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Decked out with a gimbal and shockingly good camera, the Robot Phone is one of the weirdest devices to come out of Honor. Even if you ignore the fact that it’s limited to China, Honor can’t keep up with demand.

Intel’s ‘Robotics Readiness Gap’ report has revealed that many large businesses are planning to implement a human-robot workforce within the next five years, with a majority expecting a doubling of operational output with a full-scale deployment.

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Spend more than a few minutes in the workshop at the CGN Lufeng Nuclear Power Project in Guangdong province, and it is hard to miss the robot dog checking fire safety.

Effective edge trimming has long been the bane of a lawnbot-maker’s life. After all, what good is a robot mower if you then have to go in with a side-trimmer to clean up all the lawn edges afterwards? Anthbot’s newest robo-mower — the R7 Series, on show at IFA 2026 — has an innovative solution.

Sam Altman just confirmed what OpenAI’s job listings had already been whispering: the company will “definitely” build a humanoid robot. Not just the AI brain that runs it. The actual physical body. Asked on the Sources podcast whether OpenAI’s robotics push meant data-center machines or humanoids, Altman said “both” — and that changed the stakes…

The push to develop and manufacture humanoid robots is accelerating, driven by efforts from numerous tech companies headquartered in China, the United States, Europe, Japan, and South Korea.

Roborock has solidified its position as a leader in robot vacuum technology, with models to fit virtually every consumer’s needs. Now, the company is expanding its portfolio with a midrange robot with some of the best Roborock features.

AI has earned an overwhelmingly negative perception over the last couple of years. At this point, is there any way for the technology to shed that stigma and become more approachable to the general public? One of the best attempts at that may be Hugging Face’s new tiny duck-like robot.