From ‘AI slop’ to world models, bubbles and small models: What to expect from AI in 2026
People getting peeved with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) did not go unnoticed by dictionaries in 2025. A couple…
LG teases a new chore-completing home robot
LG is getting ready to take the wraps off a new robot it claims is capable of performing…
LG to unveil humanoid robot at CES 2026 to handle daily chores
South Korean tech giant LG Electronics will present LG CLOiD, its new home assistant robot, at the upcoming…
Japan’s NTT to deploy more than 1,000 autonomous buses and robot taxis
May Mobility is one of four startups that Japanese telecommunications group NTT has partnered with or invested in. TSUBASA…
From Labubus to robot vacuums: Afterpay shares New Zealand’s quirkiest buys in 2025
LED facemasks were particularly popular with women too, who bought 69% of the nearly 430 sold through the…
Device advances medicine towards a future that might see tiny robots sent into people’s bodies
“In the future, let’s say 100 years, anything a surgeon does today, we’d love to do with a…
YouTuber bypasses AI ethics, successfully gets robot to shoot him in chest in chilling video
In a chilling social experiment, a YouTuber demonstrated how easy it was to bypass the safety protocols of…
Tesla Optimus’s fall in Miami demo sparks remote operation debate
A new video from a Tesla demonstration in Miami shows the Optimus humanoid robot falling during its presentation.…
A humanoid robot-shaped bubble is forming, China warns
A humanoid robot bubble could be brewing, warned China’s leading economic planning agency on Thursday. The alert comes…
Robot dog balances rolling load on back with tactile sensing tech
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new tactile sensing system that allows quadrupedal robots to carry…
Humanoid robots present an unprecedented dilemma for the economy
There is a lot of anxious talk in share markets about whether we’re in the midst of an…
China’s humanoid robot walks 65 miles nonstop
Chinese robotics company AgiBot’s A2 humanoid completed a 65 mile (106 km) cross-province trek, setting a Guinness World…