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Elon Musk claims that the Tesla Cybertruck is the best robot currently available.
The article announces the unveiling of the Microduck, the world's first truly accessible reinforcement learning robot, a 25 cm open-source biped packed with sensors, and proposes a Microducks football tournament in San Francisco.
Thomas Wolf unveils Microduck, the first truly accessible open-source biped robot designed for reinforcement learning training.
Hugging Face has launched the Microduck, an open-source duck-like robot priced at $399, which can be trained with reinforcement learning and aims to democratize physical AI.
Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched the Microduck, a small, open-source, rollerskating robot priced at $399 with preorders available and shipping planned for before Christmas 2026.
A robot played ping pong with 2016 Olympic champion Ding Ning, demonstrating the ability to generalize to different paddle orientations and positions.
Matic is a home robot with integrated computer vision based on decades-old research, featuring 3D mapping, AI object recognition, and voice-controlled cleaning, designed for privacy and family use.
Google reports that Gemini Robotics ER 2 detects precise stopping moments with high accuracy (91.3%) but is far less reliable at classifying overall task progress (57.4%), raising questions about whether completion detection should be a separate safety layer.
The Treventus ScanRobot scans books at high speed without damaging spines, using a 60-degree V-cradle and airflow to turn pages while scanning both sides simultaneously.
A robot playfully performs a victory dance after knocking out its opponent in a fight, showcasing playful behavior.
A robot powered by Qualcomm's new AI chip malfunctioned and died during a live presentation, highlighting potential reliability issues.
Unitree introduces the As2-W, a wheeled-legged robot combining high-speed wheels with obstacle-overcoming legs, capable of climbing 80 cm obstacles and 45° slopes, with a 30 km range and industrial-grade durability.
MiniCPM launches a new series of robot models: MiniCPM-RobotManip and MiniCPM-RobotTrack, focusing on manipulation and tracking tasks respectively.
Xiaomi Robotics-1, a robot foundation model trained on 100,000 hours of real-world manipulation data, has been released on Hugging Face. The model can autonomously perform household tasks like folding laundry, loading a washer, and washing dishes.
OpenBMB releases MiniCPM-RobotTrack, a compact vision-language-action model built on MiniCPM4-0.5B for natural-language-conditioned target tracking, achieving 5+ FPS on unitree Go2, with quality-driven self-evolving data and efficient onboard inference.
An alpha version of a Real Steel-like robot has been unveiled, reminiscent of the movie's boxing robots.
A new personal robot called the T1, showcased at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva, can transform between a four-legged dog-like shape and a humanoid form, allowing it to navigate both smooth and rough terrain, climb steps, and follow users.
Xiaomi's humanoid robot achieved a 98% success rate at a self-piercing nut workstation, just 1% behind human operators, marking a significant milestone in its development.
UMA_Robots unveils Northstar, a robot with a human-like body and hands, designed to be approachable and competent for workplaces and homes.
AgiBot's G2 robot autonomously worked an 8-hour shift at a Chinese factory, handling an error on its own and achieving 100% success rate sorting over 3,000 units. The deployment is live, not staged, highlighting real-world progress in industrial robotics.