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After outrunning Bolt, China's robot champion races towards real-world work
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Kyodo News This week
Korean Battery Sector Eyes Humanoid Robots as Next Growth Engine
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Bloomberg This month
AI Sapiens K1
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Hacker News When no one is watching, will an AI kill an innocent?
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Hacker News Two Unitree G1 EDU Humanoid Robot Flaws Enable Root RCE, One Starts Over Bluetooth
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The Hacker News Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn
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Covered by 2 sources S. Korea to spend 2.3 tln won through 2030 on full-stack humanoid development
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Yonhap News Agency The Humanoids at China’s Robot Games Were Faster Than Usain Bolt—but I’m More Impressed by Their Tweezer Mastery
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Wired I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.
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MIT Technology Review XPeng’s Robotics Unit Valued at $6.3B After Investment
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AI Business XPENG Robotics Raises $900M+ First Round at $6.3B+ Valuation
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Covered by 2 sources Galbot Robots Complete 100 Consecutive Autonomous Tennis Rallies
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Covered by 2 sources XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding
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AI News (TechForge) Chinese robots beat human 100-meter, 400-meter records at Beijing games
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Kyodo News Unitree’s Blockbuster Debut Vaults Billionaire Founder Into Ranks Of China’s Richest Tech Moguls
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+1Covered by 4 sources Humanoid Robot Shipments Up 300%: Up To 30,000 So Far In 2026
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Forbes From robot dogs to helpers, China puts robotics ambitions on display at world conference
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Kyodo News Nvidia’s SONIC Teaches Humanoids to Move
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AI Business The Humanoid Robot Games Events Are A Market Map
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Forbes Unitree unveils a robot it says can run faster than Usain Bolt ahead of its IPO
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Covered by 2 sources American Humanoid Robot Launches For Just $1,688, Delivery This Fall, Made In San Francisco
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Forbes Nvidia executive to visit LG Electronics robotics hub on Tuesday
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Yonhap News Agency Unitree, China’s humanoid robot champion, lists in Shanghai on 19 August after record demand
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The Next Web LG to Release Nvidia-Powered Humanoid in 2027
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AI Business How the US Ban on Chinese Humanoid Robots Could Affect the Industry
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AI Business DeepSeek Invests in Unitree to Develop AI Brain for Humanoid Bots
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AI Business Google DeepMind Releases Gemini 2 Humanoid Model
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AI Business DeepSeek Buys Into Unitree’s Shanghai IPO in Humanoid AI Pact
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Unite.AI Google DeepMind tests Gemini Robotics 2 doing chores around the house, and the future looks bright!
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Mashable FCC Blocks Chinese Humanoid Robot Imports, Citing Security Risks
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AI Business Samsung creates a CEO-led robotics division to chase humanoid robots
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The Next Web Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom
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The Next Web Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs
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The Next Web ‘Listing is a must’: China’s LimX raises $200m as the humanoid IPO race heats up
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The Next Web Humanoid robots just removed organs from live animals for the first time
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The Next Web Robots swept RoboCup 2026, and they’re coming for the human World Cup by 2050
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The Next Web China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands
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The Guardian China approves Unitree’s Shanghai listing registration, valuing IPO at $619M
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The Next Web Why Is a San Diego Charter School Spending $500,000 on Two Humanoid Robots?
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Gizmodo Humanoid robot maker EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO
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The Next Web Nvidia looks beyond China’s Unitree for its humanoid robot push
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The Next Web A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.
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The Next Web China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one
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The Next Web Barclays says humanoid robots can offset 60% of China’s 37M worker shortfall by 2035
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The Next Web The company that outsells Tesla on humanoid robots just unveiled a pilotable mecha. Unitree is filing for a $7 billion IPO.
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The Next Web China’s humanoid robot boom faces reality check as 150 companies chase a market where only 23% of buyers are satisfied
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The Next Web Meta missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids
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The Next Web OpenAI-backed 1X opens California factory targeting 10,000 home humanoid robots in year one
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The Next Web Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment
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The Guardian NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7: Open Reasoning VLA Model for Humanoid Robots
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Hugging Face Tesla’s China chief calls Shanghai factory a ‘golden key’ to mass-producing humanoid robots
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The Next Web Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is offering $18M to hire a chief AI scientist
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The Next Web BMW Group brings humanoid robots to Germany
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The Next Web That's everything we have on Humanoid Robots right now