Facepalm: In what is yet more evidence that we shouldn’t fear the prospect of a robot takeover, a humanoid machine running Qualcomm’s hardware and boasting 700 TOPS of on-device AI processing collapsed like it had been shot during an on-stage tech demo. If that wasn’t bad enough, it happened right next to a Qualcomm executive, who seemed almost to die from shock rather than embarrassment. The robot was then covered with what looked like a body bag and carried away in shame. <\/p>\n
The incident occurred during Computex 2026, but it seems video of what happened has only recently surfaced online.<\/p>\n
The 4NE1 Gen 3.5 robot is from Qualcomm hardware partner Neura Robotics. It’s powered by Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ10 robotics reference design (RRD) and offers 6 to 8 hours of runtime with hot-swappable batteries, along with a 100 kg (220 pounds) payload and a 5-foot-9-inch frame.<\/p>\n
Robot powered by Qualcomm’s new AI chip dies mid-presentation<\/a> Like so many of these advanced humanoid robots we’ve seen in the past, this one walks onstage like it’d just vacated its bowels \u2013 were such a thing possible. It then patiently stands next to the exec as he shows off the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ10 RRD.<\/p>\n But it appears that 4NE1 Gen 3.5 grew weary of the speech and appeared to drop dead on stage. It collapsed spectacularly, folding backwards on itself like a gymnast. Several people rushed up and covered its broken body before struggling to haul it away. As a final humiliation, the robot was dropped onto the floor before making it out the door.<\/p>\n In true corporate fashion, Qualcomm has put a positive spin on the catastrophe. It wrote that the robot had performed its “safe-collapse” sequence as designed, lowering itself to its knees to protect the environment around it. One imagines Qualcomm would have been praising the machine’s data-securing self-destruction mechanism had it exploded on stage.<\/p>\n \u2013 Saint Javelin (@saintjavelin) November 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n
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