Midea unveils Miro U, the world’s first six-arm wheel-leg humanoid robot

Midea has officially unveiled its next-generation humanoid robot, Miro U, at an event in Guangzhou, China. The robot is the ...
Scientific American

Why Humanoid Robots Still Can’t Survive in the Real World

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

A Chinese humanoid robot walked 66 miles in 3 days, right into the Guinness World Records

A Chinese company says its AgiBot A2 robot walked from Suzhou to Shanghai, "all while adhering to traffic regulations." ...

Does China Have a Robot Bubble?

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.
Futurism

Elon Musk Said Grok 4 Was the “Smartest AI in the World,” But Its Leaderboard Scores Just Came Out and They Tell a Different Story

Elon Musk has been boasting about what he says are the incredible capabilities of xAI’s new Grok 4 AI chatbot. “Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines, simultaneously,” ...
WRAL

In the race to attract the world's smartest minds, China is gaining on the US

Hong Kong (CNN) -- A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians.