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    Humanoid Robots Play Tennis

    Galbot Robots complete 100 consecutive rallies against a tennis champion

    • Darius Popa
    • Aug 23, 2026
    Photo of Chinese robot running race

    A humanoid robot just beat Usain Bolt’s 100m record, and roboticists are unimpressed for good reason

    • Darius Popa
    • Aug 23, 2026
    Intelligent Police Unit R001 - a police robot in China

    China’s robot traffic police can do almost everything except stop you

    • Darius Popa
    • Aug 20, 2026
    Wang Xingxing, Unitree founder speaking at World Economic Forum

    Unitree’s founder says robots are nearing a ‘ChatGPT moment’

    • Alina Maria Stan
    • Aug 20, 2026
    Sebastian Thrun at KittyHawk in 2021

    Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup

    • Ana-Maria Stanciuc
    • Aug 19, 2026
    A silver Unitree humanoid robot stands surrounded by attendees at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona.

    Unitree, China’s humanoid robot champion, lists in Shanghai on 19 August after record demand

    • Ana-Maria Stanciuc
    • Aug 17, 2026
    Serve Robotics and Grubhub today announced a partnership bringing robot delivery to the Grubhub marketplace, beginning in Chicago, Los Angeles and Alexandria.

    Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery

    • Ana-Maria Stanciuc
    • Aug 17, 2026
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    LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T

    • Darius Popa
    • Aug 15, 2026
    Junyang Lin Profile Picture on X - @JustinLin610

    The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor

    • Cristian Dina
    • Aug 12, 2026
    ByteDance logo on office building

    China quietly won AI video. The bigger prize is teaching machines how the world works

    • Ana Maria Constantin
    • Aug 10, 2026

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