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Robots

May 2026

  • Honor's Lightning humanoid robot from team Qitian Dasheng (Great Sage) crosses the finish line during the 2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-marathon on April 19, 2026 in Beijing, China.

    Science Weekly
    Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment? – podcast

    Podcast17:07
  • A pink Coco delivery robot with an orange flag waits at a street corner by a crosswalk

    Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’

  • visitors meet with robots on stage at Galaxy Robot Park

    K-pop androids and automated artists: welcome to South Korea’s strange and ambitious robot theme park

  • A tall prototype robot stands on two legs in a lab.

    AI will help make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within a year, says Anthropic co-founder

  • I, robe-ot: the android monk working to reboot the faith of South Korea’s Buddhists

  • double quotation markRobo athletes miss the point of sport – there is no drama without emotion

    Emma John

April 2026

  • A humanoid robot pushes a cargo container during a media demonstration at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Monday

    Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

  • An engineer at the AgiBot factory in Shanghai, China, where the 5,000th mass-produced humanoid robot had rolled off the production line. Photograph: China News Service/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Inside China’s robotics revolution – podcast

    Podcast43:25
  • Woman poses with SUV

    ‘Look, no hands’: China chases the driverless dream at Beijing car show

  • A female professional player competes against autonomous robot

    AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players

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

  • double quotation markCongratulations to the Artemis II crew – but the case for sending astronauts into space is rapidly shrinking

    Martin Rees and Donald Goldsmith

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

March 2026

  • According to the White House, 'Fostering the Future Together will make available to countries of the world advanced technology, including artificial intelligence (Al), to assist children, educators, and parents, while also protecting them from online dangers.'

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

    Video1:14
  • Robot hand holding a heart for Valentine’s Day

    double quotation markEsther Perel provided couples therapy for a man and his AI ‘girlfriend’ and now I fear for the human race

    Emily Mulligan
  • An engineer at the AgiBot factory in Shanghai, China, where the 5,000th mass-produced humanoid robot had rolled off the production line

    The long read
    Inside China’s robotics revolution

  • Cortical Labs' CL1 biological computer displaying the video game Doom on screen.

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

  • Sci-fi surgery as doctor in UK directs robot to remove a prostate in Gibraltar

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

February 2026

  • Simon Wallis holds a kebab in a dining area with an illuminated GDK logo on the wall behind him

    ‘It’s survival of the fittest’: the UK kebab chain seeking an edge with robot slicers

    German Doner Kebab aims to open at 25 new sites this year with self-service screens and healthy options aimed at gen Z
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