21 May 2026
The SF gathering that summed up the ruthless class war billionaires are waging
Recently, my partner told me about a 1973 short story by Ursula K. Le Guin called “ The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas .” It’s about a utopian city where hedonistic residents live in peace, abundance and harmony among its rollicking meadows and hillsides. But these same euphoric citizens harbor a shameful secret that they refuse to acknowledge: In order to maintain their bountiful harvest, their…
21 May 2026
Job training for robots: How China is getting machines ready to join the workforce
Chinese technology consultant Kenneth Ren is training the workers of the future. The only thing is, they are not human. "We are essentially teaching robots to think on their own," Ren, an overseas solution expert with RealMan Intelligent Technology told CNBC recently at the Beijing-based Humanoid Robot Data Training Center.
21 May 2026
Humanoid Taps Bosch For Humanoid Robot Production
What’s not to trust about this guy? Humanoid Robotics European warehouse workers, it may be time to tighten up your resume. The robotics company Humanoid is partnering with Bosch to bring its HMND 01 industrial robots into mass production.
21 May 2026
Embodied AI steps out of the lab but scaling challenges remain
At Singapore’s ATxSummit tech conference, industry leaders noted that while embodied artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of robots is becoming more capable thanks to advances in hardware, simulation and sensors, broader adoption will depend on reliability, safety, cost, data availability and stronger governance standards.
21 May 2026
China's real-life 'transformer' mech is a giant humanoid robot that can switch from bounding on 4 legs to walking on 2
Unitree Unveils: GD01, A Manned Transformable Mecha, from $650,000 - YouTube Watch On Chinese engineers have built a mecha-style robot that can quickly transition from two legs to four while carrying people, resembling the power-loader exoskeletons from Aliens or the utility-style mobile suits from Japanese anime series Gundam SEED.
21 May 2026
Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong visits Shanghai Humanoid Robot Exhibition and Trading Center: media
According to China News, Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong visited Shanghai’s Humanoid Robot Innovation Incubator on May 21, 2026, getting a close look at cutting-edge advances in humanoid robotics and trying out a range of products.
21 May 2026
The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces
This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics . A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench, needs to send a command to the diagnostic device hanging at her belt. A logistics worker on a loading dock, gloves on, eyes on the pallet, needs to redirect a connected lift. A person using an assistive mobility device on a crowded street wants to nudge it…
21 May 2026
Tesla Bids Farewell to Model S & X, Eyes Autonomy Future
Tesla and Elon Musk took to X on May 21, 2026, to celebrate the Model S and Model X — two vehicles that didn't just sell well, but fundamentally changed what people believed an electric car could be. The tributes arrive as Tesla wraps up production of both models in Q2 2026, closing a chapter that began with the Model S launch in 2012 and redirecting the factory lines toward something very…
20 May 2026
Agibot claims 100% success rate in factory deployment as humanoid race shifts to real-world validation
Peng Chen, business development director at Agibot, used the robotics session of the 5th Mobis Mobility Day in Sunnyvale to make a pointed argument: the humanoid robotics industry has moved past prototype competition into a phase where real-world deployment results are the only metric that matters.
