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During a tech demo at a mall in Shenzhen, China, over the weekend, Xpeng's Iron humanoid robot took a tumble for all to see.

Chinese Humanoid Robot Does a Demon Twist and Faceplants With a Thud During Demonstration

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese robot company DroidUP showed off Moya, a "warm" robot that features human-like skin and eerily animated moving facial features.

This Robot With a Working Human Face Is Incredibly Unsettling

By Victor Tangermann

A man in a blue lab coat is inspecting or adjusting one of many humanoid AgiBot robots arranged in rows. The robots have black, glossy heads and silver and black bodies, standing on platforms with wheels. The background is plain white, emphasizing the robots and the man.

Trade Unions Alarmed by Robots Designed to Do Blue Collar Work

Dearborn police are the latest to make use of dystopian drone hives to surveil their cities from the skies.

Police in Detroit Suburb Install Hives That Can Instantly Deploy Drones to Fight Crime

A new render of China's conceptual spacecraft called the Luan Niao, an orbital mothership designed to launch uncrewed fighter drones from high above the planet.

China Provides Glimpse of Colossal Orbital Aircraft Carrier

In a new video, Figure's black-and-white humanoid robot, dubbed Figure 02, can be seen seamlessly unloading and loading a dishwasher.

New Helix Video Shows Robot Loading and Unloading Dishwasher Pretty Damn Well

By Victor Tangermann

Full-grown adults are embracing AI companion toys in China as the government tries to reconcile a tricky contradiction.

Chinese Adults Taking Strange AI Devices to Bed With Them

A video appears to show three Russian soldiers emerging with their arms raised and surrendering to a robot with a machine gun.

Russian Soldiers Seen Surrendering to Gun-Wielding Robot

By Victor Tangermann

The delivery robot apparently did not heed the extremely loud blare of the train horn moments before its doom.

Delivery Robot Gets Stuck on Train Tracks, Gets Obliterated by Locomotive

By Frank Landymore

Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested Tesla is ready to move on from the EV and is looking to capitalize on the next big hype cycle.

Elon Musk Says His Optimus Robot Is So Dope That People Will Forget Tesla Ever Made Cars

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Homeland Security released a new video featuring something striking: an officer operating a Chinese drone.

There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute

Kawasaki has announced that it's started to work on turning its ambitious vision for a four-leged robotic horse into a reality.

Kawasaki’s Robot Horse Is Going Into Production

By Victor Tangermann

During a live demo at this year's CES convention in Las Vegas, Boston Dynamics showed off the unnerving agility of its humanoid Atlas robot.

The Way Boston Dynamics’ New Robot Moves Is Skin-Crawlingly Unnatural

By Victor Tangermann

We're increasingly sure that humankind would catch an epic beatdown as humanoid robots show great advances in martial arts acumen.

If the War Against the Machines Is Fought Via Martial Arts, Humans Are Gonna Catch an Epic Beat Down

By Victor Tangermann

A man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him in the balls, forcing the man into a groaning heap.

Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack

By Sharon Adarlo

Engineers at Disney Research Hub have unveiled how they built a robot version of the talking snowman from the "Frozen" films.

Disney’s Robot Olaf Is a Straight Up Nightmare

By Frank Landymore