing how humanoid robots move Humanoid robots already have the ability to perform agile movements like crawling, breakdancing, and continuous backflips thanks to a new motion imitation framework. This system, published in the journal Science Robotics, reports Servimedia,…...
Study Explores Impact on Trust When Expressive Humanoid Robots Make Mistakes
1+ day, 28+ min ago (645+ words) A Drexel University-led study found that people formed stronger initial connections with an expressive humanoid robot but reacted more sharply when it made mistakes, suggesting that making robots more socially engaging can also make failures more damaging to trust. According…...
Op-Ed: Is America restricting itself out of the robotics market? It’s looking pretty weird.
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1296+ words) Polished, AI-generated code still needs a real review Why Canadian tech has to prove itself somewhere else Google unveils finder tag, new AI smartphone features China’s C919 jet makes first international commercial flight Fewer than half of CISOs can identify where…...
The "Schism" in Humanoid Robotics: Hype Goes Viral, But Practical Application Has "Short Legs"
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1640+ words) Gasgoo Munich- A subtle sense of "schism" hangs over the humanoid robot sector in 2026. On one side, the hype keeps building: smooth demos at trade shows are going viral, companies are piling into the space, and forecasters keep revising their…...
The humanoid robot that amazes with human mimicry, the price could exceed 170 thousand dollars
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (649+ words) At first glance, the video may look like a computer-generated scene from a science fiction movie. But the humanoid robot featured in it is real. Called "Origin-F1," the robot was developed by Chinese company AheadForm and has attracted attention for…...
LG to Unveil Its Next-Gen Humanoid Robot, Built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (612+ words) LG and NVIDIA Collaboration Moves Beyond Strategic Blueprints into Execution SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LG today announced they're developing a next-generation bipedal humanoid robot built using NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, NVIDIA's open reasoning humanoid foundation model, for a public unveiling in…...
Quote of the day by roboticist Rodney Brooks: 'The visual appearance of a robot makes a promise about what it can do and how smart it is' — a warning about the misleading form of a humanoid robot
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (335+ words) Just because engineers are building humanoid robots to look like us, that doesn't mean they're intelligent or even capable Humanoid robots are on the rise, with a slate of companies building several different prototypes. Whether they're designed to be on…...