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Emma the joke-telling robot cracks up the care home: Paula Hornickel’s best photograph

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‘The first resident that Emma – a social robot – was introduced to was called Peter. After that, Emma assumed they were all called Peter, which everyone found hilarious. Then she broke down’One morning in July 2025, I arrived in the small, quiet town of Albershausen in south-west Germany. It has only around 4,000 inhabitants. […]

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Robot runner handily beats humans in half-marathon, setting new record

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Humanoid robots outran the fastest human competitors while surpassing the human world record during a half-marathon event held in Beijing on April 19. The demonstration of fast-improving robotic speed and autonomy comes as China’s tech industry is rapidly scaling up mass production of humanoid robots to explore possible uses in the real world. The fastest

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Robot dogs now read gauges and thermometers using Google Gemini

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Robots such as Boston Dynamic’s four-legged Spot can now accurately read analog thermometers and pressure gauges while roaming around factories and warehouses. Those improvements come courtesy of Google DeepMind’s newest robotic AI model that aims to enhance robotic capabilities for ‘embodied reasoning’ when interacting with physical environments. The new Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 model announced on

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From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability

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Robotic machine learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says “crosses into production-level success rates” on “a broad range of physical skills” that used to require the dexterity and muscle memory of human hands. Generalist is also touting the new model’s ability to respond to disruptions by improvising new

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‘System malfunction’ causes robotaxis to stall in the middle of the road in China

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Distressed riders who were stranded for hours say Apollo Go customer service agents offered ‘useless platitudes’A “system malfunction” has caused several self-driving robotaxis to stall in the middle of the road in China, police have confirmed, after distressed riders were stranded for hours.Local authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan said they began receiving

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Melania Trump and AI powered robot named ‘Figure 3’ open White House summit – video

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Melania Trump entered a White House event in lock step with an AI-powered robot at the opening of the inaugural Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition summit. At the summit, the first lady urged nations to work together to improve access to education and technology for children around the globe. The humanoid robot, ‘Figure 3’,

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Esther Perel provided couples therapy for a man and his AI ‘girlfriend’ and now I fear for the human race | Emily Mulligan

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The relationships therapist sat down with a lovestruck man and his chipmunk-voiced companion. But could the bot provide him with what he really craved?I heard celebrity therapist Esther Perel provide a couples counselling session for a man and his AI “girlfriend”. As a result, my soul will never know peace.Something very, very drastic needs to

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Inside China’s robotics revolution

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How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out Chen Liang, the founder of Guchi Robotics, an automation company headquartered in Shanghai, is a tall, heavy-set man in his mid-40s with square-rimmed glasses. His everyday manner is calm and understated, but

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A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

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Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci-fi movie?It sounds like the opening of a sci-fi film, but US scientists recently uploaded a

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Nvidia and UK Wealth Fund invest in British autonomous driving startup Oxa

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Oxford-based firm has raised $103m for commercial development of software for self-driving industrial vehiclesNvidia is investing in the British autonomous driving startup Oxa, alongside backing from the UK’s National Wealth Fund, in a boost to the country’s technology sector.The Oxford-based company, which has developed software for self-driving industrial vehicles, said it had raised $103m (£77m)

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