A robot fish broke Reddit, and yes, it's a surveillance drone
China's BG-5 robotic arowana became a spy-gadget meme at CIFTIS. The joke is half right — it's built for port recon.
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Figure's humanoid tidied 30 homes it had never seen before
Figure's Helix 2.5 did chores in 30 Bay Area homes with no retraining. It succeeded 56% of the time, against 9% for a model trained from scratch.
Robots building robots: one humanoid every 10 minutes
UBTech's Liuzhou plant now rolls out a humanoid every 10 minutes — 10,000 a year, with robots doing much of the assembly.
GPT-6 Astra got a robot arm and taught itself to paint
A user hooked OpenAI's week-old Astra to a robot arm and a camera. It learned the controls and painted the Golden Gate Bridge, better on every try.
The Terminator walked SF last night. A human was driving.
EngineAI's T800 humanoid strolled San Francisco streets — teleoperated by REK Robots, the fight-club startup that imported the first one to the US.
Qualcomm's humanoid robot dropped dead on stage at Computex
Neura's 4NE1 folded mid-demo in Taipei. Qualcomm says it was a safety feature, not a crash. The internet disagreed.
Google's Gemini Robotics 2 wants to be one brain for every robot
DeepMind's new VLA model controls humanoids head-to-toe, adapts to any two-armed robot in hours, and coordinates robot teams.
This 2m centaur robot walks into wildfires so humans don't
Satyress's Threehalves bolts a humanoid torso onto a four-legged base — and there's no AI in it. Just a human on a joystick.
DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Reads Gauges at 93% Accuracy
Google DeepMind's new robotics model lets robots inspect instruments, detect task success, and refuse unsafe actions — now live via API.
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